Suresh Sharma, Ph.D., P.E., BC.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE, who over the last 24 years has been contributing to the civil engineering profession in terms of professional work and research, has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Sharma has received about 16 external grants from federal and state agencies to conduct high-quality research in lakes, reservoirs, marshes, streams, and rivers, which is published in various journals on water resources engineering. He offers various civil engineering courses for undergraduate and graduate level students, and is published in ASCE journals such as Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Natural Hazard Reviews, and other prestigious journals. He has authored 30 peer-review articles including book chapters. He has also given 67 presentations at local, regional, and international conferences. At least 17 graduate students have graduated under his supervision, he is currently supervising seven others, and he has engaged at least seven undergraduate students in his research. He was a committee member of at least four graduate students as well as an external examiner of Ph.D. students in India.
He organized the ORBCRE conference in 2016 and 2022 as a co-chair. He served as vice chair/chair and past chair in the Hydraulic Fracturing Committee of EWRI. He served on an NSF panel review and reviewed various proposals and journal articles. His research widely expands from watershed to lake, stream/reservoirs, and tributaries scale using data-driven and distributed/semi-distributed models. More importantly, the research includes hydrologic, hydraulic, and water-quality modeling by establishing monitoring sites in the field. Over the last several years, Sharma has developed a strong partnership with several organizations, including various Cities, Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Watershed groups, Storm Water Districts, Conservation Districts, the regional USACE, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
Sharma wrote a proposal in collaboration with these agencies to leverage their support for collecting the data, monitoring the sites, and conducting water resources and environmental engineering research. He worked on funded projects closely with all important personnel from city mayors to emergency flood managers and project directors of the watershed groups to conduct civil engineering research while engaging graduate and undergraduate students to solve real-world water resource problems.
Sharma is a registered professional engineer in Ohio. He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 2000 and a master’s degree in the same in 2005 from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. After college he worked some five years as a civil engineer, concentrating on rural roads, buildings, water supply, etc. He joined Auburn University, in Georgia, in 2008 to acquire his doctorate. After working as a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University for a year, he became a tenure-track faculty member at Youngstown State University in 2013. He is an ASCE Exceed Teaching workshop graduate of Class 2022.
