Graduate Seminar
Information
“Water:
The
Conduit of Life”
Dr. Joe Manou
Institute for Water
Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers
Engineering Building,
Room 3507
Date: Tuesday, October 2nd
at 6pm
Abstract
This is a discussion of the importance of water domestically and internationally.
Bio
Dr Joe Manous serves
as a Group
Manager and the Future Directions Team Leader for the
Institute for Water
Resources, US Army
Corps of Engineers, but has been on part-time detail to
the Office of the
Assistant Secretary
of the Army for Civil Works since April 2009. Dr Manous is
a civil engineer
specializing in the
areas of water resources and environmental security issues
associated with
water. He recently
served as an Academy Professor at the United States
Military Academy at
West Point from
2000 through 2008, where he taught courses in
environmental
engineering, water
resources, and environmental security. He retired from active
duty in the grade of
Colonel in 2008
with 28+ years of service in the US Army Corps of
Engineers.
Dr Manous has been
actively involved
with the "professional" aspects of the engineering
profession for almost
20 years
particularly through his involvement with the American Society
of
Civil Engineers where
he chaired the
ASCE Committee on Professional Practice, Post-
Hurricane Katrina
Critical
Infrastructure Guidance Task Force, and Paraprofessional Task
Committee. He is also
a member of the
Executive Board of the National Institute for
Engineering Ethics
(NIEE).
Dr Manous is a
graduate of the Georgia
Institute of Technology (BCE, Civil Engineering), North
Georgia College (BS,
Physics),
University of Illinois (MS, Civil Engineering), US Army War
College (Masters of
Strategic
Studies), and University of Minnesota (PhD, Environmental
Engineering). He is
active in several
professional engineering organizations to include ASCE,
Society of American Military
Engineers, National Society of Professional Engineers, Order
of the