November  2000

RESUME

                                                                

                                                                Avi Ostfeld

Identification No.:                          068253541

Date and Place of Birth:                July 4, 1960, Kimpolung, Romania.

Immigration to Israel:                     April 4, 1964.

Address:                                          38 Yigal Allon St., Haifa 32983, Israel.

Marital Status:                                Married, Three children.

Phone:                                              972 - 4 - 82927872 (W), 972 - 4 - 8327242 (H), 051 - 726139

Fax:                                                   972 - 4 - 8228898

E-mail:                                              ostfeld@tx.technion.ac.il ; ostfeld@hotmail.com

Faculty Home Page:                       http://www.technion.ac.il/shell/Academic/Civil-Eng.html

 

Academic Degrees:

D.Sc.                                   1994, Civil Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

M.Sc.                                  1990, Civil Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

B.Sc.                                   1987, Agricultural Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

 

Academic Appointments:

Oct. 00 - to date :              Lecturer, Civil Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

Sep. 96 - Sep. 97:              Research Associate, Civil Engineering, The University of Arizona,

                                            Tucson, AZ, USA.

Apr. 94 - Jul. 96:                Research Associate, Civil Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

 

Professional Experience:

Nov. 97 - Jul. 00: Project Manager/Senior Engineer on water resources development

and water supply projects in Israel for the Water Commission, Mekorot Ltd., and private

agencies in Israel and abroad. Examples include:

- Reliability of Municipal Water Distribution Systems. Project Manager, responsible for

      development of methodology and conceptual approach, and analysis of the trade-off between costs and reliability.

- Master Plan for Israel's Coastal Aquifer. Engaged in running of computer models and

    analysis of results.

- Master Plan for Effluent Reuse North of the Yarkon River. Project Manager/GIS Analyst.

- Water hammer modeling and analysis of the pipelines: Ashkelon-Yarkon, Hebron, Caesaria,

         and others including the allocation of surge control devices.

- Inclusion of Surface Water Detention Reservoirs in Water Distribution Networks in the

         Arava Region. Project Manager, responsible for application of dynamic programming for

         incorporation of surface water resources in a regional water distribution system, and simulation of multiquality networks.

- Analysis of the Expansion Needs for Year 2020 of the Dan Region Sewage Reclamation

    Project. Project Manager, responsible for simulation/optimization of regional water distribution systems.

 

Oct. 85 - Aug. 87:             Trainee, Kapam Ltd.,Haifa, Israel. Participation in Irrigation and Agricultural Engineering projects in Israel and abroad.

 

Jul. 85 - Oct. 85:                Research Assistant, Agricultural Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

                         Participation in Drainage and Soil Conservation Engineering projects.

 

Research Interests:

1. Reliability of water distribution systems. Development and application of reliability models for water distribution systems reliability simulation and management.

 

2. Management of multiquality water supply systems. Multiquality water supply systems are

      distribution systems in which waters of different qualities are taken from sources, possibly

      treated, conveyed and supplied to the consumers. Such systems are especially important in arid regions (e.g. the Arava district in southern Israel), in which good water quality is limited, and thus alternate water sources, such as saline groundwater, need to be used.

 

3.   Integration of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with water resources models.

 

4. Water Hammer analysis.

 

Teaching Experience:

Mar. 00 - Jun. 00:              Chargeable of teaching the course Hydrology, at the Academic College of

                                      Judea and Samaria, Ariel, Israel.

                                     

Nov. 97 - Nov. 98, Feb. 94 - Jun. 96: 

In charge of teaching the undergraduate course Introduction to Hydrology, at the Technion, Haifa, Israel.

 

Oct. 87- Feb. 94:                Teaching assistant in graduate and undergraduate courses at the Technion, Haifa, Israel, including: hydraulics, introduction to hydrology, hydraulic engineering, fluid mechanics, and water resources systems engineering.

 

Academic Activities:

Apr. 94 - Jul. 96:                Coordinator, Water Research Institute, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

 

Nov. 91 - Feb. 92:             Coordinator, Task Committee for "Creation of a Water Research Institute at the Technion", Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

 

Public Professional Activities:

May 94 to date:                Member of the Task Committee on Integration of Reliability, Uncertainty, and Optimization in Hydraulics, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

                                           

                                            Member of the Water Resources Systems Committee, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

1990 - 1994:                        Member of the Joint Staff - Student Committee in Civil Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel, representing its graduate students.

