Advisory Board

Suzanne Aultman, PE, SE, FPCI, is the Vice President of Engineering for Metromont in Greenville, SC, where she has 21 years of experience designing and building precast/prestressed structures. She spends her time developing solutions for projects with sales and estimating, training engineers, leading research and development efforts, writing and maintaining building codes, and working across departments to maintain technical integrity. Suzanne earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Clemson University in 2000 and 2002 and her M.A. degree in Counseling Psychology from the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology in 2016.

Suzanne is a licensed professional engineer and a licensed general contractor. She serves on numerous technical committees within PCI and ACI. Suzanne has been an Adjunct Professor at Clemson University teaching Prestressed Concrete Design. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Altus Group and the Board of Trustees for the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.

Suzanne has volunteered with Engineering Ministries International in India, Guatemala, and Jordan. She has spent many years mentoring and coaching college students and young adults in all areas of life through various organizations. She regularly emphasizes the importance of allowing ourselves and others to be human within the corporate world and its demands. Honors she has received in her career are the NSPE Young Engineer of the Year in 2009, Clemson University College of Engineering Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2010, PCI Fellow in 2019, Irwin J. Speyer Young Professional Award in 2020, and the SC Engineer of the Year in 2021.

Paul Bowen is retired from The Coca-Cola Company, where he led The Company’s water sustainability effort for over 20 years. During his career, he had a position in CCNA as a technical expert on water/wastewater treatments, a role in Corporate Sustainability as a Global Technical Lead in water/wastewater and a leadership role as Director of Sustainable Operations. His primary focus was improving water efficiency, developing water reuse, and promoting compliance with corporate wastewater standards. His work helped reduce the water use ratio of bottling operations by over 35%. In addition, over 80 facilities installed wastewater treatment plants to meet Company wastewater specifications. He was responsible for developing and embedding environmental sustainability across all Coca-Cola System operations. He served as a technical expert for developing water reuse with corporate quality standards.

His work at The Coca-Cola Company on water efficiency led him to collaborate with other beverage companies. As a result of his efforts, the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) was founded in 2006. This group of over 15 global beverage companies continues to focus on sustainable practices in the water and climate space. Paul continues to provide leadership to BIER as the Chair Emeritus of the Steering Council.

Before joining The Coca-Cola Company, he was a Vice-President with Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. Paul was a Senior Technical Leader for Water and Wastewater. He oversaw preliminary design and process reviews for over 15 major treatment facilities around the globe. Before becoming a consultant, he was an assistant professor in the School of Civil Engineering & Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma. Paul conducted research for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AWWARF) and the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF).

Paul served on the Water Environment Federation Board of Trustees (2009-2012, 2013-2017) and served as WEF President (2015-2016). He was also on the Board of Directors of Water For People (2002-2013) when the Board changed from 35 to 9 members. Paul was a member of the ASCE Environmental Engineering Steering Committee (1985-1995) and served as Chair (1992-1994). Currently, he is on the Board of Directors for The Water Tower Institute in Gwinnett County, GA and is the Secretary. Paul is also a member of the Board of Directors for Aquacyl. He has been on the Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Advisory Panel since 2018 and is currently Chair.

Paul earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Mercer University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Systems Engineering from Clemson University.

Marshall Brown – ACM Chemistries, Inc.

Director, Environmental Remediation
Olin Corporation

EDUCATION

• M.S., Environmental Engineering – Clemson University, 2000
• B.S., Biology/Chemistry (minor) – University of South Carolina, 1991

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• Professional Engineer, Georgia, License Number PE030383
• Professional Engineer, Illinois, License Number 062.066425
• Board Certified Environmental Engineer, American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientist

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

• ABET Professional Advisory Board – Clemson University, Undergraduate Environmental Engineering (as Chairman)
• ABET Professional Advisory Board – Clemson University, College of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
• ABET Professional Advisory Board – University of Tennessee – Chattanooga, Undergraduate Civil and Chemical Engineering (current)
• Guest Lecturer – Clemson University - Alan Elzerman Memorial Lecture Series
• Environmental Remediation Short Course – Universidad de Porto, Porto, Portugal

CAREER SUMMARY

Mr. Cashwell is a Professional Environmental Engineer with over 25 years of experience with an emphasis on environmental remediation engineering. This experience includes the development and implementation of both ex-situ and in-situ remediation strategies, remedial evaluation, design, and optimization for RCRA/CERCLA regulated sites, and the Strategic regulatory management and direction of environmental Sites. As a consultant, Mr. Cashwell completed projects for both industrial and governmental clients. As an Industry Representative, Mr. Cashwell has managed the legacy environmental liability for a diverse range of sites under both State and Federal leadership.

Mr. Cashwell has managed a 25-year Corporate Partnership with a national consulting firm with fees that average over $5 million dollars/year.

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Mr. Cashwell enjoys being in the outdoors whether it be playing golf, fishing, hunting, or hiking. A good book, both fiction and non-fiction, is also a favorite past-time. Mr. Cashwell enjoys traveling with his wife Catherine, especially to new locations worldwide.

