FOUNDER PROFILE
M. Hanif Chaudhry
Dr. Chaudhry, President, has over 45 years experience as a consultant, researcher, design engineer, and faculty member and has published 5 books, over 130 archival publications and authored over 50 technical reports. He developed the CAI computer software WH (utilized worldwide), CHAN, and SUR. He is presently Associate Dean (International Programs) and CEC Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina. He is serving as a member of the South Carolina Floodwater Commission.
Dr. Chaudhry has acted as specialist consultant in all six continents to organizations, such as U.S. Agency for International Development, United Nations Development Program; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; California Department of Water Resources; New Brunswick Power Commission, Canada; Inter-American development Bank; Instituto Ecuatoriano de Electrification, Ecuador; Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Costa Rica; Institute for Computer Applications, NASA; Punjab Irrigation Department, Pakistan; World Bank; various national and international public utilities, consulting engineering and law firms.
Honors and Awards (Partial List)
Dr. Chaudhry, President, has over 45 years experience as a consultant, researcher, design engineer, and faculty member and has published 5 books, over 130 archival publications and authored over 50 technical reports. He developed the CAI computer software WH (utilized worldwide), CHAN, and SUR. He is presently Associate Dean (International Programs) and CEC Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina. He is serving as a member of the South Carolina Floodwater Commission.
Dr. Chaudhry has acted as specialist consultant in all six continents to organizations, such as U.S. Agency for International Development, United Nations Development Program; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; California Department of Water Resources; New Brunswick Power Commission, Canada; Inter-American development Bank; Instituto Ecuatoriano de Electrification, Ecuador; Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Costa Rica; Institute for Computer Applications, NASA; Punjab Irrigation Department, Pakistan; World Bank; various national and international public utilities, consulting engineering and law firms.
Honors and Awards (Partial List)
- American Society of Civil Engineers, Hydraulic Structures Medal, 2024.
- American Society of Civil Engineers, Distinguished Member, 2016 (Highest society honor, 679 elected in 164 years history).
- American Society of Civil Engineers, Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award , 2008 (Most prestigious ASCE award in water resources).
- Doctor Honoris Causa and campus street named Hanif Chaudhry, 1999, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain (other 1999 recipients Nobel Laureates Marcus and Saramago).
- University of South Carolina's Highest university, college, and department awards for research, teaching and service.
- Open-Channel Flow, Third Edition, Springer, 2022 (563 pp).
- Applied Hydraulic Transients, Third Edition, Springer, 2014 (583 pp); translated into Chinese, 2014.
- Hydraulic Engineering, Second Edition, Wiley, 1998 (653 pp) (with Roberson and Cassidy).
- Closed-Conduit Flow
(Chaudhry and Yevjevich, eds.), Water Resources Publications, (416 pp) 1981.
- Computer Modeling of Free-Surface and Pressurized Flows
(Chaudhry and Mays, eds.), Kluwer, (741 pp) 1994.
Journals / Engineering Societies
(partial list)
- Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (1998 to present), Member (1969 - 1998).
- Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1973 to present).
- Member, International Association for Hydraulic Research (1970 to present).
- Associate Editor, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering , American Society of Civil Engineers (1985 to present)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Fluid Engineering, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1980-1984)
- Member, Task Committee on Theory and Numerical Modeling of Flow in Steep Channels (Parent Committee: Computational Hydraulics Committee), American Society of Civil Engineers, 1993 to 1996.
- Chairman (1986-1987), Vice Chairman (1985-1986), Secretary (1984-1985), Computational Hydraulics Committee, American Society of Civil Engineers.
