Dr. Sanjay Tewari actively engages in pedagogical and scholarly activities as an Associate Teaching Professor at the Cooperative Engineering Program of Missouri University of Science & Technology and Missouri State University. At Missouri S&T, he is housed in the department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering S&T. He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Surat, India; M. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India; and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Dr. Tewari has been awarded multiple teaching awards and honors. He is involved with student-related activities of various professional organizations such as the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), and the American Chemical Society (ACS). In addition, Dr. Tewari has a strong interest in engineering education-related activities. He enjoys teaching various core classes and mentoring students and student engineering societies as a faculty advisor. Most of Dr. Tewari's teaching and research efforts are focused on environmental engineering and foundational civil engineering areas. Specifically, his focus is on drinking water quality, challenges related to wastewater treatment, sustainability, and resiliency. His recent efforts have been focused on a variety of separation processes such as physical, chemical, biological, and electrochemical. However, currently, he is more focused on capacitive deionization, electrokinetic, and electrocoagulation for improving water quality and better treatment of wastewater from industrial as well as municipal sources.  Recently funded projects have been in the area of pollution prevention and sustainability, application of Geographic Information System to environmental management, and resiliency of infrastructure. In addition to his involvement in academics, Dr. Tewari also works with AARC Consultants/Group as a consultant and solves problems and challenges in the field of risk/resilience related to infrastructure around us.

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