Carrie Turner Honored as the WSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Distinguished Engineer at the 2024 Hall of Fame
June 3, 2024
Carrie Turner was honored as the Distinguished Engineer for the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the 2024 Wayne State University College of Engineering (WSU) Hall of Fame event this past April. According to WSU, the “Hall of Fame was founded in 1983 to recognize and honor distinguished alumni who, through their leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation, have made significant industrial, educational and societal contributions to the engineering and computer science professions. The Hall of Fame celebrates the rich history of the College of Engineering and provides exceptional standards by which Wayne State University engineering students can measure success.”
Carrie, a Principal and Senior Water Resources Engineer, earned a B.S. in chemistry from Miami University and an M.S. in civil engineering from Wayne State University. She has worked coast-to-coast to solve some of the country’s most vexing and costly water resource issues. Carrie has focused on developing innovative, affordable, and sustainable solutions for communities facing human health, environmental, and economic impacts from extreme rainfall and high-intensity storms. Throughout her 26-year career, she has championed cutting-edge monitoring and modeling strategies. Carrie has led the use of microbial source tracking and metagenomic methods, wastewater-base epidemiology, field testing of new water quality sensor technologies, and pharmaceutical and personal care product environmental impact evaluations on behalf of her clients in research and everyday applications.
Carrie has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications, authored subject expert web articles on Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS)-related topics, and presented her work at dozens of professional conferences, meetings, and workshops. Carrie takes special pride in serving as a mentor to young scientists and engineers. She co-founded LimnoTech’s Women: Inspiring, Supporting, and Engaging (LT-WISE) group to support LimnoTech’s female staff as they navigate the unique challenges of being a woman in a STEM field. Carrie is a licensed Professional Engineer in Michigan and a member of the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the Indiana and Michigan Water Environment Associations.
Everyone at LimnoTech would like to congratulate Carrie on this well-deserved award and recognition. We value Carrie’s passion and commitment to the environmental engineering field, and we are very proud of her and all she has accomplished.
