E-mail: makarim@vcu.edu or makarim@juno.com
Telephone: (804) 698-4196 / (804) 364-8101
Complete CV

VCU departmental affiliation:
Affiliate Professor, Center for Environmental Studies
Affiliate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Community Health

External Affiliations:
Virginia Department of Environemntal Quality (DEQ)

Degrees:
Ph.D. (Civil/Environmental Engineering) Cleveland State University (CSU), 2000
M.Sc. Engineering (Civil) Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology BUET), 1992
B.Sc. Engineering (Civil) BUET, 1989

Experiences:
03/2002 to date : Environmental Engineer Senior, Virginia DEQ.
08/2003 to date : Affiliate Professor, VCU CES and Dept. of Epidemiology & Community Health.
02/1999 to 02/2002: Applications Programmer I & II, ALLTEL Information Services.
08/2000 to 12/2001: Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, CSU,Cleveland, Ohio.
09/1995 to 12/1998 : Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, CSU, Cleveland, Ohio.
01/1994 to 08/1995: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
11/1992 to 12/1993: Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
12/1989 to 10/1992: Research Lecturer, Institute of Flood Control and Drainage Research (IFCDR), BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Courses taught at VCU:
• ENVS 591: Introduction to Environemntal Engineering (graduate)
• EPID/ENVS 541: Principles of Waste Management (graduate)

Research interests:
• Conventional and bioreactor landfills design, operations, and performance
• Remediation and pollution control, especially, geoenvironmental engineering as applied to soil decontamination.
• Solid/hazardous waste management
• Environmental management and environmental modeling

Recent publications/abstracts/presentations:
Karim, M.A. and Khan, L.I.(2003), An Apparatus for Testing Soil Decontamination by the CEHIXM Process, Journal of Civil Engineering, The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, Vol. CE 31, No. 1, pp.53-65, June.

Karim, M.A. and Khan, L.I.(2002), CEHIXM Extraction of Pb, Cd, Zn and Mn from High Permeable Soils, Soil and Sediment Contamination: an International Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.57-69, January.

Karim, M.A. and Khan, L.I.(2001), EDTA-Enhanced Extraction of Heavy Metals from a Coarse Grained Simulated Soil by the CEHIXM Process, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, Vol.51, No.8, pp.1178-1184, August.

Karim, M.A. and Khan, L.I.(2001), Removal of Heavy Metals from Sandy Soils Using CEHIXM Process, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. B81, No.1-2, pp.83-102, January.

Karim, M.A.(2000), EDTA-Enhanced Electrokinetic Extraction of Pb (II) and Zn (II) from Millpond Sludge, Journal of Civil Engineering, The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, Vol.CE 28, No.2, December.

Karim, M.A. and Chowdhury, J.U.(1995), A Comparison of Four Distributions Used in Flood Frequency Analysis in Bangladesh, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Vol.40, No.1, February, U.K.

Rahman, M.M. and Karim, M.A.(1995), Impact of Greater Dhaka Flood Protection Embankment on Surface Water Quality with Respect to Tannery Waste Disposal, Journal of Pollution Research, Vol.14, No.2, Karad 415 110, India.

Karim, M.A. and Rahman, M.M.(1994), Water Quality of Begunbari Canal in Dhaka City, Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, Vol.22, No.2, April.

Chowdhury, J.U. and Karim, M.A.(1994), Which Distribution is Appropriate for Flood Frequency Analysis in Bangladesh?, Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, Vol.22, No.3-4, July-October.

Islam, M.Z. and Karim, M.A.(1992), Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Rural Bangladesh, Journal of Irrigation Engineering and Rural Planning, Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage, and Reclamation Engineering, No.23, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 57~69, July.

Chowdhury, J.U. and Karim, M.A.(1993), Selection of Probability Distribution Function for Flood Frequency Analysis in Bangladesh, Final Report, R01/93, Institute of Flood Control and Drainage Research (IFCDR), BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh, June.

Karim, M.A. and Rahman, M.M.(1992), Impact of Greater Dhaka City Flood Protection Embankment on the Disposal of Industrial Wastes and Environment, Final Report, A Joint Research Initiative of United Nations Center for Regional Development (UNCRD), Nagoya, Japan and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, August.

Karim, M.A.(2001), Modeling of Transport and Removal of Contaminants from Soils by the CEHIXM Process, Proceedings of the First Annual Paper Meet and International Conference on Civil Engineering, Organized by the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB), Civil Engineering Division of IEB, FEISCA, IEB Chittagong Center, November 2-3.