Contact

Email: mkarim4@kennesaw.edu

Office Hours:
Please see the sign in my office door for the office hours

Degrees

Academic Degree:

Ph.D. Civil/Environmental Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, August 2000

M.Sc. Civil/Environmental Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology (BUET), June 1992

B.Sc. Civil Engineering, BUET, December 1989

 

Professional Experience:

08/2021 – to date: Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (SPCEET), Kennesaw State University, Marietta Campus.

02/2020 – 07/2021: Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental  Engineering, Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (SPCEET), Kennesaw State University, Marietta Campus.

10/2019 – 01/2020: Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Interim Department Chair, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, SPCEET, Kennesaw State University, Marietta Campus.

08/2017 – 09/2019: Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Assistant Department Chair, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, SPCEET, Kennesaw State University, Marietta Campus.

08/2016 – 07/2017: Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Founding Program Director, BS in Environmental Engineering (BSEnvE) Program, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, SPCEET, Kennesaw State University, Marietta Campus.

05/2015 – 07/2016: Founding Program Director, BS in Environmental Engineering (BSEnvE) Program, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, SPCEET, Kennesaw State University, Marietta Campus.

08/2011– 07/2016: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (SPCEET), Kennesaw State University (the then Southern Polytechnic State University-SPSU), Marietta Campus.

06/2012 – 07/2012: Faculty Research Fellow, Environmental Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineers Research and Development Center (ERDC), Water Experiment Station (WES), 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180, USA.

08/2009 – 07/2011: Environmental Engineer Senior, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ), Richmond, Virginia, USA.

01/2008 – 07/2009: Assistant Professor, Trine University, Angola, Indiana, USA,.

03/2002 – 12/2007: Environmental Engineer Senior, VDEQ, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

10/2001 – 02/2002: Applications Programmer II, ALTEL Information Services, Twinsburg, Ohio, USA.

05/2001 – 09/2001: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh.

02/1999 – 04/2001: Applications Programmer I & II, ALTEL Information Services, Twinsburg, Ohio, USA.

01/1994 – 08/1995: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh.

10/1992 –12/1993: Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh.

12/1989 – 09/1992: Research Lecturer, Institute of Flood Control & Drainage Research (IFCDR – renamed later as Institute of Water and Flood Management - IWFM), BUET, Bangladesh.

Part-Time:

10/2011–12/2015: Senior Staff Engineer, Geosyntec Consultants, Inc., Kennesaw, Georgia, USA.

10/2010–07/2011: Adjunct Faculty, Stratford University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

08/2008–05/2009: Adjunct Faculty, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), Indiana, USA.

08/2008–07/2009: Project Engineer, Solid Waste Services, Inc. (SWS), Reston, Virginia, USA.

08/2003–05/2008: Affiliate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

08/2000–12/2000: Adjunct Faculty, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

09/1996–12/1998: Teaching Assistant, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

 

Professional Services:  

Department Services:

Department Promotion and Tenure Committee Chair (P&T), 08/2021 - to date

Curriculum Committee Chair, 01/2015 - 09/2019.

Curriculum Committee Member, 07/2020 - to date

Department Promotion and Tenure Committee (P&T), 08/2018 - 07/2020

Department Faculty Council (DFC) Chair, 08/2016 - 07/2017

Department Faculty Council (DFC) Member, 08/2017 - 07/2018

Department Adhoc ABET Accreditation Committee Chair, 08/2016 - 07/2019

Department Adhoc ABET Accreditation Committee Member, 08/2019 - to date

Department On-line Adhoc Committee Chair, 08/2015 - 07/2017

Department On-line Adhoc Committee Member, 08/2017 - 12/2019.

Department Research Adhoc Committee Member, 08/2015 - to date

College Services:

College Faculty Council (CFC) Chair, 08/2016 - 07/2019.

