Dr. Steven Chapra, F.ASCE

Mentor & Outside Consultant

Dr. Chapra is the Emeritus Professor & Louis Berger Chair in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Tufts University and a senior advisor for KF2 Consulting. Before joining the faculty at Tufts, Dr. Chapra worked for EPA, NOAA, Texas A&M, the University of Colorado, and Imperial College London. His general research interests focus on surface water-quality modeling, and advanced computer applications in environmental engineering. His research has been used in several significant decision-making contexts including the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. He has published over 200 papers, reports and software packages, and has authored nine textbooks including Surface Water-Quality Modeling, the standard text in that area. Finally, he received outstanding teacher awards at Texas A&M University (1986), the University of Colorado (1992), and Tufts University (2011, 2018), and has taught over 90 workshops on water-quality modeling on every continent except Antarctica.

Steve was originally drawn to environmental engineering because of his love of the outdoors. He is an avid fly fisherman, hiker and a long-time member of the Sierra Club. His primary professional goal is to apply engineering, science, mathematics and computing to maintain a high-quality environment in a sustainable and cost-efficient fashion and to share this knowledge with others through his teaching and writings with a special focus on developing countries..

Dr. Chapra has served in visitng academic/research appointments for the University of Brescia, University of Saskatchewan, Michigan Technological University, University of Michigan, University of Washington, Imperial College London, University of Reading, University of Michigan, Duke University, NIWA New Zealand..