Keynote Presenters

Dr. Adel AbouJaoudé
Environmental Engineering Division Manager, Khatib & Alami Consolidated Engineering Company (KACEC), LEBANON

Dr. Adel AbouJaoudé is a Hydraulic Modeling Specialist and the Environmental Engineering Division Manager for Khatib & Alami Consolidated Engineering Company (KACEC). KACEC is a leading engineering and utility solutions provider based in the Middle East. Dr AbouJaoudé has actively contributed to the development of several scientific commercial software packages in the field of Hydrology, Groundwater, River Hydraulics, Water Networks, Water Quality and Surge Analysis. In parallel his experience covers the application of modeling tools in Water Resources Management, Highly Radioactive Wastes Repositories, Dewatering, Groundwater, Water and Sewerage Networks, Surge Analysis and Coastal Engineering. During his career, Dr Aboujaoude has acted as Project Manager over complex projects in the fields of Water Resources Master Planning, Water Transmission and Distribution, Research Project on Agricultural Pollution, Innovative Projects in field of Automation of Water Networks Design, Quantity Surveying, Optimization of Looped Water Networks, School Mapping, Water Supply Master Planning, Sewerage, and Dams.
Dr Aboujaoude has also an academic experience over 14 years in teaching Groundwater Hydraulics and Geographical Information Systems for Graduate and Undergraduate Engineering Students.

Stewart Sargent
Services Development Engineer, Marlborough District Council, NEW ZEALAND

Stewart W Sargent has more than 30 yrs of Professional Engineering and Computer Science experience including:  project, practice and technical management; and modelling studies.  He has worked in 4 countries and travelled extensively [including a 2.5 yr trans-global trip by road and ship thru 40 countries].  He has: been a director and branch manager in large consulting engineering practice,  operated his own Technical Computing consulting practice, worked as an IS Manager,  and in Local Government. His engineering includes all piped waters, plus irrigation, rivers, hydrology and groundwater. He has developed and used modelling, mathematical & mapping tools all through his career including: systems engineering for a Canadian Hydro system,  modelling for the entire city of Calgary (in the days when you first had to write the software),  dynamic and linear programming for operations research, modelling, modellin  river system in Asia,  water systems in Australia,  & close to 100  water supply, irrigation, and collection systems  in New Zealand. He has also worked as GIS Consultant in Thailand & has development financial models and management systems for small business.  He has some challenging and encouraging views on professional responsibility, and the place [& misplacement ] of modelling. Stewart is a member of the NZ Institute of Professional Engineers and the NZ Computer Society (and previously;  the same in Australia, & Professional Engineering in Canada).  [He is also holds a commercial marine licence and when not engineering water – sails on water, in a large sailing catamaran].  He has written numerous papers on philosophy, management and application of computer technologies. A recent paper relating to mathematically analysing loading sequences  for waste water system engineering, won a bronze award for modelling and a silver award for Hynds Paper of the Year from the New Zealand Water and Waste Assoc (NZWWA).

Dr. M L Kansal
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, INDIA

Dr. M L Kansal, presently working as Professor in the department of Water Resources Development & Management at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee (India), is a Civil Engineering graduate who post graduated in Water Resources Engineering.  He obtained his Ph.D. from Delhi University in 1997.  He also obtained the Post Graduate Diploma in Operations Management.  Previously, he served Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi (India) from 1991-2001 as Lecturer (1991-96) and as Assistant Professor (1996-2001) before joining IIT Roorkee in 2001 as Associate Professor.  He has served as scientist/ research fellow at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra (formerly REC) (India) (1986-89), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi (1989-1990), National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) Roorkee (1990-91) as well.  He has guided research at post-graduate and graduate levels.  He has published about 65 research papers and a book.  He has guided 4 Ph.D.s, 30 M.Tech. Dissertations, and 15 B.Tech. projects.  He has got best paper awards from Indian Building Congress, and Indian Water Works Association, and acted as reviewer for American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), IEEE, Reliability Engg. System Safety, Journal of Water Management (UK), Water Policy-IWA, and Israel Science Foundation, etc. and acted as Editor of the Journal of Indian Water Resources Society.  He has visited various countries like USA, France, Turkey, Iran, and Nepal as International Expert and Visiting Professor.  Dr. Kansal acted as International expert for RCUWM of UNESCO and visited ENGEES, Strasbourg (France) during June-July 2008 as Visiting Professor.  He is a Life fellow member of various professional bodies, executive committee member, and consultant to various organizations.

Erick Heath
Vice President, MWH Soft, California, USA

Mr. Heath is the Vice President and Director of Sales and Client Relationships for MWH Soft and is located in Pasadena, CA. He has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Oregon Statue University and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from California State University: Sacramento. He is also a registered Civil Engineer in California and Nevada. He is a member of the American Water Works Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, and Society of American Military Engineers. Mr. Heath has over twenty four years of experience in Civil Engineering including design of treatment plants, water storage tanks, pump stations, and pipelines. He also has a construction inspection background. In addition, he has a wide and deep level of expertise in water and sewer network modeling and master planning. He is intimately familiar with GIS, hydraulic, water quality, and energy management issues as they relate to water and sewer systems and regulations. Mr. Heath is published in various professional journals and publications and continually provides informational lectures on topics ranging from modeling and master planning to integration of GIS data across a multitude of platforms.

Uttam Saha
Coordinator System Modelling, Infrastructure Planning, Gold Coast Water, AUSTRALIA

Uttam Saha is the Coordinator System Modelling, Infrastructure Planning for Gold Coast Water. Uttam has a degree in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Environmental Engineering (Water and Wastewater) from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. With over 20 years experience, Uttam has gained a high level of knowledge and technical expertise in wastewater, water and recycled water network hydraulic model development, system performance and optional analysis, network optimisation, treatment process design and research. As the leader of the Gold Coast Water System Modelling section, Uttam is responsible for managing potable water, recycled water and wastewater network modelling projects for Gold Coast Water. With over 3000 kms of water mains, 3000 kms of wastewater mains, 600 pump stations and 74 water reservoirs, Uttam’s presentation will focus on how network modelling has been a crucial component of the sustainable planning and management of Gold Coast Water’s water, recycled water and wastewater distribution networks, underpinned by a number of innovative projects.

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