Helen Muga, Pacific Water

The Ohio State University

Helen Muga, PhD, is founder of Pacific Water, a business that provides innovative water products and services. She developed Pacific Water as a way to expose her students to the business world of water, and to show them how to build a business from the ground up. She and her students design and build residential and commercial water treatment systems that minimize the use of plastic that provide good quality, clean water. Her intent is for Pacific Water to be a leading water company in developing and manufacturing innovative water technologies. Dr. Muga is program director and assistant professor of engineering at Baldwin Wallace University. She also was one of two founders of the Department of Engineering at the University of Mount Union. Prior to moving to Alliance, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida, Tampa. As one of the the first Papua New Guinean women to hold a doctorate in an engineering field, she is a strong proponent of providing women engineers more opportunities and encouraging them to remain in engineering.