Instructors

Navneet Magon Anand is a design strategist, consultant and researcher with a background in Architecture and Sustainability. She is the founder of Design Veritas, a design strategy consultancy and creative studio advocating for human and environmental sustainability and wellbeing. Her research, which focuses on intentional culture design, has a human centered approach beyond the four walls and is built on a core foundation of innovation, sustainability and wellbeing. She is a graduate of McGill University’s School of Architecture and has her MBA in Green Building and Sustainability. Her ...

Principal Engineer at Tighe & Bond. He specializes in water and wastewater treatment technologies with a focus on industrial wastewater treatment, process improvement, waste minimization, EH&S compliance, and sustainable manufacturing strategies.  Dr. Bates is an adjunct professor teaching graduate courses in Industrial Waste (CE 563), Hazardous Waste Treatment (CE 567), Biosystems in Environmental Engineering (CE 562) and specialty courses (CE 590) in Green Engineering, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Emerging Trends in Corporate Sustainability.Wayne holds engineering degrees from ...

 Brian O'Rourke is a practicing attorney with more than 25 years of experience in construction and engineering law, involving civil litigation, arbitration, public and private procurement, contract negotiation and drafting. Examples of his claim and litigation work include acting as lead counsel in the representation of a large pharmaceutical client in a multi-million dollar litigation regarding a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility.  He participated as attorney in several large multi-million dollar construction-related trials. His work also includes acting as lead counsel ...

Teaching is a passion of mine because much of the power industry is based on experiential data that you can't find in textbooks.  Our industries thrive when the collected experience of a workforce is passed down from one generation to the next and that is what I strive to teach in my classes.  I have worked for over a decade in the power industry and have been very fortunate to experience a wide variety of work.  My hope is that some of my knowledge and experience will help a young engineer build their professional credentials to help them excel at their chosen field.

Teaching is the most important aspect of my profession. I have strived to teach the full spectrum of college offerings addressing freshman students through Ph.D. students. The project philosophy is a fundamental pillar of the WPI education. I encourage and promote this ideal in all of the projects that I advise. Students who bring a project to fruition gain more knowledge and understanding than most conventional instructional modes. I am committed to MQP and IQP activities. Students completing their projects under my advise have received dozens of awards and honors in the forms of ...