Course Presenter

Viney Aneja is a Professor in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University. He obtained his B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India; and MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Chemical Engineering, N. C. State University, Raleigh, N.C. Before joining the faculty of the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at N. C. State in 1987, he conducted and supervised research at Corporate Research and Development, General Electric Company, New York, and Northrop Service, in Research Triangle Park, NC, in the areas of environmental science and engineering and separations technology. In 2001 he was also appointed Professor of Environmental Technology, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden in 1979; at JawaharLal Nehru University in New Delhi, India in 1980; and at the Arrhenius Laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden in 1985.

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture appointed him as a member of the U.S. Agricultural Air Quality Task Force. He was a member of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board Environmental Engineering Committee; was Member of U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) Advisory Committees on Sustainability Research Strategy and Multi-Year Plan, 2006-2007; Aging Drinking Water and Waste Water Infrastructure Research Initiative, 2009; Integrated Nitrogen Committee, 2006-2010; Committee on Hydraulic Fracturing, 2010; and is a Member of EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) Panel on Estimating Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations, 2012-2013. The North Carolina Governor, Hon. Mike Easley appointed him Member, NC Governor's Task Force on Hazardous Materials, 2006-2007. He is a Member Representative of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.

Dr. Aneja’s industrial and academic research contributions have been extensively recognized. He won the Noryl Division Proprietary Innovation Award from General Electric in 1983, the Air Pollution Control Association Award for Distinguished Service in 1984, the General Electric Managerial Award in 1986, and at North Carolina State University he received the 1991-92 Outstanding Extension Service Award. In 1998 the Air and Waste Management Association gave him its Frank A. Chambers Award, the Association’s highest scientific honor; in 1999 he became a Fellow of the Association; in 2001 he received the Association’s Lyman A. Ripperton Award for distinguished achievement as an educator. He is the recipient of the 2007 North Carolina Award in Science, the highest award a civilian can receive from the Governor of North Carolina. In 2009 he received the Senior National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship. In 2010 he received Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. In 2010 he was invited by the U.S. White House Council on Environmental Quality to assist in the BP Gulf Spill.