Professor of Ocean and Civil Engineering (1084)
Expertise
Civil Engineering Hydraulics
Fluid mechanics related to civil engineering structures: dams, open channels, pipelines.
Coastal Engineering: Water wave mechanics; harbor, marina problems; ship and mooring issues; coastal structures, e.g., breakwaters, seawalls, etc.; storm damage; oil spillage in harbors; armor protection of submarine outfalls.
Ocean Engineering Water wave mechanics; ocean structures.
Naval Architecture
Served as an expert witness in a wide range of fluid related problems ranging from a personnel injury lawsuit in a case in a steel mill near Los Angeles to a multimillion dollar damage lawsuit caused by an oil leakage from a ship in the port of Los Angeles.
Experience
California Institute of Technology
Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus
Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Civil Engineering
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ford-Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow and Assistant
Professor of Civil Engineering
CONSULTING SUMMARY
Registered Civil Engineer in the States of California ( C 17505) and New Jersey (GE 19727).
Consultant to various organizations on problems in Hydraulics and Coastal Engineering such as: Bechtel Corp., Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Southern California Electric Co., Standard Oil of California, Port of Long Beach, Los Angeles County Sanitation District., Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Lab., Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S. Army Corps of Engrs.), Moffatt and Nichol Engrs., Engineering Science, Inc., Walt Disney Corp., John Carollo Engineers, Brown and Caldwell Engrs., J.G. Reutter Association, Byron Jackson Pump Co., United Nations, Warzyn Engrs., Boyle Engr.
Honors & Publications
John G. Moffatt-Frank E. Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award
American Society of Civil Engineers (1994)
International Coastal Engineering Award
American society of Civil Engineers (2003)
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1993).
Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Member of the International Association for Hydraulic Research, Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses
Sigma Xi; Tau Beta Pi; Chairman of Task Committee on Long Period Waves (ASCE)
Member of Task Committee on Mooring Stresses (ASCE)
Member of Awards committee of the Hydraulics Division (ASCE)
Past Chairman (1965) of Hydraulics Group of the Los Angeles Section of the ASCE ~Past Member of the Marine Board of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Engineering
Past Member of the Coastal Engineering Research Board of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Education
Sc.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.E. The Johns Hopkins University