Professional Engineer
Department of Civil Engineering
Colorado State University
Fort Collins CO 80523-1372
Phone (970) 482-9252/ 8463
Fax (970) 491-7727
meroney@engr.colostate.edu
B.S., University of Tennessee
M.S. and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
MERONEY, Robert N., Professor, Fluid Mechanics and Wind
Engineering (FMWE) Program, Civil Engineering Department
(1965-2004); Emeritus (2004-present); Director, Fluid Dynamics and
Diffusion Laboratory (1985-2000); Division Leader Hydraulics
and Wind Engineering (1999-2000); FMWE Program Leader
(1985-1987); FMWE Coordinator (1991-2000); Director,
CSU/TTU Cooperative Wind Engineering Program (1989-2001). Adjunct
Professor at Texas Tech University, Lubbock (1989-2000).Chairman,
Engineering Science Major, (1978-1979), Colorado State
University. Dr. Meroney holds a M.S. (1963) and Ph.D. (1965)
in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Meroney has had over forty years of experience in teaching and
research on basic and applied problems of fluid mechanics. He has
conducted research in atmospheric transport, toxic and flammable gas
spills, fossil and nuclear power plant siting, wind power, urban air
pollution environments, drying in porous media, and wind engineering.
Dr. Meroney is the author of more
than 320 papers and reports and has been principal and co-principal
investigator of projects exceeding 6.0 million dollars in value in the
past twenty-five years. He also has served as consultant to
major engineering firms and government agencies on atmospheric dynamics
and simulation. He has been invited to serve on a variety of workshop
panels, chair and review professional meetings, present topical and
review papers, and co-author a text on engineering meteorology.
In the spring of 1997, Dr. Meroney was an invited lecturer at a NATO
Advanced Study Institute on Buoyant Convection in Geophysical Flows
at Pforzheim, Germany; fall 1998 he was an invited lecturer at the
International Mechanical Engineering Congress in Anaheim, CA; summer
1999 he was an invited lecturer at the International Wind Engineering
Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark; fall 2001 he was an invited lecturer
at the Inaugural Meeting of the Wind Engineering Research Center of the
Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics; fall
2002 he was an invited lecturer at the Second International
Symposium on
Wind and Structures, Busan, Korea and at the HVAC Virtual/CVEC
Virtuel
Workshop in Montreal, Canada; and fall 2003 he was the keynote
speaker for the
Int. Workshop on Physical Modeling of Flow and Dispersion Phenomena,
Prato,
Italy. During 2004 he has been invited
lecture at the inaugural meeting of the 21st
COE Program: Wind Effects on Buildings and Urban Environment, Tokyo;
the NATO
Advanced Study Institute on Penetrative Flows, Kiev, Ukraine,
and a Croucher
Advanced Study Institute on Wind Tunnel Modeling, Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology, China.
Dr. Meroney was the recipient of a Clean
Air Act Fellowship from the Environmental Protection Agency during
1972-73 at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.
During 1977 Dr. Meroney received a Fulbright Hays Grant to do
research in New Zealand, and he was appointed an Erskine Lecturer
at theUniversity of Canterbury, Christchurch. He was awarded
the Alexander von Humboldt Award from the West German government
to spend a year at the Institut fur Hydrologie und Wasserwirtschaft,
University of Karlsruhe, West Germany during 1980?1981, and this award
was extended to spend six months at the Meteorology Institute,
University of Hamburg during 1994. During this same period he was
a Guest Lecturer at the University of Hamburg.He received a
DAAD German Language Scholarship for Summer 1980.He was awarded the 1984
Abell Research Award for Excellence in Professionalism, Education,
Research, and Service to students by the Colorado State University
College of Engineering. In 1987 Dr. Meroney was awarded a Mobil
Oil Foundation Research Award to further his activities in
hazardous gas release analysis. In 1988 Dr. Meroney received the Dean's
Council Award for Engineering Science for his service to the
Engineering Science program as advisor and chairman.In 1990, Dr.
Meroney received the Dean's Council Award for Civil Engineering
for his service to the department in laboratory development, education
and research.In past years four of Dr. Meroney's students have won
regional awards in student paper contests and the student chapter
received an AIAA Bendix award in 1971. He and his wife, Joan,
were appointed Danforth Associates in 1969 for recognition of good
teaching and attempts to personalize the educational process.In
2001 his graduate student, Dr. David Banks, was awarded the Richard
Scanlan Award for best Ph.D. dissertation in Wind Engineering written
in the last 5 years.
He is a reviewer for a variety of national professional journals.
He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Colorado, an Associate
Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a
Member of the American Meteorological Society, American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, the Air Pollution and Waste Management
Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
American Association for Wind Engineering, the American Wind Energy
Association,the World Future Society, and Sigma Xi. Membership in
Honorary Societies include Tau Beta Pi, Phi Eta Sigma, Pi
TauSigma, Chi Epsilon and Phi Kappa Phi. He is past Director
of the Rocky Mountain Region for Chi Epsilon, the national civil
engineering honor society.