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Program Area: Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Education Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1977 M.S., Washington State University, 1973 B.S., Washington State University, 1971 Honors - Lorenz G. Straub Award (by St. Anthony Falls Hydraulics Lab, for most meritorious Hydraulics Ph. D. dissertation), 1977 - University of Michigan Class of 38E Distinguished Service Award, 1980 - James R. Rumsey (publication award from Michigan Water Pollution Control Federation), 1983 - J.C. Stevens Award (ASCE publication award), 1986 - ASCE Student Chapter "Professor of the Year," Teaching award, 1990, 93, 95, 99 - ASCE, Ann Arbor Branch, Engineer of the Year, 1999 - Michigan Section, ASCE, Outstanding Civil Engineer award, 1999 - Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2001 Professional Affiliation and Activities: - Associate Editor for ASCE's Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. - Member of several technical committees within the American Society of Civil Engineers. - USEPA Science Advisory Board - D-CORMIX Review Panel, 1998-99. - City of Ann Arbor - Sanitary Sewer Overflow Prevention Task Force, member 1999-2001. - Great Lakes Commission - Technical Experts Panel, Ecological Impacts of Water Withdrawals from the Great Lakes Basin, 2001-02 Technical Interests: I am interested in applications at the intersection of fluid mechanics and environmental engineering, particularly associated with experimental laboratory research. Recent laboratory studies include an investigation of processes controlling physical stability of contaminated fine-grained marine sediments, controls on total mixing from marine discharge of wastewater through outfall structures, physical processes associated with the rapid filling of stormwater conduits, and mitigation of wave impacts in Great Lakes harbors. I am also interested in the utilization of the experimental findings from these studies in the development of computation models, including the development of numerical models to simulate the rapid filling problem in stormwater conduits including the role of trapped air and in model development of buoyant jet models for predicting the mixing achieved in wastewater outfall discharges. Selected Publications R. M. Olson and S. J. Wright, "Essentials of Engineering Fluid Mechanics," 5th edition, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1990. M. Ulasir and S.J. Wright, "Influence of Downstream Control and Limited Depth of Flow Hydrodynamics of Impinging Buoyant Jets," Environmental Fluid Mechanics, vol. 3, pp. 85-107, 2003. S.J. Wright, R.K. Mohan, M.P. Brown, and C.C. Kim, "Filter Design Criteria for Sediment Caps in Rivers and Harbors," Journal of Coastal Research, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 353-362. L.G. Glascoe, S.J. Wright, and L.M. Abriola, "Potential Influence of Advection-Induced Phase Change on Bioventing," Journal of Environmental Engineering, Vol. 125, No 12, 1999, pp. 1093-1102. S.J. Wright and D. Paez-Rivadeneira, "Density Intrusions with Large Relative Thickness," Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, Vol. 24, 1996, 129-137. |
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