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Dr. Ronald C. Sims, PhD, is the Huntsman Corporation Endowed Professorship recipient at Utah State University and Co-Director of the Sustainable Waste-to-Bioproducts Engineering Center. His research area is sustainable systems engineering related to public health and the environment. He teaches courses in biological engineering design and biochemical engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and of the Institute of Biological Engineering, and the founding department head of Biological Engineering at USU. Before that, he served as Director of the Utah Water Research Laboratory. He has over 124 refereed publications, over 267 total publications, and over 10,000 citations.

Previous to joining the faculty at USU, Dr. Sims served as Director of the International Program in Environmental Aspects of Industrial Development sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, as Supervisor of the Environmental Control Laboratory at Mobay Chemical Corporation, subsidiary of Bayer Corp., and as an environmental engineer with the Research Triangle Institute, North Carolina.

Dr. Sims has the PhD in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from North Carolina State University, M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Washington State University, M.S. in Environmental Chemistry and Biology from the University of North Carolina School of Global Public Health, and a B.S. degree in Biology from the University of Dayton, Ohio.

May 2023