Dr. Joel Ducoste

Joel Ducoste, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Success. As the Associate Dean, Dr. Ducoste provides leadership in faculty reappointment, promotion and tenure, the post-tenure review process, workshop and coaching opportunities, and the recognition of awards to support faculty success in the different realms of faculty responsibilities.

Dr. Ducoste is a board certified environmental engineering member through eminence with the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists and is a recognized expert in modeling water and wastewater treatment processes using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). With over 200 peer reviewed publications and research reports, Dr. Ducoste current research interests include physico-chemical processes in water treatment, computational fluid dynamics modeling, water/wastewater process optimization, wastewater sewer collection system sustainability, renewable energy, plant biosystems engineering, solid waste process modeling, and disinfection of pathogenic aerosols.

He has served on EPA Science Advisory Boards (2009-2018) and the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors Safe and Sustainable Water Resources committee (2018-2022). He was elected to serve on the Board of AEESP (2017-2020) and was also the 2020-2021 President of AEESP. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists.

Dr. Ducoste joined NC State after 5 years in industry at CH2M Hill as a senior process engineer and as an advance-manufacturing engineer at GE Aircraft Engines.   

Currently: Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement in the College of Engineering and Professor in the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department at North Carolina State University (NCSU). 

Formerly: Assistant Dean, Graduate Student Advancement, College of Engineering North Carolina State University.

Education: (1) 1996 – Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,  (2) 1989 – Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (3) 1988 – B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute