KNOWLEDGE. EXPERIENCE. RESULTS.
Highlights
Director, US Army Corps of Engineers Worldwide Civil Works Research and Development Program
Director, US Army Topographic Engineering Center
Specialist in Dredging, Wetlands, Construction Productivity, Invasive Species Control and Geospatial Technology.
Registered Professional Engineer, Wisconsin
Practice Areas
Strategic and program management
Federal agency consulting
Education
PhD, Michigan State University
MS, University of Wisconsin
BS, University of Wisconsin
Federal Executive Development Program
Federal Executive Institute
The Harvard Senior Managers in Government Program
Army Command and General Staff College
Air Force War College
Contact
William Roper, PhD, PE
Senior Advisor
Bill Roper is a Professor with the College of Science at George Mason University and an expert in multiple technologies and methodologies that have engineering, environmental and public policy applications.
Bill has spent a lifetime engaged in Civil & Environmental Engineering and Public Policy. He has developed and led major R&D programs in areas such as dredging operations, wetlands, construction productivity, invasive species control, energy efficiency and geospatial technology.
For many years, Bill served as the Director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Worldwide Civil Works Research and Development Program. He also served as Director of the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC). Bill’s professional experience includes senior management positions in the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army, Arlington County Government, academia and the private sector.
Additionally, Bill has been active with the Water Science and Technology Board, the Infrastructure and Constructed Environment Board, and the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Engineering.
Bill is a member of the Federal Senior Executive Service, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Society of American Military Engineers.
Other Experience
Professor and Chair Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, George Washington University. Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Director of the Environmental Services Department, Arlington County, Virginia. As Director, Bill managed public works programs, wastewater treatment operations, water distribution, transportation programs, engineering design and construction programs, and other environmental-public works related county operations.
Chief Environmental Officer, Arlington County, Virginia
Science and Technology Advisor to the NGA Commercial Imagery Office, EPA Wastewater Management Office and NIST Building and Fire Laboratory
Appointed to the National Academies Committee for Protection of Critical Transportation Infrastructure & chair of the subcommittee on technology research, development and deployment.
CEO LMG Energy LLC, developing renewable energy systems for Africa
President and Founding Director of the Rivers of the World Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the improvement and protection of the world’s rivers and lakes.
Commander, 160th R&D detachment 80th USAR Division, Fort Belvoir Virginia.
Senior Faculty member Applied Technology Institute teaching classes on hyperspectral and multi-spectral image analysis at locations throughout the United States.
Author of more than 150 technical papers on engineering, technology and public policy.