Rate My Professor Serter Atabay

Serter Atabay is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the American University of Sharjah. He earned his PhD in Open Channel Hydraulics and Water Resources from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom in 2001. Before joining AUS in 2008, he accumulated more than seven years of professional experience with leading UK specialists in flood risk and environmental management, including roles as Senior Engineer and Project Manager from 2002 to 2008, as well as Research Assistant positions from 2001 to 2002.

His research focuses on river engineering, catchment flood management plans, strategic flood risk management, channel resistance, boundary shear stress distributions, overbank flow, flood hydraulics, sediment mechanics, hydraulic structures at high flow such as bridges, and environmental hydrology and modelling. He teaches undergraduate courses including fluid mechanics, water resources engineering, coastal engineering, advanced water resources engineering, and statics. Atabay is a member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research.