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Ole S. Madsen

Donald & Martha Harleman Professor and Associate Department Head for Education
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Room 48-216C, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139
Tel: (617) 253-2721, Fax: (617) 253-6044, E-mail: osm@mit.edu

Academic Preparation:

• Technical University of Denmark (Civil Eng.), MSc, 1964
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ScD, 1970

Appointments:

• Professor, Dept. of CEE (MIT), 1984-present
• Assoc. Professor, Dept. of CEE (MIT), 1975-1984
• Asst. Professor, Dept. of CE (MIT), 1972-1975
• Adj. Professor, Dept. of CE (NUS), 1998-2001
• Adj. Professor, TMSI (NUS), 2003-2006

Honors:

• MIT Dept. of CEE Teaching Award, '74, '76. '83, '90, '98, '02
• MIT School of Eng. Bose Teaching Award, 1993
• MIT Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, 1994
• ASCE, 2001 International Coastal Eng. Award, 2001

Four Recent Publications:

• Herrmann, M., O.S. Madsen (2007) Effect of stratification due to suspended sand on velocity and concentration distribution in unidirectional flows, J. Geophysical Research (Oceans), In Press.
• Tajima, Y., O.S. Madsen (2006) Modeling near-shore waves, surface rollers and undertow velocity profiles. J. Waterways, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, ASCE, 132(6): 429-438.
• Zhang, H,. O.S. Madsen, S.A. Sannasiraj, E.S. Chan (2004) Hydrodynamic model with wave-current interaction in coastal regions. Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science, 26:317-324.
• Jimenez, J.A., O.S. Madsen (2003) A simple formula to estimate the settling velocity of natural sediments. J. Waterways, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, ASCE, 129(2): 70-78.

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