Krista Rule Wigginton, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Graduate & Professional Education
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Michigan
Dr. Krista Rule Wigginton is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Education at the University of Michigan College of Engineering in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
As Associate Dean, Wigginton is responsible for the education and welfare of over 3,300 Master’s and doctoral Michigan Engineering students enrolled in 60 graduate degree programs. She is also responsible for the college’s preeminent online and professional education, which serves over 2,000 learners annually.
Associate Dean Wigginton is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the faculty at UM, she was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2011-2012. Her research focuses on applications of environmental biotechnology in drinking water and wastewater treatment. In particular, her research group develops new methods to detect and analyze the fate of emerging pollutants in the environment. Dr. Wigginton received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Idaho, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech. After completing her Ph.D. degree, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland from 2008-2011.