Trevor English

Trevor English is the Product Marketing Manager for Autodesk's Desktop Hydraulic Modeling Solutions and is a leading technology communicator. After working as a civil engineer in hydraulic modeling for many years, Trevor transitioned into journalism, where he became the Editor and Chief of Interesting Engineering, one of the leading STEM online publications. From there, he joined Autodesk on the Design and Manufacturing product marketing team, growing the adoption of digital transformation in the product design and automotive space. Trevor's work has been featured in the BBC, Discovery, How Stuff Works, and other top publications on the web. Trevor is also a STEM video producer and technology communicator, with a YouTube channel, Concerning Reality, having over 200,000 subscribers and 35 million views. He's passionate about the water industry and understanding the challenges engineers face in the space.

  • New Technical Information Hubs to support Autodesk Water desktop products

    The Autodesk Water team is excited to release our latest Technical Information Hubs for our desktop products. These newly released information hubs work to collect the wealth of information that various Autodesk teams provide to customers each and every day, all in one place. InfoWorks WS Pro Information Hub | autodesk.com InfoWorks ICM Information Hub…

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  • InfoWorks WS Pro 2024.4: Reserved runs in the cloud, live data configuration, and quality improvements

    The latest version of InfoWorks WS Pro is here, bringing improvements to the platform in a variety of ways. Perhaps most significantly, you now have access to reserved runs in the cloud, streamlining collaboration and workflows. Additionally, the development and QA teams have built in streamlined live data configurations and made a variety of quality improvements…

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  • HEC-RAS: Its history, benefits, drawbacks, and alternatives

    For much of human history, rivers were one of the most prevalent resources to civilization, serving as the liquid highways for goods and providing needed water for irrigation. It’s no wonder then why the world’s top minds have long toiled over how to control rivers and understand their flow. While understanding rivers presented persistent toil…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • InfoWater Pro 2024.3: SCADA Event Runs from Info360 and Hydraulic Diagnostics improvements

    Our development teams have been hard at work bringing new updates to InfoWater Pro this year. In the 2024.2 release, we rolled out fire flow simulations in the cloud, increasing speed and allowing modelers to save their local machines from intensive simulations. Notably, the Denver Water team said their fire flow“simulation times went from over 1.5 hours to…

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  • InfoWorks ICM Sewer vs. Flood vs. Ultimate: which one do you need?

    Autodesk’s InfoWork ICM is catchment modeling software which can be applied to hydraulic modeling challenges as diverse as: Goodbye, ‘Standard vs Ultimate’ In the past, InfoWorks ICM was available in two flavors: Standard and Ultimate. However, in June of 2025, Autodesk announced two new options for customers who didn’t require access to every toolset available in InfoWorks…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • Mitigating wet weather events with InfoWorks ICM: an overview of the software’s essential use cases

    Understanding and mitigating storm, sewer, and flooding events is a complex challenge known well by those in the water industry. In this post we walk through how InfoWorks ICM empowers users through the capacity planning process, Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) mitigation, and even walk through its integration with Autodesk Civil 3D. What are the essential…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • 3 reasons drainage designers choose InfoDrainage

    Building sustainable water infrastructure is at the core of our mission here at Autodesk. This is why our development teams have been hard at work building InfoDrainage into the foremost drainage design platform. It represents a single solution for sanitary and storm sewer design, all in an easy-to-use interface, with integrations into Civil 3D and…

    Drainage design

  • InfoWorks WS Pro 2024.1-3:  Improved cloud features, multi-run improvements, and enhanced engine stability 

    It’s been a while since we last talked about updates to InfoWorks WS Pro, but that doesn’t mean that our development and QA teams haven’t been delivering new tools and working to provide even greater value to water distribution modeling. We just released InfoWorks WS Pro 2024.3, which we’ll cover in this post, alongside what…

    Water distribution

  • Join Autodesk at WEFTEC 2023: What to expect every day

    WEFTEC 2023 is upon us, and many of our water industry experts are headed to Chicago ready to speak about customer needs across the entire water industry. We’ll also have product demonstrations available for anyone who’s interested in adding an Autodesk water industry product to their toolbelt or making the switch to Autodesk’s water solutions…

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  • The easiest way to migrate XPSWMM files into InfoWorks ICM: XP Importer

    Twenty years on from the first release of XPSWMM, the water industry has demanded simulation solutions that can efficiently handle large data sets and help modelers understand advanced flow conditions across multiple catchments, and simultaneously model different climate scenarios and mitigation options. It’s this demand for powerful modern modeling tools that drove our team to…

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