Woolard to become AWWA president-elect
|
|
|
Craig Woolard |
Craig Woolard, treatment division director
of the Anchorage (Alaska) Water and Wastewater Utility, has been elected by the
AWWA Board of Directors to become the association's next
president-elect.
The election took place at the board's mid-winter meeting, January
Woolard has undertaken a variety of roles in the water industry
throughout his career. He worked construction in college and since graduating,
has worked as a consultant, civil engineering professor and department chair,
and associate dean of research and graduate studies for the University of
Alaska―Anchorage engineering program before joining the Anchorage
utility.
An AWWA member since 1995, Woolard has served on the
Credentialing, Camp Scholarship, Publications Award, Young Professionals, and
Strategic Planning committees and was the liaison officer to the Administration
and Policy Council.
On the section level, Woolard has served as section chair and
chair of the annual conference and the research and development committees. In
1997, he was named the AWWA Alaska Section Volunteer of the Year. He received
the AWWA Fuller Award in 2003.
Woolard is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
the Water Environment Federation, and the US Coast Guard Auxiliary. He has
served on several Anchorage city boards.
Woolard earned a BS and a PhD in civil engineering from Montana State University and the University of Notre Dame, respectively. He did postdoctoral research at the Institute for Water Quality and Waste Management at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He has also completed the University of North Carolina’s Water and Wastewater Leadership Center program.