Joseph C. Reichenberger, P.E., BCEE, WEF Fellow
The WEF Fellows program, much like Fellows programs at universities and other professional trade associations, was created to recognize WEF members with outstanding achievement and impactful contributions to the water industry. Criteria was established in 2009 to recognize individual WEF member’s professional achievement, stature, and contributions towards the preservation and enhancement of the global water environment in design/consulting, education, operations, regulation, research and utility management/leadership, as well as, importantly, their service to WEF and respective Member Associations.
The prestigious title of “WEF Fellow” is awarded on a selective basis after a thorough application review process. Over a decade after its inaugural year, 195 of WEF’s best and brightest have been recognized as a “WEF Fellow.”
Joseph C. Reichenberger, P.E., BCEE has over 60 years of professional experience in a variety of positions in the field of civil and environmental engineering.
After graduating from Marquete University, he began his career in California. He is a registered engineer in five states, and also a certified water treatment plant operator in California.
Over the years, he has held multiples positions as a consulting engineer, working on more than 100 wastewater treatment and water plants projects across the country and overseas.
Joseph is also very active with professional organizations, being life members of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists, American Water Works Association, and Water Environment Federation. He has served on multiple committees and also was active in community involvement, having served at the California Association of Sanitation Agencies, San Gabriel Valley Water District, San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority, the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, City of Monterey Park, as well as being a Scout Master.
He received the Water Vision Award from his work for the San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water Authority in 1996.
Perhaps the most noted contributions Joseph has made to the field is as an educator. He is a professor at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Loyola Marymount University since 1993. Over the years, he has trained over 400 undergraduate and graduate environmental engineers, most of them now serving in various positions in southern California and elsewhere.
To quote one reference, “his most important achievement in his professional career has been the application of his hard engineering experience to the development of implementation-oriented environmental engineers at the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. There is no other educational institution with such a record of accomplishment in Southern California, and meeting the demand for talent and this record exists because of the work and experience of Professor Reichenberger.”
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