Faculty Profile: Alex Mayer, Ph.D.
March 31, 2020
Alex Mayer, Ph.D., civil engineering professor from The University of Texas at El Paso comes from Michigan Technological University with experience in the field of environmental engineering. His focus is on water resilience, water management, groundwater flow and transport, and an overall understanding of the challenges communities face with water. Mayer has worked in Mexico and the United States to solve real life situations where there are water problems. His goal in the El Paso-Las Cruces-Ciudad Juárez region is to understand the future of water by using water management models and by understanding how people value water for urban and agricultural use and for maintaining ecosystems.
Mayer is also known to be a great collaborator with other colleges within the university to help find real life solutions to water problems. He understands that problems don’t always get fixed by only an engineering mindset but that of different professions working together engaging with communities to better understand their needs and the ways they use water.
Through his research Mayer can help students understand how interdisciplinary studies help engineers solve real life problems and how to make policies that will work. He is also very interested in answering any questions students may have about water resources management and how to write personal essays for graduate and proposal essays.