Joel Melville, Ph.D.    Professor   Department of Civil Engineering   211 Harbert Engineering Center   Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5337    Phone: (+1)  334-844-6274   Fax: (+1) 334-844-6290   Email: melvijg@auburn.edu (or) joel.melville@eng.auburn.edu

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BIOGRAPHY

Joel G. Melville
 

EDUCATION
• PhD 1972 Engineering Mechanics Pennsylvania State U.
Minor Applied Mathematics
• M.S 1967 Engineering Mechanics U. of Texas, Austin
• B.S.   1965 Engineering Mechanics Pennsylvania State U.

EXPERIENCE
• 1992-present:  Professor, Auburn University
• 1993-1995:  Director, Alabama Water Resources Research Institute
• 1979-1992:  Associate Professor, Auburn University
• 1976-1979:  Assistant Professor,  University of Florida
• 1972-1976:  Research Engineer,  Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research
• 1967-1968:   Engineer,  Gulf Research and Development Co.

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
• ASCE, Environmental and Water Resources Institute
• ASEE
• AGU
• National Water Well Association
• Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers
• Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
• American Water Resources Association, Alabama Section

HONORS AND AWARDS
• Mortar Board, Favorite Educator Award, 2001
• Birdsong Merit Teaching Award, 1992
• Outstanding Teacher in Civil Engineering, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SUMMARY

• Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics
• Analytical and Numerical Modeling
• Experimental and field inquiry of civil engineering problems
• Ground Water
• Current research focus is in bridge hydraulics, which includes analytical and numerical modeling, field site investigations, and laboratory testing of field samples
EDUCATION INTERESTS AND SUMMARY
• Hydraulics
• Ground Water
• Numerical Methods

TEN RECENT REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS (Publications include chapters in 6 books, 35 journal articles, presentations at 30 national meetings, and 30 technical reports. )

BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS:
Molz, F.J., O. Güven, and Melville, J.G. (with contributions by A.E. Hess and F.L. Paillet), Measurement of Hydraulic Conductivity Distributions-A Manual of Practice, U.S, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA/600/8-90/046, Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory, Ada, OK, 1990, 60 pp.

Melville, J.G., Molz, F.J., and Güven, O., "Field Experimental Methods in Stratified Aquifers," In: Ground Water Contamination: Field Methods, ASTM Special Technical Publication 963, edited by A.G. Collinsand A.I. Johnson, American Society for Testing Materials, Philadelphia, PA, 1988. pp. 570-579.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Güven, O., J. Melville, J. Curry, “Nondimensional Analysis of Clear-Water Scour at Bridge Contractions in Cohesive Soils,” Proceedings of the First International Conference on Scour of Foundations, November, 2002, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

Güven, O, J. Melville, J. Curry, “Analysis of Clear-Water Scour at Bridge Contractions in Cohesive Soils,”   Transportation Research Record ,2003.

Melville, J.G., F.J. Molz, O. Güven, and M.A. Widdowson, "Multilevel Slug Tests with Comparisons to Tracer Data," Ground Water, Vol.29, No.6, pp.897-907, Nov-Dec. 1991.

Melville, J.G. and Paul N. Sims, "Analysis of Seepage over an Inclined, Impervious Bed," Ground Water, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp.716-772, Nov. Dec., 1987.

Molz, F.J., O. Güven, J.G. Melville, R.D. Crocker, and K.T. Matteson, "Performance, Analysis and Simulation of a Two Well Tracer Test at the Mobile Site," Water Resources Research., Vol. 22, No. 7, pp. 1031 1037, July, 1986.

Parr, A.D. and Melville, J.G., “Nearfield Performance of River Diffusers,” J. of The Environmental Engineering Div., ASCE,Vol. 107, EE5, October 1981, pp. 995-1008.