William Pennock
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
268 Colton Hall (COLT)
About Me
William Pennock joined NJIT from Cornell University, where he completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering. He was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for his work on improving models of coagulation, flocculation, and sedimentation for water treatment techniques that eliminate the use of electricity and moving parts. The chief aim of his work is to expand access to municipal drinking water treatment throughout the majority world. Before joining the department, William was working in India on a Fulbright-Nehru fellowship toward the development, dissemination and adoption of a new village-scale drinking water treatment plant he and his colleagues from Cornell and India designed. Dr. Pennock earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering with a minor in Environmental Engineering at NJIT. His current work focuses on the design and operation of drinking water treatment plants and detecting and removing lead in premise plumbing.
Education
Ph.D. ; Cornell University ; Environmental Engineering, ; 2019

M.S. ; Cornell University ; Environmental Engineering ; 2016

B.S. ; New Jersey Institute of Technology ; Civil Engineering ; 2013

Office Hours
Tuesdays & Thursdays 14:30–16:00
2025 Fall Courses
ENE 790A - DOCTORAL DISSERT & RES

CE 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

CE 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

ENE 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

CE 700B - MASTERS PROJECT

CE 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

ENE 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

CE 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

ENE 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

ENE 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

CE 491 - RESEARCH EXPER-CIVIL ENGR

ENE 490 - SENIOR PROJECT

ENE 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

CE 490 - CIVIL ENGR PROJECTS

CE 727 - INDEPENDENT RESEARCH III

CE 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

CE 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

ENE 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

CE 320 - FLUID MECHANICS

Teaching Interests
Physical and Chemical Treatment
Fluid Mechanics
Development Engineering
Sustainability
Past Courses
CE 320: FLUID MECHANICS

CE 322: HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING

ENE 465: SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE

ENE 664: PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL TREATMENT

Research Interests
Modeling of conventional drinking water treatment processes (coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration), Technology development for low resource applications, Fluid mechanics, Lead corrosion, Adsorption, Stormwater
In Progress
Comparison of Ferric Coagulants
Comparing the performance of ferric sulfate and ferric chloride on removal of organics and suspended particles.

Effect of pulses on fluidized bed clarification
Work with researchers from Ben Gurion University of the Negev integrating their colloidal dynamics findings with a water treatment reactor my group has worked with.

Journal Article
Jay N Meegoda, William Pennock, Christina Brenckman, Ashish D. Borgaonkar. 2024. "Would the Oceans Become Toxic to Humanity Due to Use and Mismanagement of Plastics?." International journal of environmental research and public health , vol. 22 , no. 1 , pp. 17.

Jay N Meegoda, William Pennock, Christina Brenckman, Ashish D. Borgaonkar. 2024. "Would the Oceans Become Toxic to Humanity Due to Use and Mismanagement of Plastics?." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , vol. 22 , no. 1 , pp. 17.

William Pennock, Leonard W. Lion, Monroe L. Weber-Shirk. 2023. "Simple Model for Coupled Hydraulic Flocculation-Sedimentation Performance." Journal of Environmental Engineering , vol. 149 , no. 12 , pp. 04023089.

William H. Pennock, Leonard W. Lion, Monroe L. Weber-Shirk. 2021. "Design Algorithm for Vertically-Baffled Flocculators." Environmental Engineering Science .

Yingda Du, William Pennock, Monroe L. Weber-Shirk, Leonard W. Lion. 2019. "Observations and a Geometric Explanation of the Effects of Humic Acid on Flocculation." Environmental Engineering Science , vol. 36 , no. 5 .

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