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职称:Professor
所属学校:Cornell University
所属院系:College of Engineering
所属专业:Civil Engineering, General
联系方式:607 255-5140
Cowen joined the Cornell faculty in November 1997. He did his undergraduate work at Brown University and received his B.S. in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in structures in 1987. He worked for three years at a Stamford, CT based consulting firm, Redniss and Mead, that specialized in site planning/engineering. It was at Redniss and Mead that he got a taste for hydrology, hydraulics and fluid mechanics. Cowen went back to school at Stanford University in 1990 to get an M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1997). At Stanford he focused on laboratory based experimental environmental fluid mechanics. He continued on at Stanford as a Postdoctoral Scholar where he turned his attention to field based experimental environmental fluid mechanics before joining the faculty at Cornell in November of 1997. Upon arrival at Cornell Cowen was named the Director of the DeFrees Hydraulics Laboratory, a position he continues to hold. Since 2011 Cowen has become increasingly interested in the multidisciplinary aspects of energy - first motivated by hydrokinetic energy harvesting, which rapidly spread to modern smart energy systems. In July 2013 Cowen was appointed the Faculty Director for Energy at the David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell, a position he continues to hold. BS (Civil Engineering), Brown University, 1987 MS (Civil Engineering), Stanford University, 1991 Ph D (Civil Engineering), Stanford University, 1997
Cowen's overarching philosophy is to develop a curriculum that instills a fundamental foundation in the material but ultimately looks at the application of the material to real-world problems. This goal permeates his lecturers, the problem sets he assigns, and his exams. In lecture his goal is to foster an interactive learning experience that emphasizes fundamental concepts through both inductive and deductive approaches. Cowen believes strongly in challenging, open-ended problem sets that encourage students to think critically about the material. Whenever possible he bases the assigned problems on real world scenarios. Cowen prioritizes making himself available with regular office hours to discuss the problem sets as he feels that problem sets are a significant contributor to students achieving a deep comprehension of the material. In falls he generally teaches the junior year introductory fluid mechanics class CEE 3310 while in springs he alternates between his upper level undergraduate/graduate course Experimental Methods in Fluid Dynamics (CEE 6370/4370/MAE 6270) in odd years and his graduate course Environmental Fluid Mechanics (CEE 6360) in even years.