 

Membership in Professional Societies:

1. Member (#320370), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

2. Israeli Association for Water Resources (EYAL).

3. Agricultural Engineering Division, the register of Engineers and Architects in Israel.

 

Honors:

Jun. 92:         The Simha Blas Scholarship Award.

                      The Ziva and Albert Ben David Prize for Outstanding Assistant in teaching in the

                      Fall Semester, 1992.

 

Jan. 92:         The Wolf Foundation Scholarship Award for Research Students.

Jun. 91:         The Gruenspan Prize for Research.

Mar. 90:        The Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Scholarship for Excellence Award.

 

Graduate Students:

Completed Theses

1998:             Mataeb G. Stanislav, M.Sc., Thesis: "Inclusion of Demand - Pressure Head

                      Relationships in Simulation and Management of Water Distribution Systems", joint

                      supervision with Professor Mordechai H. Diskin - principal supervisor.

 

Significant Professional Projects:

1996-99, "Decision Support System for Arid Land Wetland and Riparian Zones", a three year

project conducted at the University of Arizona, funded by the International Arid Lands

Consortium (IALC).

 

The project dealt with developing Decision Support Systems (DSS) for two sites: the

Bingham Cienega in Southern Arizona, and the Lake Hula in northern Israel. Kevin E. Lansey

and Thomas Maddock III, professors at the University of Arizona were responsible for the

Bingham Cienega site, while Avi Ostfeld for Lake Hula.

 

For the Lake Hula project, during the stay of Avi Ostfeld at the University of Arizona,

(Sep. 96-Sep.97), a DSS was developed, comprised of three main components: (1) ArcView

 to interactively prepare and modify GIS data sets, (2) The Department of Defense

 Groundwater Modeling System (GMS) to analyze subsurface flow regimes, and (3) an LP

 (Linear Programming) management model to select optimal water allocation alternatives.

 

More details can be found at:

http://www.esri.com/library/userconf/proc97/proc97/to600/pap596/p596.htm

 

 

Publications:

Theses

1.         Ostfeld A. (1990), "Management of a Regional Water Supply System with Sources of Different Qualities", M.Sc. Thesis, 178 p., Civil Engineering, Technion-Haifa, Israel.

 

2.         Ostfeld A. (1994), "Optimal Design of Reliable Multiquality Water Supply Systems", D.Sc. Thesis, 164 p., Civil Engineering, Technion-Haifa, Israel.

 

Referred papers in professional journals

Published papers

1.         Ostfeld A. and Shamir U. (1993), "Optimal Operation of Multiquality Networks I: Steady State Conditions", Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Division, ASCE, Vol. 119, No. 6, pp. 645 - 662.

 

2.         Ostfeld A. and Shamir U. (1993), "Optimal Operation of Multiquality Networks II: Unsteady Conditions", Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Division, ASCE, Vol. 119, No. 6, pp. 663 - 684.

 

3.         Ostfeld A. and Shamir U. (1996), "Design of Optimal Reliable Multiquality Water

            Supply Systems", Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Division, ASCE, Vol. 122, No. 5, pp. 322 - 333

            .

4.         Kessler A., Ostfeld A., and Sinai G. (1998), "Detecting Accidental Contaminations in

            Municipal Water Networks", Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

            Division, ASCE, Vol. 124, No. 4, pp. 192 - 198.

 

4.a Ostfeld A. and Kessler A. Closure on "Detecting Accidental Contaminations in Municipal Water Networks", Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

            Division, ASCE, September/October 1999, pp. 308-310.

 

5.         Argaman Y., Papkov G., Ostfeld A., and Rubin D. (1999), "Single - Sludge Nitrogen Removal Model: Calibration and Verification", Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 125 No. 7, pp. 608 - 617.

 

6.         Ostfeld A., Muzaffar E., and Lansey K. E., (1999), "Analytical Groundwater Flow Solutions for Channel - Aquifer Interaction", Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 125 No. 4, pp. 196 - 202.

 

7.         Ostfeld A. (2000) "Reliability Analysis of Regional Water Distribution Systems", Journal of Urban Water, Elsevier Science (accepted for publication).

 

Submitted papers

 

8.         Muzaffar E., Ostfeld A., and Lansey K. E., (2000), "Decision Support System for the Lake Hula Project", Journal of Environmental Modeling and Software, Elsevier Science.

