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Amanda L. Wood PE., Ph.D

Lecturer

Office: PMEC

Tel:  (409) 741 - 4015

Fax: (409) 741 - 7153

E-mail: wooda@tamug.edu

EDUCATION

University of Houston, Houston, Texas, May 2010

Ph. D., Civil Engineering , Area of concentration: Water Resources

Dissertation: “Modeling free-surface flows with a steep wave front by an ADI finite-difference scheme in a curvilinear coordinate system.”

University of Houston, Houston, Texas, December 2000

Master of Science, Civil Engineering

University of Houston, Houston, Texas, May 1997

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

January 2010 – Present   Lecturer, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Maritime Systems Engineering Department

May 2005 – December 2010   Research Assistant, University of Houston Main Campus, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department

January 2000 – 2004 Harris County Public Infrastructure Department Engineering Division, Design Section

FELLOWSHIPS/HONORS AND AWARDS

• Awarded the Ambrose Malloy Endowed Scholarship for the 2008-2009 Academic Year

• Recipient of the GAANN Fellowship in Infrastructure Engineering, 2005- 2010

• Recipient of the Graduate Tuition Fellowship, 2005-2010

• Recipient of the Graduate Tuition Grant-Engineering, 2005-2010

• Awarded Best of Session (Hydraulics) in the fall 2007 ASCE Texas Section Meeting in Fort Worth, TX.

• Recipient of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company Scholarship

LICENSES/CERTIFICATION

Licensed Texas Professional Engineer - since January 2003

PUBLICATIONS

• Horrillo, Juan, & Wood, Amanda. (2010). Construction of Tsunami Inundation Maps in the Gulf of Mexico.

• Wood, A. L., and Wang, K.-H. (2007). "2D Dam-Break Analysis:  MacCormack Scheme Based Curvilinear Hydrodynamic Model " Texas Section ASCE- Hydraulic Session, Fall Meeting, American Society of Civil Engineers, Fort Worth, Texas.

• Wood, A. L., and Wang, K.-H. (2008). "Simulation of Free-Surface Flows in a Curvilinear Coordinate System." Texas Section ASCE- Hydraulic Session, Spring Meeting, American Society of Civil Engineers, Corpus Cristi, Texas.

• Wood, A. L., and Wang, K.-H. (2008). "Modeling Free Surface Flows with a Steep Wave Front by an ADI Finite-Difference Scheme in a Curvilinear Coordinate System." Inaugural International Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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