Richard Carbonaro, Ph.D. Named Associate Dean For School Of Engineering
Key Leadership position will help lead and expand the school’s programs
Manhattan College’s Richard (Rich) Carbonaro, Ph.D. P.E., is now the Associate Dean for the School of Engineering (SoE), helping to lead the highly-regarded program with a legacy that spans over 130 years.
In this position, the Manhattan College alumnus will help grow the school's programs and focus on: academic excellence, a dedication to student success, expanding internal and external partnerships, and fostering a dynamic and collaborative academic environment for all.
"I’m excited to start this new chapter in my academic career and I’m grateful for the opportunity to work on behalf of the entire SoE faculty, staff, and students,” said Dr. Carbonaro. “Manhattan College provided me with a rigorous and practical engineering education, which has served me well throughout my career. We are known for our preparedness, creativity, and determination, which helps us continue the tradition of excellence. Our goal is simple, to ensure our graduates have the best training possible to be effective problem-solvers with the skills to overcome the next set of engineering challenges."
Dr. Carbonaro’s affiliation with Manhattan College began as an undergraduate. He completed both his bachelor’s ('97) and master’s degrees ('99) from the College in Environmental Engineering and went on to complete his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University (’04). He returned shortly after and became an assistant professor at Manhattan’s SoE. He has since served as a professor of chemical engineering at Manhattan College. Dr. Carbonaro is licensed in the state of New York and has worked for over a decade as a Partner and Principal Environmental Engineer with Mutch Associates, LLC.
His current practice areas and interests include: chemical fate and transport in natural and engineered systems, chemical reaction engineering, remediation of soils and sediments, in situ groundwater remediation and geochemical redox cycling of metals. He also consults on a wide range of topics, including water quality, contaminant fate and transport, groundwater geochemistry, hazardous waste remediation, and environmental forensics.
Dr. Carbonaro’s research on these topics has yielded several externally funded research grants and awards, and over thirty publications in leading peer-reviewed journals.
“I am thrilled that Rich will be able to join us in his new role as the Associate Dean,” said Anirban De, Ph,D., P.E. Interim Dean of the SoE. “Rich and I have previously worked together as faculty members and I admire his dedicated efforts to ensure the well-being of our students. He has regularly planned and participated in outreach activities to recruit students and the SoE will benefit from having him in his new role. As an alumnus of the SoE himself, Rich understands what it means to be a Jasper Engineer and he is an excellent role model for our students, as well as our younger faculty members.”