DIXIE MORRIS GRIFFIN, JR., PhD, D.WRE, P.E.
Contractors Trust Fund Professor of Civil Engineering
PRESENT BUSINESS ADDRESS
Civil Engineering Program
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA 71272
318/257-2356
PRESENT HOME ADDRESS
209 North Pinecrest Drive
Ruston, LA 71273
318/251-2614
PERSONAL DATA
Married, 1 child; Height 5' 10-1/2 ", Weight 171; U. S. Citizen
EDUCATION
B.S., 1970, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University MAJOR: Civil Engineering
M.S., 1971, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University MAJOR: Environmental Engineering
Ph.D., 1979, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University MAJOR: Environmental Engineering. MINOR: Hydraulics and Hydrology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 1990 to present: Professor of Civil Engineering, Louisiana Tech University.
September 1984 to September 1990: Tenured Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Louisiana Tech University. Responsibilities include teaching of graduate and undergraduate courses, outside consulting and research.
September 1979 to September 1984: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University. Responsibilities included teaching of graduate and undergraduate courses, outside consulting and research, various student interactions.
September 1978 to September 1979: Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Responsibilities included development of courses and laboratories of new systems engineering program, outside consulting and research.
1975 to 1978: Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Involved in Occoquan Watershed Monitoring program, Manassas, Virginia duties related to graduate program and dissertation preparation.
1974 to 1975: Graduate teaching assistant, solely responsible for the preparation and instruction in graduate and undergraduate courses in Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering. Responsible for preparation and delivery of lectures to operators of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants in Virginia during "Short School" held at VPI&SU.
1971 to 1973: Assistant, then Regional Engineer for "Region 2" of the State of Virginia for the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering Department of Health. This region included most of the urban area in eastern Virginia. Responsibilities were diverse.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Registered Environmental and Civil Engineer in Louisiana, #25981
Registered Engineer in Virginia, #7406
Registered Engineer in Saskatchewan, Canada, #4456
Registered Engineer in North Dakota, #2401
American Water Resources Association
American Society of Civil Engineers
Water Environment Federation
Diplomate, American Academy of Water Resources Engineers
BACKGROUND
Born in Norfolk, Virginia Educated in Norfolk Public Schools
LAB DEVELOPMENT
As a result of research contracts obtained I was able to develop and fund an accredited (by the state of Louisiana through EPA) environmental laboratory within the civil engineering program at La Tech. I employed a lab director, an assistant lab director and an average of 5 graduate students (trained as lab technicians). The lab remained accredited from 1999 to 2004.
CONSULTING (only projects for which a fee was received are listed)
1. State Water Commission, North Dakota, design of dams and spillways, 1981-1984.
Constructed 1:25 scale model dam, analyzed head on spillway structure, study resulted in redesign of spillway
3. City of Fargo, North Dakota, solid waste disposal, 1981-1984. Analyzed leachate quality from observation wells installed in city’s landfill.
4. Chef Reddy Foods, Park Rapids, Minnesota, designed a wastewater treatment process for potato processing plant treating extremely high strength wastewater in a very cold environment, 1984.
5. Clay County, Minnesota, solid waste disposal as well as septic tank regulations, 1981-1984.
6. Louisiana Department of Health - waste treatment at Barksdale Air Force Base as well as water treatment for the Tensas Parish Water District, 1984, 1985
7. Enviro-Med Laboratories Ruston, La., chemical addition calculations to stabilize corrosive water, 1987.
8. Air Master aerator company, performed field tests to determine field oxygen transfer capacity of a 15 hp aerator. Jan - April 2000
9. Retained as a consultant regarding leachate treatment from the Union Parish Landfill, 2001
10. City of Mansfield Louisiana worked with LADOTD regarding performance of rock plant filter serving the town of Mansfield.
11. City of Delcambre, Louisiana – monitored existing rock plant filter performance
12. Greenville Springs Hospital - Baton Rouge, Louisiana
13. A.O. Milstead – Waste treatment - Milstead Trailer Park, 2005, diagnosed operation problem with package activated sludge plant.
