Joel Ducoste, Ph.D., Principal Engineer, Modeling and Simulations at XCMR, is also Professor in the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Success. He has over 27 years of Environmental Engineering experience. Dr. Ducoste is a board certified environmental engineering member 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 190 peer reviewed publications and research reports, his 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.
Dr. Ducoste has received a number of awards including an NSF Career Award, a Fulbright fellowship, Visiting Professorships at Ghent University, South East University, and Yangzhou University, NC State mentoring awards, elected Fellow of both the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, and received the WEF Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal.
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 also the 2020-2021 President of AEESP. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. He received a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
After 5 years in industry at CH2M Hill as a senior process engineer and as an advance-manufacturing engineer at GE Aircraft Engines he joined NC State.
