Carrie L. Knatz, PE
Carrie Knatz is a senior engineer with over two decades of experience in the design of water and wastewater projects, specializing in hydraulics. She is an internationally recognized leader in the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling for water treatment design.
“Even after 17 years of performing CFD analyses for water treatment applications,” she says, “I am still surprised by modeling results. I love to analyze the reason for the results and come up with solutions to improve performance.”
She has served as an officer for the ASCE EWRI CFD Task Committee since inception in 2017 and authored two case study chapters in the CFD book published by the committee in 2019, which was selected for the 2020 ASCE State of the Art of Civil Engineering Award.
“I joined CDM Smith in 2000 as a new grad. It was an easy choice for me after interviewing in the Carlsbad office and meeting so many passionate engineers. The people at CDM Smith exude our core values and inspire me,” she says.
It’s critical to think both inside and outside the box to come up with the right answers.
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