Mohamed Dahab is the 2005-2006 President-Elect of the Water Environment Federation (WEF), an international organization of water quality professionals headquartered in Alexandria, Va.

He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Nebraska and director of the university’s Environmental Engineering Program.

A WEF member since 1975, Mohamed served as WEF director from 2000-2003 and was a member of the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 WEF Executive Committees (now Board of Trustees). He has worked extensively with the Federation’s student activities including establishing a WEF student chapter at the University of Nebraska in 1997 and serving as Vice-Chair of WEF’s Students and Young Professionals Committee. Mohamed has been a WEFTEC participant since 1988 where he has presented 12 papers. He has also published four papers in Water Environment Research and is a member of the journal’s Board of Editorial Review.

In addition, he has been an active member of the Nebraska Water Environment Association (NWEA) serving as chair on numerous committees, a member of the executive board, vice president, president-elect, and president.

Widely recognized for his research on removing nitrate from water and wastewater using biological denitrification and managing risk for nitrate-contaminated groundwater supplies, Mohamed is a widely published author and participates internationally with various university programs in Austria, Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Korea, and Spain. He also is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Water Works Association (AWWA), the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), the International Water Association (IWA), the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

A 1998 recipient of WEF's prestigious Arthur Sidney Bedell Award, Mohamed received a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Iowa and a M.S. and Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Iowa State University.