Rodney Sobey Awarded the Hislop Prize

Featured Faculty: Rodney J. Sobey

CEE Emeritus Professor Rodney Sobey was awarded the 2013 David Hislop Prize by the Institution of Civil Engineers for his paper "Steep Progressive Waves in Deep and Shallow Water", which was published in Engineering and Computational Mechanics, 2012, Vol. 165(EM3), pp.181-200.

Professor Sobey taught in the CEE Environmental Engineering program from 1983-2003. His research areas include coastal hydrodynamics; hydrodynamic circulation in the surf-zone, estuaries and wetlands; wave-current interaction, wave theory, and real sea states.

The David Hislop Award is for for the best paper published in the Proceedings, or in an Institution conference volume, on heavy marine design and construction with particular reference to offshore engineering.

The Hislop Award was founded in memory of David Atholl Hislop (1928-1973).

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