Rodney A. Beadle, PE, CFM
President and Founder, Engineering Resource Associates, Inc.

Rod Beadle is President of Engineering Resource Associates, Inc. which he founded in Wheaton, Illinois in 1990. He is also a member of a disaster response team that often deploys quickly in the aftermath of a wide variety of disasters. Rod serves as a water, sanitation, and hygiene specialist tasked with providing reliable sanitation facilities and clean water. In October, 2014, Rod travelled to Liberia to manage the construction of a pilot community care center to provide emergency treatment capacity for Ebola victims. Rod will be discussing the challenges of working under stressful and difficult conditions and sharing a few of his experiences after coming home.

Rod Beadle is a civil engineer with over 30 years of experience in the design and construction of transportation and infrastructure projects. He has worked extensively as a humanitarian engineer on community development projects throughout the developing world with Engineering Ministries International (EMI) and Engineers Without Borders (EWB). He has served as a professional mentor for several EWB student chapters including Notre Dame’s. In 2010, he joined EMI’s disaster response team. He has been deployed as a water, sanitation, and hygiene specialist in Haiti, Pakistan, Sierra Leon, Kenya, and the Philippines.