BenHodges

Bio
Ben R. Hodges is a tenured professor in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) at The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on water flow in natural and man-made environments, including flood analyses, stormwater systems, river flows, lake dynamics, estuary circulation and oil spill modeling. Research contributions include (i) new computational methods for efficient simulation models, (ii) geospatial analyses for translating high-resolution data (e.g., lidar) to practical model scales, (iii) wrapper systems for running multi-model simulations for oil spill uncertainty analyses.

Hodges’ favorite class to teach is Elementary Fluid Mechanics, a course that is typically taken by second-year students in the CAEE program. Fluid mechanics is the complement to Statics, Dynamics, and Solid Mechanics, which adds the extra challenge to engineering analyses: “How do you analyze a system when you apply a force, and it rapidly deforms?”

Educational Qualifications
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 1997
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, George Washington University, 1991
B.S., Marine Engineering/Nautical Science, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, 1984

Select Awards & Honors

• Young Investigator Program Award – Office of Naval Research (2001) 
• Admiral Emory S. Land Medal (1984) 

Related Websites
Hodges Research Group
Center for Water and the Environment

Select Publications