14. Willamette Valley Paint Company, Alexandria, Louisiana, Water Treatment processes, designed reverse osmosis unit, June 2005
15. Prime Line Catfish, Scoba Ms., conducted clear water transfer test on surface aerator
16. City of Ruston – monitored waste treatment plant – advised plant personnel regarding plant operation (sludge wasting, plant flow rate), 2000 -2005
17. Water quality study of Lake Darbonne in Union Parish La. as a possible potable water source.
Selected Publications
MULTIMEDIA PUBLICATIONS
“Statistical Analysis of Water Meter Data” - Published as part of Mathcad 12 CD, 2005
Contributor to: Mathcad Data Analysis Extension Pack, reviewer, beta tester, contributed problem, “Statistical Analysis of Water Meter Data”, 2003, Mathsoft.
Civil Engineering Solved Problems, Electronic Book, Griffin, D.M. and T. Chris Evensen, available for download from Mathsoft Web Site, January 2002. A selection of advanced civil engineering problems solved using Mathcad.
Water Chemistry: Carbon Dioxide Equilibria and their Applications, Mathcad in Action, published as part of the Resource Center included in Mathcad 8.0 Professional Edition, 1998
Advanced Civil Engineering Problems, Engineering CD, Mathcad version 8, Professional, Academic Edition, 1998
Mathcad Animations Electronic Book - An electronic book, on computer disk, developed jointly with Mathsoft Inc. and presented at the 1996 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 23-26, 1996, Washington ,D.C.
28 files published on http://www.mathcad.com/resources/mathcad_files/ by Mathsoft
Google - 27 sites linked to “Dr Griffin’s Mathcad”
November 2005 - Signed contract with McGraw-Hill Publishing to provide 100 problems and solutions in Mathcad for engineering dynamics. To be used as part of an on-line repository for college faculty teaching dynamics
Griffin, D.M. and Mike Baumert, Mathcad in the Classroom – 15 Years Later, Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Southern University and A & M College, Copyright 2006, American Society for Engineering Education , March 2006
Griffin, D.M. Optimization of Subsurface Flow and Associated Treatment Processes, Final Report, published by the Louisiana Transportation Research Center, March, 2005, FHWA/LA.06/401
Griffin, D.M. and Curtis A. Fletcher, Management of Non-Point Contamination from the I-220 Bridge in Shreveport, Louisiana, Proceedings of the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 12-16, 2003, Washington, D.C.
Younge, David, Akram Hossain, Mike Barber, Shulin Chen and Dixie Griffin, Jr.
Wet Detention Pond Design for Highway Runoff Pollution Control, prepared for the
National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Oct. 2001
Griffin, Jr., D.M., Rishi Raj Bhattarai, Hongjian Xiang, Feasibility Study of a Rock-Plant Filter Wastewater System for DOTD Rest Areas, Final Report, LA99/335, December, 2000
Griffin, D.M., Rishi Raj Bhattarai, Xiang Dai, The Effect of Temperature on BOD Removals in a Subsurface Wetland, Water Environment Research Journal, Vol. 71, No.4, July/August 1999
Griffin, D.M., and Rishi Raj Bhattarai, Results of Tracer Tests in Rock Plant Filters, Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE., Vol. 125, No. 2, pg 109-117, ASCE, February 1999
Minor contributing author to the 6th Edition of Calculus by Howard Anton, 1998, problem dealing with free fall of an object encountering air resistance, pg 587, listed as “content contributor@ in acknowledgments, pg xxiii. My editor was Susan Gerstein, pg. xxii.
D. M. Griffin, Jr., Multimedia Presentations in Civil Engineering Courses Using Mathcad, Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Conference and Exposition, June 23-26, 1996, Washington, D.C.
