Environmental Engineering Conference


Planet Earth

75th Annual Environmental Engineering Conference

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Kansas Memorial Union
1301 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045 (map and directions)

Thank you for your support of the 75th Annual Environmental Engineering Conference! Save the date and make plans to attend the 76th Annual Environmental Engineering Conference! Join colleagues and a host of industry experts for an action-packed one-day event exploring the latest developments and hottest topics in the environmental engineering field. Earn up to 6.5 PDHs!

Questions? Want to be an event sponsor? Email the CEAE conference team at envconf@ku.edu for more information.


Agenda

Full agendas with speaker bios and abstracts will be provided at the conference. A PDF version of this document will also be linked on this webpage as soon as it is finalized. See a brief outline of the day on our Conference Agenda webpage.
 


75th Annual Environmental Engineering Conference Student Poster Awards

Congratulations to the following students for their placement in the Student Poster Awards!

Sophie TerianFirst Place
Sophie Terian
"Spring Ammonium Dynamics Across a Wetland-River Network in the Agricultural Midwest"

 

 

Emma RussinSecond Place
Emma Russin & Benjamin Lofland
"Synthesizing Drinking Water Distribution Networks from Readily Available Data"

 

 

Joao PoliThird Place
João Poli
"A Clean Future for Kansas: Converting Sewage Sludge into Valuable Products" 

 

 

See more photos from the conference on our Facebook page!


Professional Development Hours

The Environmental Engineering Conference offers a total of 6.5 Professional Development Hours for full attendance of the conference and 7 Professional Development Hours for those who attended and submitted a form ranking our student poster presenters

PDH certificates were sent to attendees needing PDHs on April 17, 2025. If you have not received your PDH certificate, please contact us at envconf@ku.edu.


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Conference Organization Committee

Robynn Andracsek, Providence Engineering
James Curry, EPA
Kazi Fattah, KU CEAE
Amy Hansen, KU CEAE
Justin Hutchison, KU CEAE
Jeanette Klamm, APWA
Ted Peltier, KU CEAE
Stephen Randtke, KU CEAE
Julian Sandino, Jacobs
Nishit Shetty, KU CEAE
Tom Stiles, KDHE
Belinda Sturm, KU CEAE
Emily Tummons, Black & Veatch
Dan Wilkus, Evergy
Aaron Witt, JCW
 

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