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T. Prabhakar Clement, Ph.D.,
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MY RESEARCH & TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come” – Abraham Lincoln
“Chance favors only the prepared mind” – Louis Pasteur
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration" - Thomas Alva Edison
I
believe that research success is all about preparation and hard work. If
you are part my team, you will be prepared well to take utmost
advantage of chances in life. Read this excellent commencement speech by Mr. Tim Cook and his thoughts on preparation; he is an AU-trained industrial engineer and now the CEO of Apple Computers Inc.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. T. Prabhakar Clement
is a full professor in the Department
of Civil Engineering, Auburn University, where he currently holds the
distinguished title Arthur H. Feagin Chair Professor of Civil
Engineering. Dr. Clement was previously (from 1994 to 1999) a senior
research engineer at the Battelle Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, Washington. He later (1999-2002) worked as
senior lecturer of environmental engineering in the University of Western Australia, Perth,
Australia.
Dr. Clement has published over 65 peer-reviewed journal
articles
that have received over 1000 ISI citations with an Hirsch-Index of 18.
He has served as an associate editor for various scientific
journals
including American Geophysical Union journal Water Resources Research, ASCE's Journal of Hydrologic Engineering,
National Groundwater Association journal Ground Water, Soil Science Society of Amarica's Vadose Zone Journal, and the Journal of
Contaminant Hydrology. He has also served on two
National Academy of Sciences and Engineering panels, and numerous other
NSF and DOE review panels. His current research interests
include analysis of flow and reactive transport in groundwater systems,
laboratory-scale visualization of porous media flow, metal transport in
groundwater, numerical methods, bioremediation design, oil spill
assessment in sandy beach environments, and modeling of
environmental erosion processes.
He has supervised /co-supervised 6
PhD students, 24 masters students, 5 post-doctoral fellows, and several
undergraduate honors students.
Dr. Clement is the lead author of the US Department of Energy's public domain
bioremediation model RT3D.
He is also one of the co-authors of the US EPA’s natural attenuation screening
tool BIOCHLOR. His
research accomplishment related to the RT3D project received the Federal
Laboratory Consortium Seal of Achievement in 1999. He received the Senior
Research Award for Excellence from Auburn University's Alumni Engineering
Council in 2006, Outstanding Civil Engineering Facutly Member award from the
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering in 2006, and Arthur Arthur H. Feagin Chair
professorship in 2007. Dr. Clement is an adjunct graduate faculty of
Brigham Young University and the University of Alabama. He has given
research presentations and visited several universities and research labs
including the Seoul National University in Korea, USEPA Robert S. Kerr Lab,
Ada, Oklahoma, USEPA Research Lab, Athens, Georgia, University of Hong Kong,
University New Castle in Australia, University of Auckland in New Zealand, IIT-
Madras India, IIT-Bombay India, Denmark Technical University, Delft University,
Netherlands, Anna University-India, SRM University-India, University of
Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, Technical University of Cartagena in Spain, University
of Wollongong at Sydney, Vanderbilt University, Clemson University, Washington
State University, Georgia Tech, Colorado School Mines, Rice University, Florida
State, Louisiana State University, Missouri S&T-Rolla, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Indian Institute of Science-Bangalore, Berkeley
National Laboratory at UC Berkeley, Oak Ridge National Lab, Pacific Northwest
National Lab, Idaho National Lab, Washington University- St Louis, CSIRO Lab
Perth Australia, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Belgium, Kyambogo University, Uganda, Africa, and The University
of Hawaii. Dr. Clement is a registered Professional Engineer (Civil) in
the State of Washington. For more information, please download the full CV or
click on the links listed in the following table.
GRA positions Available
Expectations of M.S. and Ph.D. students
(before you apply, please read this article written by Dr. Brown)
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