Major contributing author, Environmental Laboratory, Waterways Experiment Station CEQUAL-RIV1: A Dynamic (Longitudinal) Water Quality Model for Streams, Users Manual,
Instruction Report E-95-July 1995, 1990 document updated and rewritten to incorporate mine and others= changes to the code, CWIS Work Unit 31595
Griffin, D.M., Mathcad for Windows as an Aid in Teaching Dynamics, Proceedings of the 1993 Annual ASEE Conference, University of Illinois, June 20-23, 1993, pg. 805-809*, also published (refereed) in Computers in Education Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan.-Mar. 1995, pgs. 1-6
Cheng, L, Bret Buras, D.M. Griffin, Jr. and James D. Nelson, Bacterial Density Changes Upstream and Downstream of a Sludge Disposal Facility, Journal of Environmental Engineering, A.S.C.E., Vol. 120, No.1, Jan/Feb. 1994, pg. 138
Bunch, B. W., D. M. Griffin, Jr., Rapid Removal of Colloidal Organics from Domestic Wastewater, Wat. Sci. Tech., Vol. 26, No. 9-11, pp. 2433-2436, 1992
Contributing Author, CE-QUAL-RIV1: A Dynamic One-Dimensional (Longitudinal) Water Quality Model for Streams, USAE Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, November 1990.
Palermo, M. R., et al., Evaluation of Dredged Material Disposal Alternatives for U.S. Navy Homeport at Everett, Washington, Technical Report EL-89-1, USAE Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1989.
Griffin, D. M., Jr., R. O. Warrington, Examination of a 2-D Groundwater Recharge Solution, Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 114, No. 4., Nov. 1988
Brannon, J. M., D. M. Griffin, Jr., Tommy E. Myers, and John G. Skogerboe, "Part III,
Application of Research Technology," in Disposal Alternatives for PCB- Contaminated Sediments from Indiana Harbor, Indiana, Volume I, January, 1987, Environmental Laboratory, Waterways Experiment Station, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Brannon J. M., D. M. Griffin, Jr., and Tommy E. Myers, "Appendix G, Leachate Testing Results," in Disposal Alternatives for PCB-Contaminated Sediments from Indiana Harbor, Indiana, Volume II, January, 1987, Environmental Laboratory, Waterways Experiment Station, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Bunch, B. and D. M. Griffin, Jr., "Rapid Removal of Colloidal Substrate from Domestic Wastewater", Journal of the Water Pollution Control Federation, Vol. 59, No. 11, November 1987
Griffin, D. M., Jr., R. L. Skarie, A.,Maianu, and J. L. Richardson, Effects of Prolonged Lagoon Leakage on Agricultural Land, Journal of Civil Engineering for Practicing and Design Engineers, Pergamon Press, Vol. 4, No. 10, 1985
Principal Contributing Author: Clarifier Design - A Manual of Practice FD-8, Water Pollution Control Federation, Oct., l985
Griffin, D. M., Jr., O. D. Richard, and R. Swanson, Increased Spillway Capacity Using
Physical Models, Civil Engineering for Practicing and Design Engineers, Vol. 3, No. 7, July, 1984
Wagner, R., and D. M. Griffin, Jr., The Importance of Operating Characteristics in Determining Unit Disposal Cost of Solid Waste, Journal of Civil Engineering for Practicing and Design Engineers, Pergamon Press, Vol. 3, No. 12. Dec., 1984
Griffin, D. M., Jr., T. J. Grizzard, C. W. Randall, D. R. Helsel, and J. P. Hartigan, "Analysis of Non-point Pollution Export from Small Catchments," Journal of Water Pollution Control Federation, Vol. 52, No. 4, p. 780, 1980.*
Griffin, D. M., Jr., C. W. Randall, and T. J. Grizzard, "Efficient Design of Stormwater Holding Basins Used for Water Quality Control," Water Research, Vol. 14, pp. 1549-1554,
1980
Griffin, D. M., Jr., "Reservoir Trap Efficiency: The State of the Art," Journal of Civil Engineering Design, Marcel Dekker, Vol. 1, No. 4, p. 355-377, (1979)
Research Proposals
Obtained $25,000 grant from National Research Council of Canada for the Study of Low Temperature Lagoon Kinetics, 1978
$4,000 Equipment Grant from National Research Council of Canada, 1979
