Dr. James Mihelcic is a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan). He co-directs the Michigan Tech Sustainable Futures Institute and directs the Master’s International program in Civil & Environmental Engineering.

He is a member of Engineers without Borders-USA and an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP).

Dr. Mihelcic was awarded the AEESP-Wiley Interscience Award for Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Engineering & Science Education and has also received his Department’s Outstanding Faculty award and was a finalist for the Michigan Tech Distinguished Teaching Award. He has devoted extensive professional time in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Vanuatu working on community-based engineering projects. Dr. Mihelcic is also the lead author of the textbook Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering (John Wiley & Sons, 1999) that has been translated into Spanish as Fundamentos de Ingenieria Ambiental (Limusa Wiley, 2001). Dr. Mihelcic has studied environmental policy as an AAAS-U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Fellow and is currently writing a book titled “Sustainable Development Engineering: Engineering appropriate solutions for the developing world.”