Associate Director of Graduate Programs, Associate Director, Oklahoma Water Survey
Email: strevett@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-4237
Office: Carson Engineering Center, Room 327D
Education
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering
The University of Connecticut, Environmental Engineering, Process Development of a Biogas Purification System for Methane Enrichment: Biochemical Mechanisms and Kinetics, Mass Transfer, and Economics, Doctoral Dissertation, (Advisor: D. Grasso)
B.S., Civil Engineering
Michigan State University, Lansing Michigan
B.S., Microbiology and Public Health
Michigan State University, Lansing Michigan
Dr. Strevett is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma since 1995. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Oklahoma Water Survey with research and creative activities in the area of sediment transport, fluvial geomorphology, biological treatment, engineering education and Water/Wastewater Treatment operator education. Dr. Strevett earned his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut after completing a B.S. in Microbiology and Public Health and a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University.
Major research projects have been supported by NSF, USAF and USEPA have total over $10 million in the past thirty years with one of the NSF grants awarded under the CAREER program. Dr. Strevett teaching a range of civil and environmental engineering classes which currently include Vector Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Geomatics Engineering, Highway Engineering, Water and Wastewater Treatment Design, and Biological Design. Dr. Strevett supervises both undergraduate research students as well as graduate students in the areas of water resources engineering, environmental engineering, environmental science, and environmental education.
Through his teaching and service efforts, Dr. Strevett has been awarded several excellence in teaching awards, including:
Advisory Board Member—Pre-Engineering Program, Mid-America Technology Center (2017-present)
Editor-in-Chief – The International Journal of Water and Wastewater Treatment (2014-2022)
Associate Editor—Biochemical Engineering Journal (2002-2009)
Editorial Board Member —Biochemical Engineering Journal (2010-2016)
Board Member—Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Underground Storage Tank Division, State of Oklahoma (2001-2008)
Board Member—American Society of Civil Engineers, Oklahoma Section (2001-2008)
ENGR 3510.018 (3 credit hours): “Waste-management Education and Research Consortium Design”. Professional elective for environmental engineering and environmental science undergraduates.
ENGR 3223.010 (3 credit hours): “Fluid Mechanics”. Required core course for all undergraduates in the College of Engineering.
ENGR 2461 (1 credit hour): “Thermodynamics” Required for IE and Environmental Engineering.
ENGR 3441 (1 credit hour): “Fluid Mechanics” College of Engineering 1 credit hour course.
CEES 2113 (3 credit hours): “Statics” Required core course for CEES undergraduates.
PE 2113 (3 credit hours): “Statics and Dynamics” Required core course for PE undergraduates.
CEES 2223 (3 credit hours): “Fluid Mechanics”. Required core course for all undergraduates in the College of Engineering.
CE 3234.010/3234.011 (4 credit hours): “Environmental Engineering II”. Required core course with laboratory for all engineering undergraduates in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science.
CEES 3243.010/3243.011, .012 (3 credit hours): “Water and Wastewater Treatment Design” Required core course with laboratory for all engineering undergraduates in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science.
CEES 3883.010 (3 credit hours): Transportation Engineering. Required core course for the Civil Engineering program.
CEES 4050.001 (4 credit hours, 2 semester course): “Engineering Design Concepts”. An undergraduate elective that teaches key design concepts to undergraduate students.
CEES 4123 (3 credit hours): “Open Channel Flow”. A professional elective course for Civil and Environmental Engineers.
CEES 4234.010/4234.011 (4 credit hours): “Applied Environmental Microbiology”. Required core course with laboratory for all undergraduates in the environmental engineering program.
CEES 4324.010/4324.011 (4 credit hours): “Biological Aspect of Environmental Science”. Required core course with laboratory for all undergraduates in the environmental science and environmental engineering programs.
CEES 4453.010/4453.011, .012, .013, .014 (3 credit hours, 2-hour field experience): “Geomatics Engineering”. Required core for the Architectural Engineering and Civil Engineering program in CEES.
CEES 4803 (3 credit hours) Team-taught with Nairn, Knox, Mish: “Professional Practice” Required core course with laboratory for all engineering undergraduates in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science.
CEES 4903.002 (3 credit hour): “Senior Design”. Required core course with laboratory for all environmental engineering undergraduates in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science. The course was taught in collaboration with ES4913.
CEES 4905 (5 credit hours): “Environmental Capstone”. Required core course for all undergraduates in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science. Co-taught with Prof. R. Knox and R. Nairn
Graduate Couses
CEES 5020.018 (3 credit hours): “Biodegradation and Bioremediation”. Professional elective for both undergraduates and graduates in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science.
CEES 5033.995 (3 credit hours) “Highway Engineering”. Core course for graduate students in the online civil engineering program (Transportation Engineering concentration).
CEES 5233.010 (3 credit hours) “Biological Waste Treatment Design”. Core course for graduates in the environmental engineering program.
CEES 5234.010/5234.011 (4 credit hours): “Applied Environmental Microbiology”. Required core course with laboratory for all graduate students in the environmental engineering program.
CEES 5324.010/5324.011 (4 credit hours): “Biological Aspect of Environmental Science”. Required core course with laboratory for all graduates in the environmental science program.
CEES 5513.995 (3 credit hours) “Traffic Engineering”. Core course for graduate students in the online civil engineering program (Transportation Engineering concentration).
CEES 5624.010/5624.011 (4 credit hours): “Biological Design for Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems”. Core course for graduates in the environmental engineering program.
Bezdek, J. E., Strevett, K. A., & Kibbey, T. C. (2024). Removal of Attached Zinc Oxide and Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles from Spinach Leaves by Rinsing in the Absence and Presence of Preexisting Surface Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS). Applied Nano, 5(4), 311-323.
Mattes, H. A., Gao, S., Graves, G. M., Strevett, K., Vogel, J. R., & Neeson, T. M. (2024). Increased diversity of macroinvertebrates, but not fish, near wastewater outfalls in the Red River Basin, Oklahoma. Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 39(1), 2413896.
Gao, S., Li, Z., Graves, G., Mattes, H. A., Fathollahifard, S., Vogel, J., Neeson, T. M., Strevett, K., & Hong, Y. (2024). Hydro‐modeling the ecosystem impact of wastewater reuse under climate change: A case study in upper Red River basin, Oklahoma. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 60(4), 865-878.
Kibbey, T.C.G., and K.A. Strevett, 2019. The effect of nanoparticles on soil and rhizosphere bacteria and plant growth in lettuce seedlings. Chemosphere. Vol. 221, pp. 703-707.
