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Annette HernandezAnnette Hernandez - Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Annette Hernandez, Ph.D.
Department of Civil Engineering
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-1022

Tel:(806) 742-3523 x251
Fax: (806) 742-3449
Email:
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Education

  • Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University – Kingsville, 2007
  • M.S., Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University – Kingsville, 2003
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University – Kingsville, 1997

Academic Experience

  • 08/08 – Present: Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas Tech University
  • 08/03 – 08/07: Graduate Research Assistant, Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University - Kingsville
  • 01/02 – 08/03: Research Scientist, South Texas Environmental Institute, Texas A&M University - Kingsville
  • 01/98 – 05/00: Graduate Research Assistant, Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University - Kingsville
  • 08/97 – 12/97: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University - Kingsville

Professional Affiliations

  • American Society of Civil Engineers
  • American Water Resources Association
  • American Water Works Association

Honors and Awards

  • ASCE ExCEEd 2009 Fellow
  • Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society

Service Activities

  • Reviewer, Water Air and Soil Pollution
  • Reviewer, Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • Member, Graduate Faculty
  • Advisor, Emerging Green Builders Association
  • Advisor, Engineers Without Borders
  • Member, Civil Engineering Curriculum committee
  • Panelist, “Getting your First Job and Surviving your First Year” part of the “So You Want to be a Professor?” series sponsored by the TLTC.
  • Invited Speaker, 2010 Girls in Engineering, Manufacturing and Science (GEMS) Summer Camp, Texas A&M University – Kingsville
  • Invited Speaker, 2009 Math and Science classes career day, Region 1 Service Center, Sharyland, TX

Recent Publications

  1. Uddameri, V. and E. A. Hernandez “Assessing Optimal Waste Load Allocations in the Arroyo Colorado River Watershed, TX along the US-Mexico Border,” Clean Technologies and Environmental Policies; Submitted December 2010
  2. Hernandez, E.A., and V. Uddameri,  “Using Bi-variate Copulas to Manage Resources in a Semi-Arid Region,” Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, in review.
  3. Hernandez, E., and Uddameri, V. (2010) "Selecting Agricultural Best Management Practices for Water Conservation and Quality Improvements Using Atanassov’s Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets." Water Resources Management, 24(15), 4589-4612.
  4. Chang, N.-B., and Hernandez, E. (2008). "Optimal Expansion Strategy for a Sewer System under Uncertainty." Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 13(1), 93-113.
  5. Hernandez, E. A., and V. Uddameri, (2008) “Hazardous Waste Assessment, Management, and Minimization,” Water Environment Research, 80 (10), p. 1648-53.

Oral Presentations

  1. Hernandez, E. A., and V. Uddameri, (2009) “Management of Water Resources under Uncertainty in a Changing Climate,” AWRA 2009 Spring Specialty Conference:  Managing Water Resources and Development in a Changing Climate.  Anchorage, Ak, May 4 – 6, 2009.
  2. Uddameri, V., and E.A. Hernandez, (2009) “Management of Agricultural Water Resources under Uncertainty for the Dual Purposes of Conservation and Enhancement,” AWRA 2009 Spring Specialty Conference:  Managing Water Resources and Development in a Changing Climate.  Anchorage, Ak, May 4 – 6, 2009.
  3. Hernandez, E. A. (2007) “Water Resource Management:  The Simulation-Optimization Approach,” Invited Speaker, Graduate Seminar, Texas A&M University – Kingsville, Kingsville Texas.

Poster Presentations

  1. Gonzalez, Victoria H. and Hernandez, E. A. “Watershed Management of Canadian River using Soft Computing Methods,” Undergraduate Research Conference, Texas Tech University, March 29 – April 1, 2010.
  2. Hernandez, E. A., and V. Uddameri. “Soft Computing Methods for Agricultural Best Management Practice Selection” CREST Open House, November 30, 2006
  3. Hernandez, E. A., and V. Uddameri. “Wastewater Resources Management within a Small Semi-Arid Watershed,” Poster Presentation at the Texas Rivers Institute – Flows for the Future” conference October 30 – November 1, 2005.

 Mentoring and Professional Development Activities

  • ASCE ExCEED 2009
  • TLTC Tenure Academy
  • TLTC TIPS