Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Clarkson
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Broader Educational
Activities Graduate Students and Visiting Scholars
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Research
Interests There are two general research areas
that have remained separate but ideas and methodologies developed in
one have crossed over to the other, thereby enriching each other. Granular Materials – Constitutive relations for a dry particulate material,
including the effect of particle spin, particle shape, as well as the
distribution of particle size. Transition of quasi-static to rapidly
sheared flows. Effects of electrostatic and other long range forces
on granular assemblies. Interaction of machine boundaries with granular
materials. Computational simulation of granular assemblies and polymer
flows. Sea Ice Dynamics – Constitutive relations of marginal ice zones. Wave
attenuation due to ice floe interactions in a wave field. Ice drift
and collision rate in wave fields. Formation of pancake ice, limiting
size and thickness of pancake ice covers. Ice productions rate in a
wave field. Full rheological properties and dispersion relation of a
general ice cover. Remote sensing analysis of ice motion. Laboratory
experiments of ice formation and evolution using cold room facilities.
Field experience in the Arctic (Greenland Sea) and the Antarctic (McMurdo/Scott
Base). Because of the multi-disciplinary nature
of these research fields, these research activities have experienced
collaboration with biologists, chemists, geologist, glaciologist, oceanographer,
and physicists
Teaching Interests Most courses taught are mechanics-based.
Although these courses often rely on mathematics, the emphasis has always
been on relating the mathematical results to the physical interpretation.
Only a sound understanding of the underlying physical question can motivate
the students to speak the mathematical language. The ability to speak
and comprehend the mathematical language can then be developed to apply
the knowledge of mechanics. Graduate
Courses Discrete Element Method, Coastal Engineering, Advanced
Fluid Mechanics, Groundwater and Seepage, Sediment Transport, River
and Estuarine Hydraulics, Hydrodynamic Dispersion, Continuum Mechanics,
Nonlinear Mechanics Undergraduate
Courses Statics, Dynamics, Engineering for Non-Engineers, Introduction
to Fluid Mechanics, Introduction to Engineering Use of Computers, Calculus
II, Elementary Differential Equation, Fourier Series and Boundary Value
Problems, Chaos and Coherency (Honors Science Course)
Outside of the research/teaching activities,
the following experience has widened my view of services a normal faculty
member can contribute to the young generation. Associate
Director of the Honors Program – Overlook the thesis
process, match and monitor 60 thesis students each year (juniors and
seniors) with mentors, provide research training/monitoring/advising,
and processing the review of theses; support academic advising and national
competitions. Integrated research into curriculum from the pre-freshman
to senior years. NSF
S-STEM program –
Mentoring, and enrichment
workshops, summer courses, and summer research opportunities for 60
under-represented students in STEM fields to accomplish: High retention,
high average GPA, and high summer research participation. NSF
International Research Experience for Undergraduate Students – From 2000-2013 brought
a total of 150 US undergraduate students to China for a 10-wk extensive
summer research program at four leading universities in Marine Science
and Engineering, and Advanced Materials. These students represent 43
different states in the US. |
Hayley H. Shen 132 Rowley Laboratories Civil and Environmental
Engineering Clarkson University Potsdam, NY 13699-5710 Phone: 315-268-6614; Fax
315-268-7985 E-mail: hhshen@clarkson.edu CV: PDF
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