College R2 Roadmap Graduate Cimmittee, 01/2019 - 10/30/2019

SPCEET Research Seminar Committee, 10/2019 - 12/2020 

College Curriculum Committee (CCC), 08/2019 - to date

University Services:

Graduate Policy and Curriculum Committee (GPCC) Member (Executive Committee Member), 08/2015 - to date

Outstanding Global Achievement Award Committee Member, 01/2015 - 05/2020

Outstanding Teaching Award Committee Member, 08/2020 - to date

University Faculty Committee on Global Engagement (UFCGE) Member, 08/2016 - 05/2021

Quality Enhancment Plan (QEP) Selection Committee Member, 11/2015 - 05/2016

Professional/Community Services:

NSF Review Panel Member (CBET, S-STEM, IUSE etc.), 2012 - to date

USEPA Review Panel Member, 2021 - to date

USDoE Review Panel Member, 2021 - to date

ABET PEV for Civil Engineering Program (through ASCE), 2014 - to date

ABET PEV for Environmental Engineeirng Program (through AAEES), 2021 - to date

Research Division Secretary, ASEE Southeast Section, 2022-2023.

Civil Engineering (CE) Division Vice Chair, ASEE Southeast Section, 2022-2023.

Civil Engineering (CE) Division Secretary, ASEE Southeast Section, 2021-2022.

Civil Engineering (CE) Division Vice-Chair, ASEE Southeast Section, 2019-2020.

CE Division Chair, ASEE Southeast Section, 2016-2017.

CE Division Program Chair, 2017 ASEE Zone II Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2-5, 2017.

Editorial Board Member for 3 Journals - Soil and Sediment Contamination: an International Journal (2014 - to date); Annals of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2016 - to date); Insight - Civil Engineering (2018 - to date). 

Served as a reviewer for Sabbatical fellowships for laureates of the MISTRZ (MASTER) programme for Poland Govt., 2019.

Served as an external reviewer for PhD dissertation for Trivbhuvan University, Nepal, 2018.

Served as a reserach proposal reviewer for Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NOW), 2016.

Future City Competition Judge, 2013 - to date

PSLSAMP Conference Judge, 2012 - to date

Science Olympiad Judge, 2014 - to date 

 

Professional Registration:

Professional Engineer (PE) for the State of Ohio (E-67135, inactive since January 2010), Commonwealth of Virginia (0402-037834), and State of Georgia (040550), USA.

OSHA 40-hr certification, 2003

 

Editorial/Journal Reviewer:

Editoririal Board Member - Soil and Sediment Contamination: an International Journal (2014 - to date)

Editorial Board Member - Annals of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2016 - to date)

Editorial Board Member - Insight - Civil Engineering (2018 - to date)

Reviwer:

  • Environmental Technology
  • Journal of Chemical Engineering
  • International Journal of Environmental Engineering
  • Internal Journal of Environment and Waste Management
  • Soil and Sediment Contamination: An International Journal
  • The Frontiers: Environmental Health
  • Current Pollution Research
  • Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
  • The Pages of Scientific of Soil and Water
  • Journal of Waste Management
  • Journal of Advances in Chemistry
  • International Journal of Water and Wastewater Treatment
  • Annals of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Environmental Science: An Indian Journal
  • Fermentation
  • Insight - Civil Engineering
  • MDPI - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • MDPI - Sustainability 
  • Frontiers - Several Journals

 

Professional Membership:

Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) by American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES) (BCEE.AAEES)

Fellow – American Society of Civil Engineers (F.ASCE).

Member – American Society of Engineering Education (M.ASEE).

Fellow – Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (F.IEB).

Life Member – National Oceanographic and Maritime Institute (LM.NOAMI).

Member – Order of the Engineer.

 

Others:

ABET EAC PEV - Environmental Engineering Program (2021 - to date)

ABET EAC PEV - Civil Engineering Program (2014 - to date)

NSF CBET, DUE S-STEM and IUSE - Panel Reviewer (2012 - to date)

USEPA - Panel Reviewer (2021 - to date)

USDoE - Panel Reviewer (2021 - to date)

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