Joel Ducoste
Professor and Associate Dean for the Office of Faculty Development and Success
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Dr. Joel Ducoste, Ph.D., BCEEM, F.WEF, is the Associate Dean for the Office of Faculty Development and Success in the College of Engineering and Professor in the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department at North Carolina State University (NC State). He has more than 25 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). 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 the Water Environment Federation (WEF), Association of the Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Distinguished service award, and most recently the Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal WEF. Dr. Ducoste serves on the Editorial Advisory Board Member, Journal of Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, RSC, North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Advisory Board, and participates as a fellow in the NC Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program. 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. Dr. Ducoste also spent 5 years in industry at CH2M Hill as a senior process engineer and as an advance-manufacturing engineer at GE Aircraft Engines.
Education
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mechanical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mechanical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Description
Dr. Ducoste is interested in the operation, design, and optimization of drinking water and wastewater treatment processes. He achieves these goals by incorporating novel experimental techniques and validated numerical models in the analysis of unit processes. He has research experience in the operation and design of chemical mixing, flocculation, sedimentation, and chemical and UV disinfection processes in drinking water treatment. Dr. Ducoste is an expert in modeling water and wastewater treatment process fluid mechanics using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). He has developed CFD models for analysis of chemical and UV disinfection reactors, rapid mix chambers, flocculation basins, filtration systems, wastewater activated sludge systems, waste stabilization ponds, secondary clarifiers, and food waste systems. Dr Ducoste is also interested in modeling cellular regulatory and metabolic pathways and interfacing product formation to produce bioreactor models using CFD.
Publications
- Fat, Oil, and Grease Sewer Waste Management System: A Modeling Platform for Simulating the Formation of FOG Deposits in Sewer Networks
- Simmons, N. S., & Ducoste, J. J. (2024), JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, 150(4). https://doi.org/10.1061/JOEEDU.EEENG-7543
- Microbial community assembly in engineered bioreactors
- Smith, S. K., Weaver, J. E., Ducoste, J. J., & Reyes, III. (2024), Water Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121495
- Biotransformation of micropollutants in moving bed biofilm reactors under heterotrophic and autotrophic conditions
- Ahmadi, N., Abbasi, M., Torabian, A., Loosdrecht, M. C. M., & Ducoste, J. (2023), JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, 460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132232
- Growth of Dunaliella viridis in multiple cycles of reclaimed media after repeated high pH-induced flocculation and harvesting
- Lai, Y.-C., Ducoste, J. J., & de los Reyes III, F. L. (2023), SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164087
- Microplate-Based Cell Viability Assay as a Cost-Effective Alternative to Flow Cytometry for Microalgae Analysis
- Wang, D., de los Reyes III, F. L., & Ducoste, J. J. (2023), ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 57(50), 21200–21211. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c05675
- Quasi-Mechanistic 3D Finite Element Model Predicts Temperatures in a U.S. Landfill
- Hao, Z., Barlaz, M. A., & Ducoste, J. J. (2023, November 28), ACS ES&T ENGINEERING, Vol. 11. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.3c00289
- Effects of UV-C Disinfection on N95 and KN95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Reuse
- Bernardy, C., Elardo, N., Trautz, A., Malley, J., Wang, D., & Ducoste, J. (2022, September 21), APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, Vol. 9. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01221-22
- AEESP Endured Despite a Challenging Year
- Ducoste, J. J. (2021, September 1), ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE, Vol. 38, pp. 819–821. https://doi.org/10.1089/ees.2021.0269
- AEESP: A Collective Force to Achieve Educational and Research Heights in Environmental Engineering and Science
- Ducoste, J. J. (2021), Environmental Engineering Science, 38(1), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1089/ees.2020.0402
- Algae Dynamic and functional modeling of carbon metabolism in photosynthetic microalgae
- Wang, D., Lai, Y., Karam, A. L., de los Reyes, F. L., III, & Ducoste, J. J. (2021, June). , . Presented at the 10th Algal Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts Conference.