Dr. Akram Hossain
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Professor Phone: (509) 372-7314 |
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Environmental), 1989 - Washington State University
- M.S., Environmental Engineering, 1986 - Washington State University
- M.S., Civil Engineering (Geotechnical), 1984 - Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- B.Sc.Eng., Civil Engineering, 1979 - Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Washington State University - Tri-Cities, 2000-present
- Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, Washington State University - Tri-Cities, 1994-00
- Senior Technical Consultant, Rust Environment and Infrastructure, Greenville, SC, 1993-94
- Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering & Construction, Bradley Univ., Peoria, IL, 1992-93
- Technical Consultant, Beiling Consultant, Molline, IL, 1992-93
- Project Engineer, SEC Donohue, Inc., Greenville, SC, 1990-92
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, WSU, 1989-90
- Assistant Professor, Univ. of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1982-84
- Lecturer, University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1979-84
RESEARCH
- Groundwater flow
- Contaminant transport modeling
TEACHING
- Unit Operations in Environmental Engineering
- Unit Processes in Environmental Engineering
- Flow and Contaminant Transport Dynamics
- Advanced Groundwater Hydrology
- Environmental Geotechnology
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Hossain, M.A. and D.R. Yonge. 1999. "Accuracy of Taylor Galerkin Model for Contaminant Transport in Groundwater." Applied Mathematics and Computation, 102:109-119.
- Hossain, M.A. and D.R. Yonge. 1999. "Simulating Advective-Dispersive Transport in Groundwater - An Accurate Finite Difference Model." Applied Mathematics and Computation, 105:221-230.
- Hossain, M.A. and A.S. Miah. 1999. "Crank-Nocolson-Galerkin Model for Transport in Groundwater - Refined Criteria for Accuracy." Applied Mathematics and Computation, 105:173-181.
- Hossain, M.A. and M.R. Taha. 2000. "Simulating Advective-Dispersive Transport by Finite Elements: Criteria for Accuracy of an Explicit Runge-Kutta Method." Applied Mathematics and Computation, 112:309-316.
- Hossain, M.A. and M.E. Barber. 2000. "Optimized Petrov-Galerkin Model for Advective-Dispersive Transport," Applied Mathematics and Computation, 115:1-10.
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