$5,000 grant from Bureau of Indian Affairs, to collect water quality data, White Bear Lake, Canada, 1979
Obtained $10,000 grant from State Water Commission, Model Studies, North Dakota, 1980
Obtained $12,500 from City of Fargo, Landfill Research, 1982
Obtained $10,000 grant from Corps of Engineers, Landfill Research, Fargo, N.D., 1982
Obtained $1,300 Faculty Improvement Grant, Bush Foundation, through North Dakota State University, 1983
$4,500 grant from City of Fargo, landfill research, 1983
National Science Foundation Grant CEE-840756-1 for $11,500 (Equipment), 1984
Halliburton Grant, Louisiana Tech College of Engineering, for preparation of lab manual for the Folk Memorial Lab, $2,000, funded, 1984
Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, Mississippi, from 5-1-85 to 12- 31-86, employed full time during the summers of 1985 and 1986. Research involved developing mathematical models to describe the migration of hydrophobic contaminants (PCBs) in contaminated dredge material, contract value approximately $64,000
Waterways Experiment Station, COE, from 10-1-87 to 9-1-88 to apply hydrodynamic and water quality models. Contract value approximately $36,000
Waterways Experiment Station from 9-1-88 to 9-1-89. Improvement of hydrodynamic and water quality computer models, contract value $39,615
Minimizing Numerical Instabilities in "Parameter Sensitive" Unsteady Flow Systems, Pre-proposal submitted to the Water Quality Modeling Group, Environmental Lab, W.E.S., Vicksburg, Ms., Feb. 1, 1989, $25,000
Enhancements to the RIV1Q Water Quality Model, Proposal submitted to the Water Quality Modeling Group, Environmental Lab, W.E.S., Vicksburg, Mississippi, May 15, 1989, $23,988, funded DACW 3990M0569
A Joint Proposal by the Departments of Civil and Mechanical Engineering to Incorporate Mathematics into Engineering Instruction, June 1990 D. M. Griffin, Jr., P.I., $10,000.00
Lease/Purchase of a Comprehensive, Interactive Plotting Package (TECPLOT), January 1991, $4,815.00, Faculty Development Grant, Louisiana Tech University
Assessing the Validity of an Operation Definition of Chemical Equilibrium and Current Adsorption Theories, April 1991, $1,000.00, Summer Research Grant, Louisiana Tech University
Enhancements to the RIV1Q Water Quality Model II, Water Quality Modeling Group, W.E.S., Vicksburg, Ms $24,980.00, DACW3991M2256
Partial support for graduate students, Water Quality Modeling Group, W.E.S., Vicksburg, MS $1,000.00
Development of an Inorganic Carbon Tracking Model, Water Quality Modeling Group, WES, $60,716.00
Partial Support for Supplies, City of Ruston, $400.00
A Sampling study to assess the Environmental Impact of cleaning the aeration basin at the Ruston S.T.P. on Colvin Creek, $9000
Summer Faculty Research and Engineering Program - BATTELLE, COLUMBUS DIVISION -$8,380.00 - 1993. Developing user's manual for HELP model, working with Dr. Paul Schroeder at WES.
Partial support for graduate student, Water Quality Modeling Group, W.E.S., Vicksburg, MS., $2500.00
Groundwater contamination study, AT&T Shreveport Works, $19,985
A Study of the Effectiveness of Iron Sequestration in the Potable Water Supply of the City of Ruston, $11,324
Carried out Feasibility Study of a Wastewater Treatment System for the Louisiana Transportation Research Council, 3/1/96, $410,000. Reengineered, built, and operated a fixed film biological process treating high strength wastewater from an interstate rest area. System has no moving parts, still operates (as of 2009), meeting permit limits.
Determination and Treatment of Toxic Substances in Runoff to Cross Lake, 6/13/96, Louisiana Transportation Research Council, $340,000
Water Quality Monitoring in Black Bayou, West Monroe, written by a team of folks, funded for $1.65 million, my part is around $200,000, 9/1/2000. Whether an “urban wetland” functions as a contaminant source or sink depends on the size of the wetland as well as the return period of the hydrologic event being studied.