Rate My Professor Subhashini Wella Hewage

Dr Subhashini Wella Hewage is a Lecturer in Water Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering and Construction within the College of Engineering and Information Technology at Adelaide University. She earned her PhD in Hydrology and Master’s in Water Resources Management from the University of South Australia, along with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. Her research specializations encompass stormwater management, Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) and green infrastructure, land-use and land-cover change, hydrologic modelling, flood and low-flow hydrology, climate change impacts on water systems, engineering education, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), project-based learning, authentic assessment, culturally informed and inclusive engineering education, and industry-engaged curriculum design to enhance student employability and professional identity.

Dr Wella Hewage has extensive experience coordinating and teaching courses such as Project Management for Engineers and Introduction to Water Engineering. At Adelaide University, she teaches CIVE 2010 Introduction to Water Engineering, ENGG 1003 Sustainable Engineering Practice, ENGG 2004 Project Management for Engineers, ENGG 3006 Design Management for Engineers, and CIVE 3009 Hydraulics and Hydrology. Eligible to co-supervise Masters and PhD students, she currently co-supervises Mr Obaid Alharbi's Doctorate on developing a flash flooding adaptation strategy under climate change for Jeddah City. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), her notable publications include 'A comparison of continuous and event-based rainfall-runoff (RR) modelling using EPA-SWMM' (Water, 2019, with S. Hossain and G.A. Hewa), 'Can water sensitive urban design systems help to preserve natural channel-forming flow regimes in an urbanised catchment?' (Water Science and Technology, 2016, with G.A. Hewa and D. Pezzaniti), and 'Modeling 100 year ARI floods in South Australian Catchments' (Journal of Hydrologic Environment, 2010, with S.H.P. Walpita Gamage et al.). She has contributed to conference proceedings on WSUD, hydrologic modelling, and regional flood studies.