Arka Pandit, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
• M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• B.S Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineeing, Science and Technology, Shibpore, India
  

Research

Motivated by the need for sustainability and resilience in an increasingly uncertain world, my primary research interest encompasses two of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: “Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” and “Ensure access to water and sanitation for all”. To progress towards achieving the aforementioned research goals, my research focuses on:

• development of integrated adaptable urban infrastructure systems for sustainability and resilience optimization at the systems level,
• development of sustainable and novel materials and technologies to remove and recover nutrients from point and non-point sources, and
• sustainable and resilient water-wastewater-stormwater systems that ensures equitable access across the socio-econo-demographical divide. 

Publications

1. Chai, R.‡, Pandit, A., (2018) “Managing the Influx of Nutrients to Coastal Areas from Non-Point Sources at the Watershed Scale” Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology (Under Review)

2. Pandit, A., Crittenden, J.C. (2018) “Quantifying Full Spectrum Resilience of Urban Water Systems: A Framework” Water Resources Management (Under Review)

3. Pandit, A., DesRoches, R., Rix, G.J., Crittenden, J.C. (2018) “The SuRe (Sustainable and Resilient) Zone of Urban Infrastructure System (UIS) Planning & Design” Journal of Infrastructure Systems (Under Review)

4. Pandit, A., Brown, H., Newell, J. P., Chang, M. E., Weissburg, M., Xu, M., … Crittenden, J. C. (2017). “Infrastructure Ecology: An Evolving Paradigm for Sustainable Urban Development”. Journal of Cleaner Production, doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.09.010

5. James, J-A.C., Thomas, V., Pandit, A., Crittenden, J.C. (2016) “Water, air emissions, and cost impacts of air-cooled microturbines for combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) systems: A case study in the Atlanta region” Engineering, 2 (4), 470-480.

6. Pandit, A., Crittenden, J.C. (2016) “Index of Network Resilience (INR) for Urban Water Systems” International Journal of Critical Infrastructure, 12(1/2), 120-142.

7. Pandit, A., Lu, Z., Crittenden, J.C. (2015). “Managing the Complexity of Urban Systems” Journal of Industrial Ecology 19(2), 201-204.

8. Pandit, A., Crittenden, J.C. (2015) “Resilient Urban Systems: Where We Stand Now and Where We Need to Go” Solutions, 6(1), 74-81.

9. Minsker, B., Baldwin, L., Crittenden, J., …, Pandit, A., Parker, J., Rivera, S., Surbeck, C., Wallace, W., and Williams, J. (2015). "Progress and Recommendations for Advancing Performance-Based Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Design." J. Water Resour. Plann. Manage., 141(12): A4015006.

10. Sengupta, S., Pandit, A (2011) “Selective Removal of Phosphorus from Wastewater Combined with Its Recovery as a Solid-Phase Fertilizer” Water Research, 45(11), 3318-3330.

11. Ergas, S. J., Sengupta, S., Siegel, R., Pandit, A., Yao, Y., Yuan, X (2010) “Performance of Nitrogen Removing Bioretention Systems for Control of Agricultural Runoff” Journal of Environmental Engineering, 136(10), 1105-1112. 

Courses

Graduate Courses

• CE 571: Biological Wastewater Treatment
• CE 572: Physicochemical Water Treatment
• CE 590: Water Chemistry
• CE 592: Surface Water Quality Modeling

Undergraduate Courses 

• EG 270: Engineering Thermodynamics
• CE 370: Introduction to Environmental Engineering
• CE 374: Environmental Engineering Laboratory
• CE 412/512: Sustainability and Management of Infrastructure Systems
• CE 470/590: Water and Wastewater Treatment Design
• CE 471: Water and Wastewater Treatment Design Laboratory
• CE 494: Environmental Transport Modeling  

Faculty Advisor: Alabama Water Environment Association, University of South Alabama Student Chapter