Jeannie Darby
Jeannie Lynn Darby is an American engineer and professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis. She held the Gerald T. and Lillian P. Orlob Professorship in Water Resources Engineering from 2005 to 2010 and was named associate dean for academic personnel and planning in 2022.
Education and career: She earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rice University in 1978, an M.S. from Tufts University in 1982, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1988. She joined UC Davis in 1989 and served as department chair from 2004 to 2009.
Research: Darby’s work focuses on water treatment and sustainable infrastructure design, including water quality management. She has studied UV disinfection for water treatment, iron-based adsorbents to remove arsenic from groundwater, and technologies to remove nitrate from drinking water.
Awards: She received the National Society of Professional Engineers Engineering Education Excellence Award in 2001 and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education. In 2017 she and Vivian Jensen won the Small Systems Division award for their paper Brine Disposal Options for Small Systems in California’s Central Valley.
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