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Kevin A. Haas

Associate Professor

Affinity Group: Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources
Office: GT. Sav-PARB 217
Email: kevin.haas@gtsav.gatech.edu
Web: http://savannah.gatech.edu/offices-departments/people/kevin-haas-ph-d

Biography

Kevin A Haas is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Haas received his B.S. with distinction in Civil Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1994, where his honor's project involved working on a computer program for water main analysis and design. For his Master's thesis also from The Ohio State University, Dr. Haas worked on wind [Read More]

Research Interests

  • Dr. Haas' research interests include coastal engineering
  • Numerical modeling of nearshore circulation
  • Sediment transport in coastal regions
  • Hydrodynamics of rip current systems
  • Utilizing video for field and laboratory observations of waves and currents
  • Modeling and field observations of morphodynamic evolution
  • Sediment and contaminant transport in tidal marshes and extracting energy from waves and currents

Education

  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Deleware, 2001
  • M.S., Civil Engineering, Ohio State University, 1996
  • B.S. with Distinction, Civil Engineering, Ohio State University, 1994