Rate My Professor Faisal Anwar

Professor Faisal Anwar serves as Professor of Civil Engineering in the School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, at Curtin University, Australia, a position he holds from January 2025 onward. Previously, he was Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering from December 2014 to December 2024. Anwar earned his BScEng, MScEng, and PhD in Civil Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan, in 2000. His earlier career encompasses a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Nagoya University and roles as lecturer, assistant professor, and associate professor of Water Resources Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Specializing in Water Engineering, his research encompasses urban hydrology, stormwater and greywater management, climate change impacts on water resources, hydrological modeling, floating treatment wetlands for nutrient and metal removal, computational fluid dynamics applications in stormwater ponds, precipitation forecasting with CMIP5 data and Facebook Prophet models, adsorption processes for pollutants, groundwater vulnerability to pesticides, and ecological engineering solutions.

Anwar maintains a prolific publication record with contributions to leading journals, including "Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Short-Circuiting Prevention Mechanisms in Floating Treatment Wetland Retrofitted Stormwater Pond" (2024), "Phytoremediation of Stormwater by Floating Treatment Wetland" (2023), "A simple method of bias correction for GCM derived decadal precipitation at catchment level" (2023), "Intercomparison of Drift Correction Alternatives for CMIP5 Decadal Precipitation" (2021), "Nutrients Adsorption onto Biochar and Alum Sludge for Treating Stormwater" (2020), "Relating Ocean-Atmospheric Climate Indices with Australian River Streamflow" (2017), "Adsorption Kinetics and Equilibrium Study of Nitrogen Species onto Radiata Pine (Pinus radiata) Sawdust" (2016), and "Characterisation of Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater by Statistical Methods" (2012). Recognized for teaching excellence, he received the Pro-Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award (2011), Curtin Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Awards (2012, 2023), a national citation for outstanding contributions to student learning (Australian Awards for University Teaching, 2013), Curtin Guild nomination for Teaching Excellence (2014), and the JSWE-IDEA Water Environment International Exchange Award. A Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng), National Engineering Register (NER) member, APEC Engineer, and IntPE(Aus), Anwar's work advances sustainable stormwater treatment and water resources planning amid climate challenges.