Civil Engineering Professor Robert Meroney Retires After 39 Years
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Dr. Robert Meroney
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After 39 years of teaching and research in the Department of Civil Engineering at Colorado State University, Dr. Robert Meroney is retiring in May 2004. During his academic career, Dr. Meroney has published more than 320 articles and reports and has been principal and co-principal investigator on research projects in the areas of fluid dynamics and wind engineering with a total value of six million dollars. He has graduated 16 Ph.D. and 19 M.S. students.
On June 2-5, 2003, he presented a paper titled "Fire Whirls, Fire Tornadoes, Fires Storms and Building Aerodynamics" at the 11th International Wind Engineering Conference held at Lubbock, TX. He gave the invited keynote lecture for the International Workshop on Physical Modeling of Flow and Dispersion Phenomena (PHYSMOD'03) held in Prato, Italy, on September 3-5, 2003, at the University of Firenze. His presentation was titled "Fire Whirls, Fire Tornadoes and Fire Storms: Physical and Numerical Modeling."
Dr. Meroney will serve as an invited lecturer at the March 8-9, 2004, inauguration of the new Center of Excellence on Wind Effects on Buildings and Urban Areas at the Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan, speaking on the topic of Smoke Management in Building Atria.
As an invited lecturer and member of the organizing committee for the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Dr. Meroney will present a paper entitled "Flow and Transport Processes in Complex Obstructed Geometries: From Cities and Vegetative Canopies to Industrial Problems." This workshop will be held at the Institute of Hydromechanics of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in Kiev, Ukraine, on May 4-15, 2004. The NATO ASI is a high-level teaching activity where a carefully defined subject, systematically presented, is treated in depth by lecturers of international standing and new advances in a subject, not taught elsewhere, are reported in tutorial form. Typically up to 100 participants attend and also give short presentations or posters. Dr. Meroney will coordinate student presentations and activities as well as speak on the effects of arrays of bluff bodies on transport and dispersion.
Dr. Meroney is currently a member of the CSU Faculty Council. He is also an active member in the CSU 1870 Club and Rotary International of Fort Collins. His memberships in professional societies are: ASME, AMS, AAAS, AAWE, AWES, American Future Society, Society of Senior Scholars (CSU) and Chi Epsilon Supreme Council.