Biography

Dr. Steven Chapra, F.ASCE, F.AEESP, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louis Berger Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is an environmental engineer and a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Tufts University outside Boston. He grew up in New York City and was educated at Manhattan College and the University of Michigan. Aside from Tufts, he has worked for the U.S. EPA, NOAA and Texas A&M University and the University of Colorado. He was fortunate enough to spend the 1997 and 1998 school years in London at Imperial College and the University of Reading. He was originally drawn to environmental engineering because of my love of the outdoors. He is avid fly fisherman and hiker. His primary research focus is surface water-quality modelling, and my primary professional goal is to apply engineering, mathematics and computing to maintain a high quality environment in a wise and cost-efficient fashion. He feels blessed to have found a profession where he can mould his love of mathematics and science with my passion for the natural environment. In addition, He reaches it with others through his teaching and writing.

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Research Interest

Water Quality Modeling, Numerical Methods, Advanced Computer Applications in Environmental Engineering