Including Principles of Sustainability in Design by Implementing the Engineering for One Planet Framework

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Pennsylvania and an Envision Sustainability professional. She was promoted to Professor in 2013 and assumed the role of Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering in 2016. In July she will join The College of New Jersey as the Dean of the School of Engineering. As Associate Dean she started the Honors program, launched the Grand Challenges Scholars Program, helped to found the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, and co-led the effort to infuse sustainability throughout the engineering curriculum. Dr. Welker was one of the first researchers performing crossdisciplinary research on the geotechnical aspects of stormwater control measures (SCMs). She is currently part of a multistate, multi-year effort supported by the William Penn Foundation to ensure plentiful, clean water in the Delaware River Watershed. In addition, she is studying the effect of modern-day stormwater management on streams. Dr. Welker is active in the Geo-Institute of the ASCE. For many years she served as the Academic Liaison for the Delaware Valley Geo-Institute and was the inaugural chair of the Geo-Institute Continuing Education Committee. She was the founder and director of the Geo-Video student competition from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Welker has served as the Secretary and Treasurer, Freshman Director, Midterm Director, Senior Director, Program Chair, and Chair of the Civil Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. She is currently serving as the Civil Engineering Division's liaison to ASCE.