About Dr. Steve Starrett, PE

Dr. Steve Starrett earned his bachelor of civil engineering from Missouri S&T in 1989 and his master degree and Ph.D. in water resources and environmental engineering from Iowa State University. He joined the civil engineering faculty at Kansas State University in 1994. Today, he is an associate professor of civil engineering and is director of the honor and integrity systems at Kansas State. Starrett is also the director of the civil engineering undergraduate program.  With a key interest in engineering ethics, he has developed and taught courses on the subject and is near completion of co-authoring a book titled, Pursuing Engineering Ethics Through Real World Case Studies. Active in the National Institute for Engineering Ethics, Starrett served on its executive board from 2012 to 2014. He is currently the president-elect of ASCE’s Environmental and Water Resources Institute, and has served as the chair of the ASCE Committee on Ethical Practice. The National Academy of Engineering recently recognized one of his courses as an exemplar course in engineering ethics education.

Starrett and his wife, Shelli, a 1988 electrical engineering graduate of S&T, live on a farm near Manhattan, Kan., where she is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Kansas State. They have three children.