Jerry Lennon
Professor of Civil Engineering and
Deputy Provost for Academic Affairs
Fritz Engineering Laboratory
13 E. Packer Avenue
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 18015-4729, USA
Phone: 610-758-3558
Fax: 610-758-6405
Email: gpl0@lehigh.edu
Education
Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1980.
M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1977.
B.S. Civil Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 1975.
Service
Currently Dr. Lennon's primary effort is administrative as Deputy Provost for Academic Affairs. He is responsible for coordinating the interactions between academic affairs and student life, including the first year experience and co-curricular activities, enrollment management and accreditation. He interacts with the college deans and associate deans on raising the reputation of Lehigh’s undergraduate and graduate academic programs. He also supervises and provides leadership to other initiatives such as the Academic Outreach office.
Research and Scholarship
For over 30 years Dr. Lennon has conducted studies on groundwater hydrology and surface water hydraulics, surface water/groundwater interactions, and subsurface contaminant migration. He has published more than 70 papers in journals and conference proceedings, and he has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Mellon Foundation and other agencies. Dr. Lennon's work includes field and laboratory studies as well as modeling ground- and surface water flow, subsurface contaminant migration, effectiveness of containment and remediation alternatives including barrier walls, and estimation of fluid expulsion from geothermal vents in the Oregon Accretionary Prism in the Pacific Ocean which includes his going on two of the project's thirteen Alvin Submersible dives. He is a co-author of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' "Design Manual for Fluidization Systems." Currently Dr. Lennon has modest research activity, primarily working with Dr. Brown on groundwater contamination studies.
Teaching
Dr. Lennon's teaching experience includes sophomore-level graphics & design, fluid mechanics, environmental groundwater hydrology, and transportation engineering. He has directed or co-directed about 20 graduate students for M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. His awards include the Lehigh Class of 1961 Professorship, the Lehigh Junior Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Lindback Foundation Award for teaching excellence by a senior member of the faculty.
Selected Publications (past 3 years)
K. M. Lengieza, J. M. Caffrey, D. Norelli, G. P. Lennon, J. B. Ochs, V. Munley, J. Sterrett, "Student Design of Lehigh University Golf Facilities," American Society of Engineering Educators, 2007 Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007.
J. Ochs, G. P. Lennon, T. Watkins, and G. Mitchell, "A Comprehensive Model for Integrating Entrepreneurship Education and Capstone Projects while Exceeding ABET Requirements", American Society of Engineering Educators, 2006 Conference, Chicago, IL, 2006.
G. P. Lennon, K-A Chang, E. Cowan, and P. Lynett, eds, Proceedings of the Philip L-F Liu Symposium, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, in press, World Scientific Pub. Co., Sept. 11-12, 2006.
G.P. Lennon, B. Carson, E. Screaton, and M. Wetzel, "Subaqueous Fluid Discharge Measurements from Sediments in Shallow and Deep Water (1m to 1000 m)," Proceedings of the Philip L-F Liu Symposium, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, Sept. 11-12, 2006.
