Lucas de Melo
Senior Principal at Geosyntec Consultants & Adjunct Faculty at the Johns Hopkins University
- Role
- Senior Principal Engineer at Geosyntec Consultants
- Location
- Davis, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Lucas de Melo
Dr. Lucas de Melo is a Senior Principal Engineer and the Director of Business Development at Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. He served as a Board of Directors and Advisory Council member for six years. During his years at the BoD, he gained valuable experience as Geosyntec went through a change in ownership structure. Lucas was also an external member of Itasca Consultants\' Board of Directors for four years. Since 2012, Lucas is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE) at the Johns Hopkins University, being responsible for the geotechnical curriculum. He has over 30 years of experience in dams- and mining-related projects, geotechnical design and field studies, design of industrial waste disposal sites and municipal solid waste management facilities, and hazardous materials remediation. Lucas has served as Geosyntec’s project manager, project director, and lead engineer in various mine waste management and closure, and concrete and embankment dam projects. His experience in dams and mining includes internal erosion risk quantification, evaluation of liquefaction potential and stability, stress-strain behavior of geotechnical structures, and studies and design for dams and closure of mining waste disposal areas. Lucas notably served as a member of the expert panel tasked to identify the technical causes of the Dam I failure, at the Córrego do Feijão mine, in Brumadinho, Brazil. Specialties: Dams, Geotechnical, Mining, and Risk.
Experience
Senior Principal Engineer
Apr 2016 — Present · Davis, CA, US
Education
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
MSc, Geotechnical engineering
1993 — 1995
The Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D., Civil Engineering
1995 — 1999
Federal University of Ceara
BSc, Civil Enginnering
1988 — 1992
Skills
- Mining
- Water Resources
- Slope Stability
- Soil
- Modeling
- Foundation Design
- Environmental Compliance
- Remediation
- Hydraulics
- Wastewater Treatment
- Water
- Civil Engineering
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Hydrology
- Environmental Management Systems
- Groundwater
- Drainage
- Stormwater Management
- Hydrogeology
- Water Quality
- Landfill
- Environmental Consulting
- Groundwater Modeling
- Environmental Engineering
- Deep Foundations
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