MENTORING OPPORTUNITIES

Clemson University

• Served as a judge for Capstone Design (undergraduate Environmental Engineering)
• Annual guest lecturer for senior Environmental Engineering Professional Seminar on the topic of opportunities for Environmental Engineers in Industry.

Olivia Flynn – Hazen & Sawyer

Chicago Bridge and Iron Company

Associate for Facilities Management
Charleston County School District

OVERVIEW

Steve Hamer was born in New York City and grew up in Nichols, South Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Clemson University and a Master of Science Degree in civil engineering from the University of Maryland. He is a retired military officer serving for over 30 years in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps. As Associate for Facilities Management, he oversees the management of all facilities in the state’s 2nd largest school district.

Hamer’s naval operational assignments included U. S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) ONE, Executive Officer of NMCB 133 and Commanding Officer of NMCB 4. Among his shore assignments were Public Works Department, Naval Air Station Patuxent River Maryland; Southern Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) in Charleston, South Carolina and NAVFAC Headquarters in Washington, DC, as Flag Aide to the Navy Chief of Civil Engineers. Other assignments included Resident Officer in Charge of Contracts for the Washington Navy Yard, Navy Personnel Command in Millington, TN; Assistant Operations Officer NAVFAC Southwest in San Diego, CA; Deputy Executive Assistant to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations; and Commanding Officer of NAVFAC OICC Bethesda and NAVFAC Southeast in Jacksonville, FL. Upon retiring from the military, Hamer held the position of Executive Director of the Seabee Historical Foundation/Seabee Memorial Scholarship Association.

Steve Hamer is a registered engineer in the state of South Carolina, a member of the Society of American Military Engineers and a former member of the Clemson University Department of Civil Engineering Board of Advisors. His hobbies include golf, tennis and running.

Dr. Jane McLamarrah is a Former Vice President with Stantec Consulting Services. Stantec is a global engineering firm headquartered in Edmonton, Canada.

She has over 45 years of experience in municipal engineering and currently specializes in wastewater collection systems. She has assisted the Cities of Atlanta, Baltimore, Miami-Dade, and New Orleans in dealing with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) consent decrees to control and prevent sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs).

She has implemented US EPA’s Capacity, Management, Operations, and Maintenance (CMOM) Programs for both large and small wastewater utilities. In addition to the regulatory consent decree and CMOM activities, she has completed wastewater and stormwater master planning projects for several municipalities across the country, including the Cities of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, and Long Beach.

Dr. McLamarrah has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Clemson University as well as degrees from the University of Rhode Island (B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A. in U.S. History), and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (B.S. in Secondary Education, Mathematics and History double major).

She volunteers on the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF’s) Collection Systems Committee, where she is a past chair and founding member of the Private Property Virtual Library task group. She was the task force chair and chapter author for the WEF special publication’s Private Property Infiltration and Inflow Control and Technologies for CMOM Activities in Wastewater Collection Systems. She also volunteers for the National Council of Examiners for Engineering & Surveying’s (NCEES) Fundamentals Examination Committee.

Posillico, Inc.

Dr. H. Allison Smith graduated from Clemson with a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1985 and went on to receive an M.S. in 1987 and Ph.D. in 1989 in Civil Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics from Duke University. Her area of research was in computational structural dynamics, primarily for bridges and marine systems under wind, wave, and seismic loadings. She worked as a Research Engineer in the Sensor Component Division at Sandia National Laboratories and as a Senior Structural Engineer at Exxon Production Research before accepting a faculty position at Stanford University. 

Dr. Smith was a faculty member in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford for nine years, receiving tenure, and achieving the rank of Associate Professor before stepping down in 2000 to raise her four children. After moving East, Dr. Smith was an Adjunct Professor at the Webb Institute for Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in Glen Cove, NY. All four of her children are engineers, with one son graduating from Clemson in 2017 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering.

Most recently, Smith has volunteered in a number of organizations focused on preparing underserved high school students for college. She developed the mathematics curriculum for the CollegeTracks program and served as a lead tutor for mathematics for that organization.

Allision Smith has been part of Clemson’s Civil Engineering Advisory Board since 2013 and currently serves as Chair.

I grew up in the small town of Ninety Six, SC and graduated from Clemson in 1979 with a B.S. degree in Microbiology. Afterward, I went to work at a large-scale fermentation plant in Kingstree, SC, in September of 1980. I began my career there in Quality Control but moved to Production Department, where I was responsible for all culture preparation and fermentation monitoring. The original company I worked for was a Dutch-owned company called GBFI which was part of Gist Brocades. This was a gratifying career as I was exposed to many different fermentations from bacterial and fungal, nematode, and microalgae, as well as the downstream processing units. The company's names changed several times, but the work was much the same. Working with FermPro and, finally, Martek and DSM, we focused primarily on DHA and ARA for ingredients in infant formulas.

I have been a member of the Professional Advisory Board for Biosystems Engineering at Clemson for many years. I also had the pleasure of working with Professor Caye Drapcho before my work in the PAB on a curriculum project geared toward towards students in bioprocessing studies. I look forward to working with you all.

Mary Katherine Watson – The Citadel