Rate My Professor Joel Ducoste

A board-certified environmental engineer, Dr. Ducoste specializes in modeling water and wastewater treatment processes using computational fluid dynamics. His research interests encompass physico-chemical processes in water treatment, water/wastewater process optimization, wastewater sewer collection system sustainability, renewable energy from waste, plant biosystems engineering, solid waste process modeling, and disinfection of pathogenic aerosols. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications, including "Fat, Oil, and Grease Sewer Waste Management System: A Modeling Platform for Simulating the Formation of FOG Deposits in Sewer Networks" (2024, Journal of Environmental Engineering), "Microbial community assembly in engineered bioreactors" (2024, Water Research), and "Measurement and Temperature Prediction from Ash Disposed in Landfills Using a Quasi-Adiabatic Flow Reactor" (2024, ACS ES&T Engineering). Ducoste has earned the NSF CAREER Award (2001), Fulbright Fellowship (2006), Fellowship in the Water Environment Federation (2020) and Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (2023), and the WEF Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal (2021). He has served on multiple EPA advisory boards, was President of AEESP from 2020 to 2021, and currently sits on the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists as well as the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology.