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Dr. Arthur C. Miller, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been teaching at Penn State for more than thirty years in the water resources area. His teaching and research interests lie in the area of surface water hydrology and all aspects of open channel flow. He has been involved in Penn State's continuing and distance education program since 1973 and has also been active in teaching courses throughout the country for the National Highway Institute (NHI). Topics for these courses have varied from fundamental hydraulics to open channel flow to hydrologic processes. The course contents vary from fundamental theory to hands-on computer application. In addition, he has taught professional development workshops for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO), as well as many of the state agencies in Pennsylvania. Dr. Miller has been recognized as an outstanding teacher. He has received numerous awards for his teaching; in May 2000 he received Penn State's George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Dr. Peggy A. Johnson is a professor of civil engineering at Penn State. She conducts research in the areas of bridge scour, stream restoration, reliability analyses, and river mechanics. In 1992, Dr. Johnson won the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, and in 1995 she won the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award. She has published numerous papers on bridge scour, stream restoration, and the probability of bridge failure due to scour. She recently developed a stream stability assessment method for use at bridge-stream intersections for the Federal Highway Administration. Another recent project included the design of vanes and weirs for protecting bridge foundations for the state of Maryland. Dr. Johnson is currently in the process of testing laboratory models to assess the use of in-stream structures, such as vanes, to reduce sedimentation maintenance of bridge openings in northern Pennsylvania. She recently published journal articles on incorporating road crossings into stream restoration projects, improving the urban stream restoration effort, and the physiographic characteristics of bridge-stream intersections.
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