Leonard is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering and Undergraduate Coordinator in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Casson received B.E. and M.S. degrees from Vanderbilt University in 1980 and 1982, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1987. Dr. Casson is a registered Professional Engineer in Florida and Pennsylvania. Dr. Casson is also a Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) in the specialty of Water Supply and Wastewater by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Recently, he is also credentialed as an Envision Sustainability Professional by the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure.
Dr. Casson’s consulting areas of expertise include Adsorption, fate, transport and transformation of chemicals, particles and environmental pathogens in unit operations and the natural environment. These fundamentals are applied to the design and operation of safe, secure, sustainable, reliable and resilient infrastructure systems (i.e., drinking water treatment, storage and distribution systems and wastewater collection and treatment systems).
Current projects include: disinfection methodologies, resilience, vulnerability assessments, emergency response plans and analytical techniques and operational methodologies to ensure the security, sustainability, reliability resilience of drinking water and wastewater infrastructure systems.