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University Courses Taught:

CEE 526 - Design of Hydraulic Systems  (Winter 2007)

    Hydraulic design of piping systems including pumps and networks; pump system design including variable speed operation, cavitation, and wet well design; waterhammer and other transient phenomena; control valves and flow metering considerations; hydraulic control structures.

 

 

CEE 325 - Fluid Mechanics

    Principles of mechanics applied to real and ideal fluids. Fluid properties and statics; continuity, energy, and momentum equations by control volume analysis; differential equations of motion for laminar and turbulent flow; dimensional analysis and similitude; boundary layers, drag, and lift; incompressible flow in pipes; fluid measurement and turbomachinery. Lectures and laboratory.

 

 

CEE 402 - Professional Issues and Design

    Multidisciplinary team design experience including consideration of codes, regulations, alternate solutions, economic factors, sustainability, constructability, reliability, and aesthetics in the solution of a civil or environmental engineering problem. Professionalism and ethics in the practice of engineering.

 

 

CEE 421 - Hydrology and Floodplain Hydraulics

    Fundamentals of surface-water hydrology, flow in open channels, and flood hazard mitigation. Rainfall-runoff relations. Unit hydrograph method. Uniform and nonuniform flow in open channels. Measurement and control of river flow. Flood waves in rivers, floodplains, and reservoirs. Design of storage basins, storm channels, and culverts. Lecture, laboratory and computation.

 

 

CEE 428 - Groundwater Hydraulics

    Importance and occurrence of groundwater; chemical and physical properties of the groundwater environment; basic principles of groundwater flow; measurement of parameters; pump test design and analysis; transport of contaminants; use of computer models for the simulation of flow and transport problems.

 

 

CEE 521 - Open Channel Hydraulics

    Conservation laws for transient flow in open channels; shallow-water approximation; the method of characteristics; simple waves and hydraulic jumps; nonreflective boundary conditions; dam-break analysis; overland flow; prediction and mitigation of flood waves.

 

 

CEE 522 - Sediment Transport

    Mechanics of sediment transport processes in Fluvial systems; initiation of motion; bed forms; resistance to flow; suspended sediment transport; bed load transport; cohesive sediments; geomorphology principles.

 

 

CEE 525 - Turbulent Mixing in Buoyant Flows

    Analysis of submerged turbulent buoyant jets; scaling relations; consideration of ambient effects including density stratification, ambient currents, and limited depth; numerical models for buoyant jet mixing; hydraulics of two-layer stratified flow and control on mixing processes.

 

 

CEE 527 - Coastal Hydraulics

    General description of wave systems including spectral representation; solutions to oscillatory wave equation; wave breaking; harbor resonance; wave shoaling, refraction, and diffraction; wave forecasting; selection of design wave conditions; forces on coastal structures; shoreline erosion processes.

 

Short Courses:

"Advanved Groundwater Hydraulics" - with Jacob Bear,  1980

 

Lecture in "Sanitary Landfill Design" - (Cover Linders),  1989

 

Lecture in "Biotechnical Slope Protection" - (Coastal Slopes),  1990

 

Review Courses for PE Exam - conducted by Engineering Society of Detroit, includes sessions in Hydraulics, Hydrology, Groundwater, and Sanitary Engrg.

 

Presenter "Dam Removal - Lessons Learned" - workshop sponsored by ASCE,  2004

 

Pan American Advanced Study Institute, "Balancing Hydropower Development and Biodiversity: Is Sustainability in an Adaptive Management Framework Achievable?"  Co-organizer; presented lectures on "Water Quality Modeling" and Temperature and Dissolved Gas Modeling Case Study."

 

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