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MS Advising

Year: 2010
Name: Mr. Christopher Siebenmorgen
Organization: Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Kansas State University
Thesis: Hydrologic Indices Analysis of Climate Change in a Northeast Kansas Watershed

BAE 669/869 – Advanced Watershed Modeling

Year: 2010, 2012
College: Kansas State University
Role: Lead Co-Instructor

Summary

Undergraduate course on study and evaluation of physical processes at the watershed scale using hydrologic and water-quality models. Fundamental principles of hydrologic cycle are discussed; rainfall excess and runoff hydrographs, overland and channel flow, detention ponds, wetlands, and etc. Impacts of climate change on hydrologic regimes in Kansas are explored. In-class and homework projects on simple and complex hydrologic and watershed models: TR-55, STEPL, BASINS, and SWAT.

ATM 661 – Water, Wastewater and Watershed Management

Year: 2010, 2011
College: Kansas State University
Role: Guest Instructor

Summary:

Multidisciplinary undergraduate course on watershed sources, fate, and transport of pollutants, with focus on issues of the prairie agroecosystem, and impacts of watershed protection and restoration strategies on water and environmental quality. I developed a section on watershed models and environmental assessment of non-point source pollution.

BAE 660 – Natural Resources Engineering II

Year: 2009
College: Kansas State University
Role: Co-Instructor

Summary:

Undergraduate course on design and operative problems of irrigation/water application systems: topics on water balance; non-point source pollution and water quality; wetland and detention pond design, and hydraulic routing are discussed. WinTR-55 hydrologic model is used for design project.

BAE 4013 – Transport Processes in Biological Systems

Year: 2006
College: University of Minnesota
Role: Lead Instructor

Summary:

Undergraduate course on application of thermodynamics, fluid flow, heat/mass transfer to design problems involving biological processes and materials at cell, organism, and system level. Agricultural, environmental, food, and bioprocess applications are formulated and solved by analytical and numerical methods involving computer programming assignments in Visual Basic.

Fluid Mechanics

Year: 1996-1998
College: Kazan State Power Engineering University, Kazan, Russia
Role: Lead Instructor

Summary:

Included fluid statics, differential and finite control volume analysis with continuity, momentum, and energy equations, Bernoulli and Euler equations, incompressible viscous flow and Navier-Stokes equation, dimensional analysis, pipe flow, introduction to turbulence

Heat and Mass Transport

Year: 1996-1998
College: Kazan State Power Engineering University, Kazan, Russia
Role: Lead Instructor

Summary:

Undergraduate course on fundamentals of transport processes, application of heat and mass transport equations to solve real-life industrial problems

Thermodynamics

Year: 1996-1998
College: Kazan State Power Engineering University, Kazan, Russia
Role: Lead Instructor

Summary:

Undergraduate course on fundamental principles of thermodynamics applied to the needs of power-engineering industry

Summer Campus Internship Program

Year: 2009
College: Kansas State University
Role: Supervisor

Summary:

Supervised three multicultural interns in research projects on identification of critical areas within three watersheds in east-central Kansas by utilizing ArcGIS tools

Summer Internship Program

Year: 2002
College: U.S. Army High Performance Computing Research Center and University of Minnesota
Role: Supervisor

Summary:

Supervised two research projects on environmental impacts of a chemical attack in metropolitan area