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Name: Steven Christopher Chapra
Title: Professor and Louis Berger Chair in Computing and Engineering
Departmental Affiliation: Civil & Environmental Engineering Department
Degrees: Ph.D. University of Michigan; B.S., M.E., Manhattan College
Expertise: Water Quality Modeling, Numerical Methods, Advanced Computer Applications in Environmental Engineering
Major Awards: AEESP/Wiley Interscience Award for Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Engineering and Science Education, 2000. Rudolph Hering Medal for Best Paper in Environmental Engineering, 1993. Hutchinson Award for Excellence in Teaching of Engineering, 1992. Meriam-Wiley Distinguished Author Award for Best Textbook in Engineering, 1987. Tenneco Award for Excellence in Teaching of Engineering, 1985. Department of Commerce Special Achievement Award for Research, 1978.
E-mail: steven.chapra@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/people/chapra
Scholarship & Research: Chapra, S.C. and Reckhow, K.H., Engineering Approaches for Lake Management Vol. 2, Mechanistic Modeling, Ann Arbor Science Publications, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1983.

Chapra, S.C. and Canale, R.P, Numerical Methods for Engineers, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y., 2001. (also available in Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Indonesian and International editions).

Chapra, S.C., Surface Water-Quality Modeling, McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y., 1997 (also available in Korean and International editions)

Chapra, S.C., Total Phosphorus Model for the Great Lakes, Journal of Environ. Engin. Div., ASCE 103:147-161, 1977.

Chapra, S.C. and Di Toro, D.M., The Delta Method for Estimating Community Production, Respiration and Reaeration in Streams, Journal of Environmental Engineering 117(5):640-655, 1991.

Chapra, S.C. and Wilcock, R.J. 2000. Transient storage and gas transfer in a lowland stream . J. Environ. Engr. 126(8):708-712.

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