Dr. Kevin Haas is a Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Programs in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Co-Director of the Ocean Science and Engineering Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He obtained a BSCE with distinction in 1994 and a MSCE in 1996 from the Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. in Coastal Engineering from the University of Delaware in January 2001. Dr. Haas was as a Post-Doctoral Fellow from January 2001 to December 2002 at the University of Delaware. Dr. Haas started at Georgia Tech in January 2003 on the Savannah campus, earned tenure and promotion in 2009, and moved to the Atlanta campus in 2013. He has been serving as the Associate Chair of Undergraduate Programs since 2018 for CEE. Dr. Haas has served as the Co-Director of the Ocean Science and Engineering Ph.D. program since its inception in 2017, managing the academic program.
Dr. Haas has established a research program at Georgia Tech in nearshore processes (e.g. estuarine tidal flows, modeling waves and currents on the inner shelf, flow in marshes, and ship wake in confined channels) and marine hydrokinetic energy (e.g. tidal, wave, river, and ocean current energy).
1. Ph.D. University of Delaware 2001
2. MSCE The Ohio State University 1996
3. BSCE The Ohio State University 1994
Dr. Haas teaches several undergraduate and graduate level courses. He co-created and leads the first-year course Exploring Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has been a proponent of innovative pedagogies such as incorporating collaborative learning techniques into his Coastal Engineering course.
Solar and wind power have been used as renewable energy for years, but what about waves, tides, and currents? Kevin Haas, a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been on the forefront of ocean energy for over a decade.
