Scott Struck

Contact Information

Engineering Bldg.
428 S Shaw Ln
Room: 3546
East Lansing , MI 48824

(517) 355-5107

strucks2@msu.edu

Adjunct - Scholar

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Biography

Dr. Struck has 24 years of water resources and energy-water nexus planning, design, and implementation experience providing strategic and technical leadership for public and private clients across North America. Building upon 20 years of private consulting, Scott currently leads the National Laboratory of the Rockies Integrated Water Systems group. Scott’s work focuses on addressing technical and economic challenges of water supply and wastewater treatment using combinations of passive and active treatment integrated with alternatively powered, and grid connected technologies.

Education

  • Ph.D., Water Resources Engineering and Management, Indiana University
  • M.S., Water Resources Engineering and Management, Indiana University
  • M.P.A., Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management, Indiana University
  • B.S., Biology, University of Washington
  • B.A., Psychology, University of Washington

Selected Publications

  1. Chapin, T. F., Saka, U. M., Paul, L., Anwar, A., Struck, S.D., Mauter, & Fierro, G. (2026). A prototype ontology and data management platform for water treatment systems. In Proceedings of the 20th IWA Leading Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Tech
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364815225004724
  2. Saka, U., Chapin, F. T., Paul, L., Anwar, A., Struck, S.D., Mauter, M. S., & Fierro, G. (2026). Toward Interoperable Data Driven Applications in Water Treatment Systems. In 13th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cit
    https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3744256.3812557
  3. Hawkins, K.M., Pritchard, J.C., Struck, S.D., Cho, Y.M. Luthy, R.G., and Higgins, C.P. 2024. Controlling saturation to improve per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) removal in biochar-amended stormwater bioretention systems. https://pubs.rsc.org/ew/article/10/5/1233/808610/Controlling-saturation-to-improve-per-and
  4. SD Struck, D Greene, & K Sitterley. (2023). Developing Renewable Energy Applications for Water Treatment Technologies and Transmission. ASCE Inspire 2023 https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784485163.092
  5. Pritchard, J.C., Hawkins, K.M., Cho, Y.M., Spahr, S., Struck, S.D., Higgins, C.P. and Luthy, R.G., 2022. Black Carbon-Amended Engineered Media Filters for Improved Treatment of Stormwater Runoff. ACS Environmental Au, 3(1), pp.34-46. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenvironau.2c00037https://doi.org/10.
  6. Bernagros, J.T., Pankani, D., Struck, S.D. and Deerhake, M.E. 2021. Estimating Regionalized Planning Costs of Green Infrastructure and Low-Impact Development Stormwater Management Practices: Updates to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s National Stormwater Calculator: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7898140/
  7. Struck, S.D., M. Leisenring, L. Nguyen, D. Seeliger, B. Van Duin, P. Lopez Hernandez, and J. Cantone. 2018. Chapter 39 - Modelling for Integrated Stormwater Management of the Renfrew Neighbourhood: A Pilot Study: UDM 2018: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327379733_Modelling_for_Integrated_Stormwater_Management_of_the_Renfrew_Neighbourhood_A_Pilot_Study_UDM_2018
  8. A Watershed Approach to Mitigating Stormwater Impacts. 2017. N.Weinstein, E. Clifton, M. Venner, M. Leisenring, D. Pankani, C. Wisdom, S.D. Struck, S. Taylor, K., and D. Nees. National Cooperative Highway Research Program; Transportation Research Board: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/webinars/170920.pdf