Jie Yu

Jie Yu

Assistant Professor
Water Resources/Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil, Construction,
  and Environmental Engineering
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, 27695-7908

Office: 311 Mann Hall
Telephone: 919-515-7702     Fax: 919-515-7908
e-mail: jie_yu@ncsu.edu

 Graduate Student Assistantships in Coastal Studies

Education

  • Ph.D. 2000, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • M.S. 1993, Florida State University
  • B.S. 1989, University of Science and Technology of China

Research Interests

  • Water wave mechanics
  • Surf zone alongshore and rip currents, and wave-current interaction
  • Sediment transport and coastal morphodynamics
  • Environmental fluid mechanics
  • Multi-scale/homogenization methods and data assimilations

Teaching

  • CE596B - Fluid Mechanics in Natural Environments (Spring, 2008)
  • CE596Y - Introduction to Coastal Engineering (Fall, 2007)
  • Taught Hydraulics I, II, III (UG) and Coastal Hydrodynamics (G) from 01/2004 - 01/2007 at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Appointments

  • 03/2007 - now    Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
  • 01/2004 - 02/2007    Lecturer, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
  • 01/2003 - 12/2003    Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, joint with Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute.
  • 01/2001 - 12/2002    Research Associate, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences in Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC.
  • 11/1999 - 12/2000    Assistant Scientist, Department of Ocean Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
  • 08/1989 - 05/1991    Assistant Researcher, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.