Before there was CIMM, there was NCIMM
CIMM was born from the National Center for Infrastructure Modeling and Management (NCIMM). NCIMM was established by a 5-year US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) grant (with a 2-year no-cost extension) to establish a sustainable center for the advancement and caretaking of USEPA’s Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) and EPANET models.
NCIMM Team
CIMM began as the National Center for Infrastructure Modeling and Management which was established by a 5-year grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency*
The Vision.
Bring together preeminent researchers and practitioners to provide sustainable research, development and outreach for water infrastructure modeling, initially focusing on two foremost modeling tools – known around the world by the acronyms EPA SWMM and EPANET.
Researchers.
Led by Principal Investigator, Dr. Ben Hodges at the Center for Water and Environment at the University of Texas at Austin, the research team includes researchers from Texas Tech University, Brigham Young University, and North Carolina State among others.
Practitioners.
The Urban Watersheds Research Institute (UWRI) is UT Austin’s primary partner with its mission to facilitate the Center’s interaction with urban infrastructure practitioners. Dr. Bob Brashear serves as Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Hodges.
Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)
CIMM is grateful to have the volunteer efforts of the following internationally recognized infrastructure researchers, technologists, and practitioners supporting us as our SAC.
Chair: Ted Burgess, P.E., D.WRE - Senior Vice President - CDM Smith Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio USA
Rob Traver, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE - Professor - Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania USA
Tina Petersen, Ph.D., P.E. - Executive Director, Harris County Flood Control District, Houston, Texas USA
Rob James - President and CEO - Computational Hydraulics International., Guelph, Ontario, Canada
David Fortune - University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Sally Guiterrez - Director, NRML, US Environmental Protection Agency (non-voting member), Cincinnati, Ohio
Ben Packard - Project Officer, Office of Water, US Environmental Protection Agency (non-voting member), Washington D.C.
Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
CIMM also has an incredible group of internationally recognized infrastructure technologists and practitioners who have agreed to provide detailed technical review of the new hydraulic model developed by CIMM and to report its findings to the SAC.
Chair: Robert Dickinson - Innovyze (an Autodesk Company), Tampa Bay, Florida USA
Suibing Liu - Senior Technologist, Jacobs Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio USA
Peter Klaver - Senior Project Engineer - LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
Nandana Perera - Water Resources Engineer, Computational Hydraulics International, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Mitchell Heineman - Associate, CDM Smith Inc., Boston MA, USA
Ben Packard - Project Officer, Office of Water, US Environmental Protection Agency (non-voting member)
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