Brian D. Barkdoll is a professor at Michigan Technological
University in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial
Engineering. He received his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of
Akron, MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and
PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Iowa. He has spent 4 years as
an engineer for the U.S. Peace Corps in Nepal. He left the faculty at the
University of Mississippi in August 2002 to join the faculty at Michigan
Technological University. His teaching interests include fluid mechanics,
hydraulics, hydrology, sediment transport, contaminant transport, and water
collection and distribution. His research interests are in sedimentation,
scour, oxygen transfer, clay permeability, vortices, acoustics, stream
restoration, dams and reservoirs, intakes, water distribution systems,
international development, and environmental sustainability. He is a member of
the ASCE Sedimentation Committee and the Environmental Hydraulics Committee and
the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES). He has
won the Daniel W. Mead Award for Younger Members of the American Society of
Civil Engineers and the Chi Epsilon James M. Robbins Excellence-in-Teaching
Award for the S.W. District. He is a Diplomate of the Academy of Water
Resources Engineers (D.WRE). He is currently the Chair of the Sedimentation
Technical Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
