Wayne H. Ludwig, Jr. 

Wayne began his professional career as a Wastewater Plant Operator Trainee for Harford County Department of Public Works in 1978. He took a rather diverse career ladder path as a Plant Operator, Senior Plant Operator, Lab Technician, (even a Shop Steward), Lab Supervisor, Maintenance Supervisor, Assistant Superintendent-Wastewater, Superintendent-Wastewater and has been Chief of Water and Sewer Operations for over 20 years. Harford County’s W&S Operations Section employs 90 personnel, has a $17M operating budget and oversees 3 major water and 3 wastewater facilities including the soon-to-be ENR 20 MGD Sod Run WWTP.

Always interested in staff development, Wayne has planned, organized and created training for Harford County Government; Baltimore area community colleges; and in 1997 he began working with MCET.

His course “Basic and Intermediate Activated Sludge” (001-84-3) was the first course ever certified by MDE as state certified training when their program began in 1984. Based on his experiences with his and other Maryland operations personnel, Wayne’s main interests are creating and teaching science and math related courses that are “Operator friendly”. 

A member of AWWA, WEF and APWA, Wayne has also presented several technical papers to regional and national conferences of the Water Environment Federation.

Wayne holds an AA degree in Science Lab Technology, BS degree in Chemistry from Towson and a Master’s Certificate in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins. He is certified as both an Operator and Superintendent in Water and Wastewater and he also serves on the Advisory Board to the Environmental Technology degree program at Harford Community College.