New Faculty

PAUL V. DOSKEY
Paul V. Doskey joins the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science as a professor. He comes to Michigan Tech from Argonne National Laboratory.

Doskey holds a PhD and an MS in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Chemistry from DePaul University.

He has peer-reviewed numerous publications, participated in many conference proceedings, written a chapter for three different books, written two technical reports and participated in more than five dozen presentations since 1987.

He has received over $3.6 million of support over the past two decades from multiple organizations, including the Argonne National Laboratory, the Department of Energy, the Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium and the Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources.

He received the Senior Chemist of the Year award from DePaul University, the Chandler-Misener Award from the International Association for Great Lakes Research and was named a postdoctoral scholar from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

He is an adjunct science team member of the Atmospheric Science Program with the Department of Energy, a Senior Fellow of the Center for Environmental Science with the University of Chicago and ANL, and a member of the Air and Waste Management Association, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union and the International Association for Great Lakes Research.

DEVIN K. HARRIS
Devin K. Harris joins the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as an assistant professor.

Harris holds PhD and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida.

He has conducted research on Sandwich Plate System (SPS) for use in bridges and ultra-high performance reinforced concrete. He is currently interested in researching the repair and rehabilitation of structural members with externally bonded fiber reinforced polymers.

He was an instructor for Reinforced Concrete Design 1 at Virginia Tech and a guest lecturer for the course Finite Element Analysis of Structures and the Virginia Tech European Bridge Seminar.

He is a member of the American Concrete Institute, the American Institute of Steel Construction, the National Society of Black Engineers and the Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professional Development Leadership Team.

He worked for the Exxon Company as a project engineer. After that, he worked for the ExxonMobile Development Company as a project engineer and senior project engineer. He analyzed the performance, expenditures for projects and trends of oil drilling and forecasted expenditures and projects.

FAWEN (JAMES) ZHENG
Fawen (James) Zheng joins the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as a research assistant professor. He comes to Michigan Tech from PBS & J.

Zheng holds a PhD in Atmospheric, Environmental and Water Resources from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, an MS in Hydrological Engineering from the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Netherlands, and ME and BS degrees in Hydrology and Water Resources from Hohai University, China.

He has published numerous articles in many referred journals, including the Journal of Earth Science, the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and the Journal of the American Water Association.

He has presented at conferences in Seattle; West Palm Beach, Fla.; and Orlando, Fla.

His professional work experience includes hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, pollutant loading estimation and simulation for existing and future conditions, location and size determination of developed system components, water quality simulation and watershed delineation.

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