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Ben R. Hodges is a tenured professor at 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, flood analyses, stormwater systems, river flows, lake dynamics, estuary circulation, and oil spill modeling. His contributions include new computational methods for efficient simulation models, geospatial analyses that translate high-resolution data, and wrapper systems for multi-model simulations and oil spill uncertainty analyses. Hodges teaches Elementary Fluid Mechanics, which is typically taken by second-year students in the CAEE program. This course complements Statics, Dynamics, and Solid Mechanics, adding an extra challenge to engineering analyses. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University in 1997 and holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from George Washington University and a B.S. in Marine Engineering/Nautical Science from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
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