teaching mentors

Introduction
Cautions
Sign-up
Mentors

questions?

updated 00-02-11

This idea of mentors is old but untried in this Internet format.
Knowledgeable engineers (usually friends of mine who are likely to be engineers and hydrologists) volunteer to help students and subscribe their names and addresses with a brief outline of their experience to the Teaching webpage.
Students select a mentor from the list of links below, and hopefully do not fire off but very carefully formulate a request for advice - emails are not monitored or controlled.
Usually everyone will know who is emailing. If there are difficulties please let me know.
I hope that this works; I want to thank you all for helping anyway!

Cautions - on not being annoying, expecting too much, volunteering and communicating at your own risk!

Mentors are glad to be of assistance to our students. But due to limitations of time, they will appreciate it if questions are clearly defined and concisely stated for a quick and crisp response.
Usually the communication is helpful, the questions and responses being adequately worded, but there is a small chance that the question or information is incorrectly formulated - perhaps the question or information is based on specific or limited experience, maybe in what is after all a remote part of the world. Everyone should take care to make the cautions clear.
In doing so, please take care to avoid email flares: be especially tactful and use emoticons :) copiously!
Students must always give careful, detailed credit for all sources of info. This obviously helps in those rare cases where the info does not coincide with what was expected by the instructors.

How to sign up

If you are interested in helping engineering teaching students per email, please email me by clicking on the link below, and giving in the message text on three separate lines: a. your full email address, b. your name and title if appropriate, and c. a one line description of your experience, e.g.

doej@net2.eos.uoguelph.ca
Doe, Prof. Janet (Jane)
40 yrs designing, constructing, researching, consulting urban water supplies and drainage systems, specializing in modelling the management of stormwater impacts.

Now please email the info by clicking here. Note that transfer of the information is not automatic: there is an intermediate step and I may not get to it for a while. Also if we have sufficient expertise in a particular area, we may have to graciously decline some kind offers.

Burn, Prof. Donald (Don) - Manitoba, Canada
Professor of hydrology and water resources with specialization in statistical hydrology (regional flood frequency analysis and drought analysis), climate change impact detection, and streamflow forecasting.

Bolzicco, Jose Ernesto Angel (pepe) . Santa Fe, Argentina
Water Resources Engineer University Professor; 15 years designing, constructing, researching, teaching and consulting in hydrogeology and hydrology. Specializing in well design, water supply design, water quality, frequency analysis of extreme events, artificial recharge, relations between precipitation and phreatic levels and water balance.

DePue, Michael, Maryland.
P.E. Senior Water Resources Engineer, PBS&J, Bowie, MD, USA
6 years experience in 1-D and 2-D hydraulic modeling using a wide range of computer programs. Experience includes consulting, laboratory modeling, technical publications, and seminar presentation.

Dickinson, Trevor (Ph.D., P.Eng.) Guelph, Ontario
Professor Emeritus, teaching, research and consulting in hydrologic processes and their modelling, specializing in extreme rainfall, surface depressions and storage, infiltration, surface runoff, soil erosion and sediment transport.

Glover, Tim Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Hydrogeochemist/ground water hydrologist with 13 years experience in ground water flow, especially in karstic environments.

Gracely, Brett W., P.E. Lakewood, Colorado, USA
Water Resource Engineer 5 years experience related to environmental monitoring, water supply yield analysis, groundwater studies, lysimetry, floodplain and sedimentation.

Michael Incledon, P.E. Orange, California, USA
9 years experience in hydrologic and hydraulic engineering, working for a small civil consulting firm serving public and private clients and the Corps of Engineers.

James, William (Bill), P.Eng. Ontario, Canada.
Prof. of Water resources Engineering, 40 years experience designing, constructing, researching and consulting on urban water supplies and drainage systems, specializing in modelling the management of stormwater impacts.

Lenny Kong, P.E., MBA Seattle, Washington, USA
Software Engineer, Engenious Systems, Inc. 10 years in private consulting concentrating in drainage design and analysis in support of public and private sector projects (shopping centers, transit stations, subdivisions, etc.), using SWMM, HEC-1, TR-20 and spreadsheet models. Currently chief architect & programmer in the development of hydrology software for Engenious Systems.

Michael Mark
Retired hydrologist, 25 years experience operational river/flood forecasting.

Paul C. Marsh, P.Eng. Toronto, Canada
Water Resources Engineer, 10 years of experience, working with a variety of ag drainage systems, stormwater management, hydraulics and Flood Forecasting.

McKerchar, (Dr) Alistair . Christchurch, New Zealand
Engineer/hydrologist, about 25 yrs experience of hydrological data collection and archiving, and regional studies of flood and drought. Work experience in USA, UK and NZ.

McKereghan, Peter (Pete) RG, CEG, CHG Emeryville, California, USA
Hydrogeologist, with 10 yrs experience in environmental ground water investigations, specializing in contaminant fate and transport modeling, and database management.

Moaven-Hashemi, Ahmad Newcastle, England, UK
Grad student and tutor, 3 years experience. Consulting drainage systems. Specializing in the relationship between rainfall, catchment response and flood frequency.

Pitt, Robert (Bob) Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Assoc. Prof., 25 years experience in consulting, state agency, and education environments. I am mostly involved in the integration of water quality and hydrology design considerations, specifically urban stormwater.

Rao, Dr. G. V. V., P.E. Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Affiliate Professor and consulting Water Resources/ Environmental Engineer, 35 years experience on a wide variety of projects in various parts of U.S., Canada and 30 other countries. Specializing in Conflict/ Dispute resolution in water resources/ environmental resource management.

Schooley, Jason Hamilton, Ontario Canada
Water Resouces Engineer, 2.5 yrs designing, constructing stormwater management systems for urban developments in Golden Horseshoe area of Ontario.

Shamsi, Dr. Uzair Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USA
Senior Technical Manager in a water and wastewater consulting engineering. 10 years experience in hydraulic and hydrologic modeling of water and wastewater systems.

Smolen, Michael D. Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
Professor and Water Quality Coordinator for OSU Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 25 years experience in research, extension, and teaching in watershed monitoring, modeling, policy and data analysis on nonpoint source pollution control programs.

Sprenger, Reinhard, P.Eng. Manitoba, Canada
Consulting engineer with 22 years experience in urban drainage especially combined sewer basement flood relief projects. SWMM user since 1975.

Visocky, Adrian P. , Champaign IL, USA
Senior hydrologist and Director, Illinois State Water Survey office of ground-water resource evaluation & management, experience in Ground-Water Resources, especially with regard to aquifer and well hydraulics, including the classical analytical field approaches to obtaining aquifer hydraulic properties.

Walker, Noah P.E. Solana Beach, California
18 years of experience in water and wastewater systems planning and engineering. Specializing in the integration of rainfall and flow measurements for calibration of a model for Master Planning.

Warwick, John J. Reno, Nevada, USA
Director University of Nevada Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences. Specializing in surface water quantity and quality simulation.