Michelle H. Teng Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Office: Holmes Hall 337 Phone number: (808) 956-5060 Fax number: (808) 956-5014 E-mail address: teng@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu Personal Homepage: http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/~teng

    Area(s) of Specialty and Research Interest:

• hydrodynamics, coastal and hydraulic engineering: water wave generation and propagation, coastal flooding due to storm surge and tsunamis, sediment transport in tidal inlets, bridge scour, transport of pollutant and nutrient in marine environment, numerical simulation

    Education:

• Ph.D., Engineering Science, California Institute of Technology, 1990
• M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1987
• B.E., Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1985

    Professional Registration:

• Licensed Professional Engineer (PE), civil engineering, license #9788-C, Hawaii, since 1999.

    Experience:

• Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1998 - present.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1992 - 1998.
• Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, summer 1994.
• Associate Engineer, California Institute of Technology, 1990-1992.
• Consultant, Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research, California, 1990-1991.

    Courses Taught:

• CEE270: Applied Mechanics I: Statics
• CEE271: Applied Mechanics II: Dynamics
• CEE320: Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals
• CEE330: Environmental Engineering
• CEE421: Engineering Hydraulics
• CEE422: Environmental Fluid Mechanics
• CEE622: Fluid Mechanics
• CEE630: Water Resources Systems Planning and Management - Part 5: Coastal Engineering and Management

    Professional Activities:

• Member, Review Panels, U.S. National Science Foundation, 2000, 2002, 2003.
• Chair, Fluids Technical Committee, Division of Engineering Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2002-present.
• Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2002-present.
• Guest Editor, with K.H. Wang, R. Baddour, and M. Hajj, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Special Issue: Recent Developments in Modeling of Linear and Nonlinear Water Waves, and Turbulent Flows. Vol.125, No.7, 1999.
• Special Editor, with K.H. Wang and H.C. Chen, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Special Issue: Advanced Experimental Techniques in Environmental Fluid Mechanics. Vol.129, No.10, 2003.
• Member, Technical Program Committee, International Offshore and Polar Engineering (ISOPE) Annual Conference Series, 1998-present.
• Member, Tsunami Technical Review Committee, State Civil Defense, State of Hawaii, 1999-present.

    Awards and Honors:

• Hi Chang Chai Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002.
• Faculty Member, Chi Epsilon National Civil Engineering Honor Society, since 1995.
• ASCE Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1993.
• Charles Lee Powell Foundation Graduate Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 1989-1990.

    Research Grant Activities:

1. Teng, M.H. (P.I.) and Cheng, E.D.H. (Co-P.I.) "Instrumentation and monitoring of sand plugging and bridge scour at selected streams in Hawaii", funded by Federal Highway Administration and Hawaii Department of Transportation, 05/15/00-05/14/05.
2. Teng, M.H. (P.I.) and Cheung, K.F. (Co-P.I.) "An improved prediction model for tsunami run-up and coastal inundation in Hawaii: Phase I: model development and verification", funded by NOAA Sea Grant College Program and NOAA Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR), 03/01/99-06/29/01.
3. Teng, M.H. (P.I.) and Cheung, K.F. (Co-P.I.) "An improved prediction model for tsunami run-up and coastal inundation in Hawaii: Phase II: inundation risk analysis for Hawaii", funded by NOAA Sea Grant College Program and NOAA Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR), 03/01/01-06/30/03.
4. Cheung, K.F. (P.I.) and Teng, M.H. (Co-P.I.) "A real-time simulation package for storm surge and wave run-up", funded by NASA Office of Earth Science, 09/01/99-12/31/01.
5. Teng, M.H. (P.I.) and Liu, C.C.K. (Co-P.I.) "3-D numerical modeling of nearshore circulation around Oahu Island", funded by US Geological Survey WRIP Program, 07/01/93-12/31/94.

    Selected Publications:

1. Teng, M.H. 2000 Boussinesq solution for solitary waves in uniform channels with sloping side walls. Journal of Mechanical Engineering Sciences, Series C, Vol.214, pp.781-787.
2. Shi, A., Teng, M.H. and Wu, T.Y. 1998 Propagation of solitary waves through significantly curved shallow water channels. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 362, pp.157-176.
3. Teng, M.H. and Wu, T.Y. 1997 Effects of channel cross-sectional geometry on long wave generation and propagation. Physics of Fluids, Vol. 9, No. 11, pp.3368-3377.
4. Teng, M.H. and Wu, T.Y. 1997 Effect of disturbance length on resonantly forced nonlinear shallow water waves. International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp.262-268.
5. Teng, M.H. 1997 Solitary wave solution to Boussinesq equations. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Vol. 123, No. 3, pp.138-141.
6. Teng, M.H. and Wu, T.Y. 1994 Evolution of long waves in variable channels. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol.266, pp.303-317.
7. Teng, M.H. and Wu, T.Y. 1992 Nonlinear water waves in channels of arbitrary shape. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol.242, pp.211-233.