About the Symposium

2024 Speakers

For this year’s Symposium, we are delighted to host keynote speaker Damon S. Williams, PE, BCEE, F.ASCE, Managing Member, DSW Water Strategies, LLC and the 2023-2024 AEESP Distinguished Lecturer Professor Elizabeth A. Edwards, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Organizers

The Symposium is traditionally organized and hosted by the students in CEE 595G, a professional development seminar course taken by the Civil and Environmental Engineering students in the EES MS degree program. This is an excellent opportunity to meet and interact with other students, faculty, and alumni in the environmental engineering community. Students present their research or special projects through oral or poster presentations.

2024 Organizing Class

  • Lillian Burritt
  • Hanze Dong
  • Nehal Jain
  • Oluchi Nweke
  • Mukesh Pulaganti Venkatappa
  • Jeethendra Uppala

Advising Faculty : Sotiria Koloutsou-Vakakis

Administrative Support: Suzanne Giesler

Past EES Symposiums

Previous Symposium Keynote Speakers

  • Prof. Randall Martin, Raymond R. Tucker Distinguished Professor, Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis & Dr. Brian Shoener, Ph.D., P.E.*, Certified Data Analyst, AI/ML & Digital Water Applications Development Leader, Operations | Engineering & Development Services, *Licensed in Illinois, Black & Veatch (2023).
  • Prof. Bruce Fouke, Professor in Geology, Microbiology, and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign & Dr. Jess Brown, Senior Vice President, R&D Practice Director at Carollo Engineers (2022).
  • Prof. Pratim Biswas, Dean of Engineering at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida & Dawn Taffler, One Water Practice Leader and Vice President at Kennedy Jenks Consultants (2021).
  • Prof. Lutgarde Raskin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan & Dr. Issam Najm, Founder and President of WQTS (2019).
  • Prof. Charles N. Haas, LD Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering.  Head – Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, Drexel University (2018).
  • Prof. Menachem Elimelech, Roberto Goizueta Professor of Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Yale University (2017).
  • Dr. Carlos Campos-Callao, Senior VP Research and Development of Suez Environment (2016).
  • Dr. Ali H. Omar, Physical Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center (2015).
  • Prof. Kimberly Jones, Howard University (2014).
  • Damon S. Williams (2013), PE, BCEE, F.ASCE
  • Dr. Jess Brown, Ph.D., PE (2012).
  • Dr. Kathryn Mallon, PE (2011).

ABOUT EES AT UIUC

The Environmental Engineering and Science (EES) group within CEE at Illinois prepares students for the increasingly critical role of addressing the world’s challenges of air, land, and water pollution. Sustainable engineering practices for both developed and developing societies are the primary focus of the EES program.

Learn more about EES at UIUC here.