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Randel L. Dymond
Title : Associate Professor
Program Area : Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Address : 220-C Patton Hall
E-mail : dymond(at)vt.edu
Telephone : (540) 231-9023
Professional Registration : Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin (PE), Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM)

Alternate URL for this homepage : http://www.cee.vt.edu/people/dymond.html
 
Areas of Interest :
 
  • Sustainable Land Development, Urban Stormwater Quality & Quantity, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Spatial Decision Support Systems, Watershed Management, Civil Infrastructure Systems, Land Use Change Impacts, Visualization of Geospatial data, Center for Geospatial Information Technology
 
Education :
 
  • B.S. in Chemistry: Bucknell University, 1978
  • B.S. Civil Engineering, Penn State University, 1979
  • M.E. Civil Engineering: Penn State University, 1980
  • Ph.D.Civil Engineering: Penn State University, 1987
 
Work Experience :
 
  • Virginia Tech - Assoc. Prof., 1998-present
    Director, Center for Geospatial Information Technology, 2002-2009
  • Univ. of Wisconsin Platteville (UWP) Prof/Assoc/Asst Professor, 1988-98
  • UWP Interim Asst. Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, Oct. '96-Sept. '97
  • Several summers working for Strand Associates (Madison, WI) as a consultant.
  • Dir. of R&D for Eagle Point Software, Dubuque, IA, 1992-1993
  • Instructor, Fairmont State College, Fairmont, WV, 1982-84
  • Full time environmental engineering consultant, Huth Engineers, Lancaster, PA, 1980-82
 
Professional Honors, Awards, and Recognitions :
 
  • GV Loganathan Teaching Award, 2009
  • VT College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, 2008, 2009
  • VT CEE Alumni Board - Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, 2008
  • 1995-96 UW-Platteville College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science Exemplary Teaching Award
  • Who's Who Among America's Teachers - 1996 (student nominated)
  • ASEE North Midwest Section DOW Outstanding Young Faculty Award, 1991
 
Courses Taught :
 
  • Water Resources Engineering
  • Hydrology
  • GIS Applications in CEE
  • Advanced GIS Applications in CEE
  • Computer Applications in CEE
  • Land Development Design
 
Selected Research Projects :
  • Commonwealth of Virginia 2010 Hazard Mitigation Plan
  • Town of Blacksburg Urban Stormwater Study
  • Virginia’s Stormwater Impact Evaluation Project: Developing an Optimization Tool for Improved Site Development, Selection and Placement of Stormwater Runoff BMPs
  • Developing a New National GeoDatabase Model for Buried Infrastructure - BAMI/EPA
  • FEMA Floodplain Delineation Studies for Virginia
 
Selected Publications :
  • "Quantifying Long Term NPS Pollutant Flux in an Urbanizing Watershed", M. Dougherty, R. Dymond, T. Grizzard, A. Godrej, C. Zipper, J. Randolph, ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering, April 2006, Volume 132, Issue 4, pp. 547-554
  • "Evaluation of Impervious Surface Estimates in a Rapidly Urbanizing Watershed", M. Dougherty, R. Dymond, S. Goetz, C. Jantz, N. Goulet, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, (70)11:1275-1284, Nov. 2004.
  • "An Interdisciplinary Web-Enabled SDSS for Watershed Management", R. Dymond, B. Regmi, V. Lohani, and R. Dietz, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management--July/August 2004, Volume 130, Issue 4, pp. 290-300.
  • "GIS Techniques for Flood Map Modernization and Hazard Mitigation Plans", Shane Parson, Randy Dymond, Rachael Heltz Herman, Proceedings of the 2004 ESRI Annual User Conference, San Diego, CA, August 2004.
  • "Integrated Computing Environments for Watershed Management", Layne T. Watson, Vinod K. Lohani, David F. Kibler, Randel L. Dymond, Naren Ramakrishnan, Clifford A. Shaffer, ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol 16:4, pp. 259-268, Oct. 2002.
  • "Hydrological and Fiscal Impacts of Residential Development: A Virginia Case Study", Darrell Bosch,Vinod Lohani, Randy Dymond, David Kibler, Kurt Stephenson, ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Vol 129:2, pp. 107-114, (March/April 2003)
 
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