University of South Carolina
Associate Dean
About
Dr. Hanif Chaudhry has received his BSc. with Honors in Civil Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan in 1965 and his MASc. and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 1968 and 1970. Since 2007 he has been serving at the University of South Carolina as Associate Dean (International Programs – College of Engineering and Computing) and Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering (since 2019). Dr. Chaudhry was awarded many important prizes and awards, including a Doctor Honoris Causa title by the Universidad Polytecnica de Valencia (1999), ASCE Distinguished member (2016), and the Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award (2008). His research grants and contract include NSF, FHWA, USAID, EPA, Corps of Engineers. Dr. Chaudhry has acted as a consultant in all six continents to organizations such as the United Nations, UNDP, US AID, US Army Corps of Engineers, California Department of Water Resources, NASA Langley, Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Bank. He is the author of books such as Applied Hydraulic Transients and Open-Channel Flow.
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