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T. Prabhakar Clement, Ph.D.,
P.E., F. ASCE
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MY RESEARCH & TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
“I will prepare and someday my chance will come” – Abraham Lincoln
“Chance favors only the prepared mind” – Louis Pasteur
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration (or preparation)" - Thomas Alva Edison
“Excellence
is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention,
sincere effort (preparation), and intelligent execution”- Aristotle
I
believe that success in research comes from "preparation" and hard work. If
you joined my team, you will be prepared well to take the utmost
advantage of opportunties (chances) you will get in life. Read this excellent AU commencement speech, where Auburn alumnusTim Cook (CEO of Apple Computers Inc.) talks about the importance of preparation and hardwork.
BIOGRAPHY [Download Full CV] [Journal articles] or [Google Scholar Data]
Dr.
T. Prabhakar Clement
is a full professor in the Department
of Civil Engineering at Auburn University where he currently holds a
distinguished professorship title--Harold Vince Groome Jr. Endowed
Professor. Dr.
Clement joined Auburn University as an associate professor in 2002 and
became a full professor in 2007; he was awarded the Arthur H. Feagin
Chair
Professorship in 2007, which he occupied from 2007 to 2012. He
was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE) in 2013.
Before joining Auburn University,
Dr. Clement was a senior
research engineer (1994-1999) at the Battelle Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, Washington. He later worked as
a tenure-track faculty member (1999-2002) in the Department of
Environmental
Engineering (Center for Water Research, CWR), University of
Western Australia, Perth,
Australia.
Dr. Clement has published 75 peer-reviewed journal
articles (download CV)
that
have received over 1250 ISI web of science citations with an
Hirsch-Index of 21 (Google Scholar data: over 110 articles and
reports, 2225 citations, and H-index of 27). He has served as
associate editor
for several 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 8
PhD graduates, 25 masters graduates, 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, Arthur Arthur H. Feagin
Research Chair
professorship in 2007, and Groome Jr. Endowed Professorship in
2012. Dr. Clement has served as a member of adjunct graduate
faculty at
Brigham Young University and at 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 Google Scholar Data links.
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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