Aaron A. Jennings, PhD. P.E. (Main Page)

Aaron A. Jennings Ph.D., P.E.
Professor of Civil Engineering, CWRU
Phone: (216) 368-4998
FAX: (216) 368-5229
Email: aaj2@po.cwru.edu

Research Accomplishments

Dr. Jennings has been the Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on 30 research projects supported by NSF, EPA, DOE, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Maryland, NEORSD and the Lindbergh Fund. Most of this work has focused on groundwater flow and contamination, hazardous waste management, GeoEnvironmental engineering, environmental decision-making, remediation or urban hydraulics. In addition to theoretical and laboratory analysis, projects have led to the development of user-oriented software to help transfer new theory into engineering practice.
Dr. Jennings was one of the original developers of multicomponent mass transport modeling of groundwater contamination. He has also developed experimental procedures for measuring the physical impacts of chemical reactions with soils. This work will allow engineers to improve the long-term performance of hazardous waste disposal containment systems. In addition Dr. Jennings has designed expert systems to help EPA review hazardous waste facilities, devised tools to automate risk analysis, and developed decision-support software to help engineers make better environmental decisions. Most recently he headed a NSF-Gateway consortium of professors experimenting with techniques to increase the use of computer modeling in Environmental Engineering education.

Current Research Projects

Graduate, Naval Communications Training Center
- "Prescribed Course of StudyÓ in electronic warfare
- granted top secret security clearance
- 1968
A.A.S., Adirondack Community College
- with High Honors
- 1972
BET in Civil Engineering with Highest Honors, Rochester Institute of Technology
- 1975
M.S.C.E., University of Massachusetts
- Thesis: "Leachate Attenuation Properties of Soils Under Anaerobic Conditions"
- 1977
Ph.D. (Environmental Engineering), University of Massachusetts
- Dissertation: "Improved Pathway Descriptions for Finite Element Models of Subsurface Solute Transport"
- 1980

Major Teaching Interests:

Dr. Jennings' undergraduate teaching responsibilities have included Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulic Engineering and Hydrology, Water Supply, Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Solid and Hazardous Waste and Water Resources Engineering. He has developed and equipped laboratories for several of these courses, and has developed an electronic classroom to support environmental engineering programs at CWRU.
Dr. Jennings has taught graduate courses in Subsurface Hydrology, Environmental Engineering Principles, Hazardous Waste Management, Advanced Groundwater Analysis, and Environmental Engineering Modeling. Recent course developments include Applied Groundwater Modeling focusing on the creative use of existing groundwater analysis software and Environmental Remediation concentrating on engineered solutions for contaminated environments.

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 1993-present.
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Toledo, 1991-1993.
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Toledo, 1986-1991.
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1980-1985.

Book, Edited Proceedings, Manuals

Jennings, A.A., Chapter 21, "Hazardous Waste" in, Civil Engineering Practice, Volume 5 - Water Resources /Environmental, ed. P.N. Cheremisinoff, N.P Cheremisinoff, and S. L. Cheng, Technomic Publishing Co., Inc., Lancaster , PA, 1988, (589-618).
Jennings, A.A., and Spangenberg, N.E., (ed) Surface and Groundwater Quality - Pollution Prevention, Remediation and the Great Lakes, Proceedings of the AWRA 1991 Spring Symposium, Cleveland , OH, Feb. 24-28, 1991.
Jennings, A.A. and Manocha, A., "Modeling Soil Bioremediation", Ch. 27, in Remediation of Hazardous Waste Contaminated Soils D.L.Wise et al. (ed.), Marcel Dekker, Inc. N.Y., 1994.
Jennings, A.A. (ed), Engineering of Landfills in Glacial Soils, Proceedings of the 1st Annual Great Lakes Geotechnical/Geoenvironmental Conference, Toledo Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Toledo, OH, May 14, 1993.
Jennings, A.A. and Ravi, Varadhan, "Mechanisms and Models for Aggressive Permeant Interactions with Soils", Chapter 8, Environmental Modeling Vol. II - Computer Methods and Software for Simulating Environmental Pollution and its Adverse Effects, P. Zannetti (ed.), Computational Mechanics Publications, 1994, (213-275).

Recent Technical Journal Publications

Jennings, A.A. and Nagarkar, P.,"Automating Probabilistic Environmental Decision Analysis", Environmental Software, 10(4), 251-262, 1995.
Jennings, A.A., "A Bioremediation Teaching Module Based on BIO1D", Environmental Modelling and Software, 12(1), 1-18, 1997
Jennings, A.A. and Kuhlman, S.J.,"An Air Pollution Transport Teaching Module Based on GAUSSIAN MODELS 1.1" ,Environmental Modelling and Software, 12(2-4), 151-160, 1997
Mesania, F. and Jennings, A.A., "A Hydraulic Barrier Design Teaching Module Based on HELP 3.04 and HELP Model for Windows V2.05", Environmental Modelling and Software, (in press), 1998.
Jennings, A.A., "A Vapor Extraction Teaching Module Based On AIRFLOW/SVE", Environmental Modelling and Software, (in press), 1998.

Fentiman, A.W. and Jennings, A.A., "Software Applications in Solid and Hazardous Waste", Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, WA., June 28- July 1 (in press).
Roy, D., Jennings, A.A. and Maillacheruvu, K., "Air Pollution Transport Teaching Modules", Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, WA., June 28- July 1 (in press).
Jennings, A.A., Gardner, K.H., Dietrich, J. Maehr, J. and Zielinski, J., "The Evolution of Flood Risk and Erosion Damage in the Shaker Lakes/Doan Brook Urban Watershed", Proceedings of the 1998 National Environmental Engineering Conference: Water Resources in the Urban Environment, Chicago, Il, June 6-10, 1998, (in press).
Castelli, S.E., Gardner, K.H. and Jennings, A.A.,"An Urban lake Remediation Experiment", Proceedings of the 1998 National Environmental Engineering Conference: Water Resources in the Urban Environment, Chicago, Il, June 6-10, 1998, (in press).
Zielinski J.A., Jennings, A.A. and Gardner, K.G. "Evaluation of Management Strategies for the Doan Brook Urban Watershed", Proceedings of the 1998 National Environmental Engineering Conference: Water Resources in the Urban Environment, Chicago, Il, June 6-10, 1998, (in press).

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