Mohan Bahadur Dangi is an American environmental engineer, science diplomat, and professor in the Department of Geography and City & Regional Planning at California State University (CSU), Fresno with a specialization in technical and social aspects of solid waste management (SWM) and engineering. Prof. Dangi is known best for his research on the management of municipal solid waste in low-income countries. He has successfully tested a combination of engineering and social science approaches to tackle a four-decade-long, ineffective endeavor in SWM in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Prof. Dangi’s work in curriculum development and capacity-building activities has produced ninememoranda of understanding between U.S. and Nepali universities as well as two engineering curricula in his native country of Nepal. He has created and reinvented nine courses for CSU, Fresno, the University of Wyoming (UW), and the United States Agency for International Development. Among them, he developed two life-changing study abroad courses to the third pole, Cultural Landscape and Environmental Change in the Himalayasat CSU, Fresno, and Environmental Quality in the Himalayas at UW. Professor Dangi, a 2022 Embassy Science Fellowship awardee from the U.S. Department of State anda 2021-2022 Jefferson Science Fellowship winner from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, andMedicine, has received numerous accolades and recognitions for his work. For example, he received the 2022 Global Achievement Award from his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University and he is a 2021-2022 Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Nepal from the U.S. Department of State and received the 2017-2018 Fulbright Specialist Award also from the U.S. Department of State. He was a Fulbright U.S. Scholar alternate to Nepal in 2020-2021. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. Professor Dangi earned his Ph.D. and MS in Geography and Environmental Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, both MSc in Environmental Science and Engineering and a BSc in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining with a minor in Asian Studies and International Politics from Colorado School of Mines, and AS in Physical Sciences with valedictorian from Central Wyoming College. He is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists, a Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer (D.WRE) ofthe American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, and a licensed professional engineer (PE) in Colorado. He is an Associate Editor of the Waste Management & Research journal and serves on the Editorial Board of three other journals. He is a member of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professorsand the American Society of Civil Engineers.