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BioSketch: James H. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., DEE
Dr. Johnson has served his entire professional academic career at Howard University. He is a professor of Civil Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences. Prior to this appointment, he was the chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and interim associate vice president for Research. Dr. Johnson received his B.S. from Howard University, M.S. from the University of Illinois and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. He has taught Department of Civil Engineering undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of environmental engineering including hazardous waste management, treatment and disposal.
Dr. Johnson's research interests include treatment and reuse of wastewater sludges and the treatment of hazardous substances. He has conducted research on refining composting technology for the treatment of contaminated soils, chemical oxidation and cometabolic transformation of explosive contaminated wastes, biodegradation of fuel-contaminated groundwater, the evaluation of environmental policy issues in relation to minorities and the development of environmental curricula.
He serves as associate director of the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic Center for Hazardous Substance Research which is a USEPA Center serving Regions 3 and 5, whose participating schools include The University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Howard University. Dr. Johnson is a member of the National Research Council's Board on Radioactive Waste Management, NRC's Committee on the Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes, a division review committee of Los Alamos National Laboratory and serves on several university and private sector advisory committees.
He currently serves as principal investigator of ECSEL. ECSEL (Engineering Coalition of Schools for Excellence and Leadership in Education) is a seven-member consortium of which Howard is the lead institution. (Other members are CCNY, MIT, Morgan State U., U. of Maryland, Washington U. and Penn State.) ECSEL is funded by NSF to improve engineering education by restructuring the curriculum and graduating more women and minorities in engineering.
Dr. Johnson has published over 40 scholarly articles, contributed to three books and coedited two books including one on hazardous waste. Membership in professional organizations include American Association of Environmental Engineering Professors, American Water Works Association, fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Engineering Education and Tau Beta Pi. Dr. Johnson is a registered professional engineer in the District of Columbia and a diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers.
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