Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
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Howard H. Chang, Ph.D, P.E. Address: P.O. Box
9492
Rancho Santa Fe, CA
92067-4492 Phone: (858)
756-9050; (619) 594-6380 Fax: (858) 756-9460 Office: E-421B E-mail: changh@mail.sdsu.edu |
Dr. Howard Chang is on the Civil and Environmental
Engineering faculty at San Diego State University, and a registered civil
engineer in California and Arizona.
He has taught 17 different courses at San Diego State University. In recent years, the courses have
included E 120 Engineering Problem Analysis, CE 444 Applied Hydraulics, CE 495
Civil Engineering Design, CE 530 Open Channel Hydraulics, and CE 638 Sedimentation
and River Engineering.
Dr. Chang’s research is in
the area of water resources engineering pertaining to river hydraulics,
sedimentation, and erosion. He has
published over 100 refereed papers in journals and conference proceedings. He is the author of several computer
models for channel design and river hydraulics as well as the book, Fluvial
Processes in River Engineering, published in 1988 by John Wiley &
Sons. This book has been
adopted as a graduate text at other institutions.
Dr. Chang has been active in
floodplain mapping, hydrology and watershed modeling, hydrological simulation,
flood control channel design, floodwater detention basin and sediment basin
design, river channel erosion analyses, and sedimentation studies. He has developed major computer
programs. Among them, the
FLUVIAL-12 program for river sedimentation was evaluated by the National
Academy of Sciences as a national standard for river engineering. The program is now used worldwide by
professionals to simulate stream scour for the design of channels and hydraulic
structures such as bridges and levees.
Among professional activities, he has taught short courses on river and
sedimentation engineering, hydrology for flood control, and the use of the
HEC-2 and FLUVIAL-12 programs. He
has also served as a consultant for consulting firms; local, state and federal
governmental agencies; and the United Nations.
Fluvial
Processes in River Engineering Information
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