Alumni Spotlight
Melissa Smith Gentry
 Melissa (Missy) Gentry, PE, is the Public Works Director for the
City of Columbia. In that capacity, she provides leadership and oversight to multiple
divisions responsible for the delivery of basic services, including Animal Services,
Forestry and Beautification, Solid Waste, Street Division and Traffic Engineering.
The Public Works Department is comprised of approximately 300 employees and has
an overall budget in excess of $25,000,000.
Missy began her career with the City of Columbia as an intern during her last year
of college. Following graduation, she was hired as an entry level engineer. Missy
also served as the City Engineer for five years before she was promoted to Public
Works Director. She has enjoyed her career at the City to date and is pleased to
make a difference in the lives of the citizens, residents, visitors and employees
of Columbia on a daily basis....
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Welcome Dr. Enrica Viparelli
Dr. Enrica Viparelli obtained all her degrees from the Department of Hydraulic and
Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Italy. During her doctoral
studies, she spent one year and a half to work on her dissertation thesis at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she continued her studies and
research supervised by professor Gary Parker as post-doctoral research associate,
since January 2008.
In these four years she has been involved in experimental and numerical projects
to study sediment transport and deposition in fluvial, deltaic and submarine environment.
Most of her numerical work has been focused in the development of river/delta restoration
tools in the context of the NCED (National Centre for Earth Surface Dynamics, an
NSF Science and Technology Centre) multidisciplinary effort to develop detailed
long-term sediment budgets in the Minnesota River basin, Minnesota, and to restore
the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana.
In the very near future she will continue her collaboration on the restoration of
the Mississippi Delta, and her studies on transport and deposition of sediment with
uniform grain size and different densities. In a relatively near future she hopes
to start working, among other things, on a probabilistic framework to model transport
of non-uniform sediment, on how the interaction between a river and its floodplain
changes for increasing concentrations of very fine sediment in suspension, and on
new projects in collaboration with other faculty members of the department.
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of South Carolina, e-mail Karen
Ammarell.
For more information on the graduate programs, e-mail the graduate director.
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