 

9.         Ostfeld A. (2000) "An Interactive framework for calibrating activated sludge system models", Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE.

 

 

Review papers

10. Ostfeld A. and Shamir U. (1993), "Incorporating Reliability in Optimal Design of Water Distribution Networks - Review and New Concepts", Journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 42., No. 1, pp. 5 - 11.

 

11. Ostfeld A. (1998), "Israel's Water Sector - Coping with Scarce Resources", World

            Markets Series, Business Briefing: Israel at 50, pp. 130 - 133.

 

Research reports

1.         Reliability Assessment of Single and Multiquality Water Distribution Systems (The Water Research Institute, Technion-Haifa, Israel).

 

2.         Detecting Accidental Contaminations in Municipal Water Networks (The Water Research Institute, Technion-Haifa, Israel).

 

3.         Calibration of Advanced Mathematical Models for Upgrading Activated Sludge Plants Through Improved Design and Operation (The Water Research Institute, Technion-Haifa, Israel).

 

4.         Decision Support System for Arid Land Wetland and Riparian Zones (Civil Engineering, the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA).

           

Conferences:

Invited talks

1.         Ostfeld A. and Shamir U. (1991), "Optimal Operation of Multiquality Distribution Systems: Steady State Conditions", proceedings of a workshop on water quality modeling in distribution systems, EPA, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA,  pp. 111 - 129.

 

Refereed Papers in Conference proceedings

1.         Ostfeld A. and Shamir U. (1993), "Modeling Multiquality Networks", proceedings of the AWWA annual conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA,  pp. 151 - 160.

 

2.         Ostfeld A. and Shamir U. (1994), "Designing Optimal Reliable Multiquality Water Supply Systems", proceedings of the WRPLM annual conference, ASCE, Denver, Colorado, USA,  pp. 270 - 274.

 

3.         Ostfeld A. and Shamir U. (1995), "Water Quality Modeling in Distribution Systems: Overview and State of - the Art in Methods of Solutions", proceedings of the WRPLM annual conference, ASCE, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, pp. 698-701.

 

4.         Ostfeld A. and Shamir U. (1995), "Design of Optimal Reliable Multiquality Water Distribution Systems", proceedings of the 14th European Conference of Operations Research, Jerusalem, Israel, p. 2-148

 

5.         Kessler A., Ostfeld A., and Sinai G. (1997), "Detecting Accidental Contaminations in Municipal Water Networks", proceedings of the WRPLM annual conference, ASCE, Houston, Texas, USA, pp. 732-737.

 

6.         Ostfeld A., Lansey K. E., Salingar Y., and Maddock T. III (1997), "Development of a Decision Support System for the Lake Hula Project", ESRI Annual User's Conference, San Diego, California, published on the web at the site: http://www.esri.com

 

7.         Ostfeld A. and Kessler A. (1998), "Detecting Accidental Contaminations in Municipal Water Networks: Application", proceedings of the WRPLM annual conference, ASCE, Chicago, Illinois, USA, pp. 272-278.

 

8.         Ostfeld A. and Shamir U. (1998), "Using Back - Up Sub - Systems for Design and Operation of Reliable Multiquality Systems ", proceedings of the WRPLM annual conference, ASCE, Chicago, Illinois, USA, pp. 303-306.

 

9.         Ostfeld A., Lansey K. E., and Maddock T. III (1998),     "Development of a Decision Support System for the Lake Hula Project", proceedings of the Israeli Association for Water Resources, EYAL.

 

10.       Ostfeld A. (2000), "Reliability Analysis of Regional Water Distribution Systems - a

            Case Study", proceedings of the WRPLM annual conference, ASCE, Minneapolis,

            Minnesota, USA.

 

11.       Muzaffar E., Helwa A., Lansey K., and Ostfeld A. (2000), "Decision Support System

            for Wetlands and Riparian Zones", proceedings of the WRPLM annual conference,

            ASCE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

 

Special Professional Activities

Ostfeld A., Kronveater L., and Bear J., "Introduction to Hydrology", a Computer-Mediated Distance Learning Course (CMDL), in progress

 

Ostfeld A., "Flood Reservoirs", a one day course presented at the joint Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian, Regional Operational Hydrology Training project, Ramala, March 2000.