Leo J. Titus, Jr., P.E.

Leo Titus is president of ECS Mid-Atlantic, LLC. A subsidiary of ECS, Ltd., the company is one of the nation’s leading geotechnical engineering, environmental consulting, construction materials testing and facilities engineering firms. Titus joined ECS in 1997 and has over 26 years of experience in geotechnical engineering and Special Inspections.

After graduating from Clarkson University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Titus earned a Master of Science in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Maryland and an MBA from the University of Mary Washington. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and several other states.

Titus is very active serving in leadership roles  for industry and charitable organizations, including Past President of The Committee for Dulles; Past President of WACEL (an association of geotechnical and construction inspection firms); Chairman of the ASTM E36 Main Committee; Chairman of the American Society of Engineers Committee of Civil Engineering Technologists; Vice President of The Builder’s Foundation (a Loudoun County, VA., based charitable organization); and Past President and Co-Founder of the Committee for Dulles Community Outreach.   Titus also serves on several other boards of directors including The Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA) and the George Mason University Advisory Board for the Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship (CREE),

Led by his passionate interest in education, Titus is a regular guest lecturer on multiple subjects at several universities, including George Mason University, Clarkson University, and Virginia Tech.  He also enjoys teaching civil engineering principles as part of a STEM program with local kindergarteners in Northern Virginia.  In 2017 he took on a position as an Adjunct Professor at Clarkson University.

Titus was a member of Fairfax County’s Urban Search and Rescue team (VA-TF1) for 11 years and was deployed as part of the search, rescue and recovery mission at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. That same year, he received the award for “Outstanding Contributions by a Civilian Member” by the Washington, D.C. post of the Society of American Military Engineers.

After losing his first wife to breast cancer in 2003, Titus and his three daughters have been major fundraisers for the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s National Race for the Cure.  Since 2004, the Titus family has raised over $250,000 to support breast cancer research and early detection programs for underserved communities.