Salma M. ElsherifKeeping Water SafeEnd-to-End

Credentials

Licenses, leadership, recognition, teaching, and professional memberships.

Licenses and certifications

  • Professional Engineer (PE)

    Commonwealth of Kentucky2026

  • Certificate in College Teaching

    Vanderbilt University2024

Leadership and service

  • Sep 2026 – present

    Member, New Professionals Committee

    National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)

    • The committee guides NSPE's efforts to make membership more useful and attractive to early-career engineers, including PEs and EIs/EITs under 35.
    • I help enhance NSPE's online community and encourage active member engagement.
    • I help identify ways to involve young professionals, including Emerging Leaders Program alumni, in NSPE programs and leadership roles, and bring their input into the committee's work.
  • Apr 2026 – present

    Student Committee Vice Chair

    Kentucky / Tennessee Section, AWWA

    • The committee provides resources for undergraduate and graduate students in Kentucky and Tennessee who are interested in careers in the water industry.
    • Support the student liaisons at universities in KY and TN.
    • Coordinate student events and manage the committee's funding and budget.
    • Support student participation in the KY/TN Water Professionals Conference (WPC) and other conferences.
    • Award scholarships to students pursuing careers in water.
  • Oct 2025 – present

    Office Lead, Roots of Arcadis

    Arcadis U.S., Inc.

    • I lead the office chapter of Roots of Arcadis, a professional development and networking group for early-career staff (0–10 years of industry experience).
    • The group creates leadership and growth opportunities for its members and fosters networking and culture-sharing across the office.
  • Oct 2021 – May 2025

    International Student Liaison

    Graduate Student Council, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University

    • Built a buddy system for international students in the department, and organized academic and social events to help them settle into the city and the country and connect across cultures and backgrounds.
    • Created and maintained an accessible resource hub for international students, covering health insurance, visas, fellowship opportunities, and more.

Peer reviewer

Journals

  • Water Research
  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
  • Journal of Hydroinformatics
  • Water Resources Management
  • Annual Reviews in Control
  • IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

Conferences

  • American Control Conference (ACC)
  • IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Honors and awards

  • 2024AWWA-CWP Student Scholarship
  • 2023Second Place, Student Poster Competition at Water Smart Innovations Conference
  • 2023J. Waldo Smith Hydraulic Fellowship, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • 2023Rengao Song Scholarship for Water Science and Technology, Louisville Water Company & AWWA
  • 2022Freeman Fellowship, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Teaching

  • 2021–2025

    Teaching Assistant at Vanderbilt University

    Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

    • CE2200: Statics
    • CE3300: Risk, Reliability, and Resilience Engineering
    • CE4240, CE5240: Infrastructure Systems Engineering
  • 2017–2021

    Assistant Lecturer at Cairo University

    Irrigation and Hydraulics Department

    • IHDG211: Fluid Mechanics
    • IHDG212: Hydraulics of Pipelines and Pumps
    • IHDG312: Design of Irrigation Works
    • IHDN403: Field Measurements and Water Quality Aspects

Professional memberships

  • American Water Works Association

  • Water Environment Federation

  • American Society of Civil Engineers

  • National Society of Professional Engineers

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