Dr. Jerry Anderson Associate Professor and Director, Ground Water Institute 304 Engineering Administration Building Phone: 901.678.3062 Email: jlandrsn@memphis.edu Website: gwi.memphis.edu

Jerry L. Anderson holds a B.S. (Tennessee Technological University (TTU), 1967), M.S. (Vanderbilt University, 1968), both in Civil Engineering and Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University, 1972) in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering.  He has been on the faculty to the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis since 1972.  During the summer breaks until 1991, he worked in various branches of the Memphis District Corp of Engineers (MDCOE) and in the Estuaries Division at the Waterways Experiment Station.  Since 1991, he has worked in the Ground Water Institute in the Herff College of Engineering where he became the Director in 1998.  His work for the MDCOE was in the Hydraulics branch and River Stabilization branch of the Engineering Division and in the Plan Formulation Section of the Planning and Management Division.  As Director of the Ground Water Institute, he has directed and conducted research on aquifer systems that supply water to City of Memphis and other municipalities in Shelby County.

In the Department of Civil Engineering, Dr. Anderson has been responsible for the development of the water resources course offerings.  He has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of water resources engineering.  He serves on various Departmental, College and University committees.  Most recently he was the Department’s representative to the Faculty Senate and still serves on the Effort Certification Committee.

Dr. Anderson was the lead author on the first Drainage Manual written for the City of Memphis which was adopted in principal by most of the municipalities in Shelby County.  He has co-authored numerous publications on the hydrodynamics of ground water movement in the Memphis Sand aquifer.  Most recently, he co-authored a comparative assessment of the ground water quality in Memphis with that of the Republic of Moldova.

Dr. Anderson is very active in his professional societies where he holds Life Membership in the American Society of Engineers (ASCE), American Water Works Association, Society of Military Engineers, and Reserve Officers Association.  He is an American Academy of Water Resources Engineer, Diplomate.  Additionally, he is a fellow in the American Society of Engineers.  He has served on various committees and task committees of the Water Resources Planning and Management Division (now Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI)) and was the Chairmen of the Executive Committee FY96.  He continues to serve on several awards committee within EWRI as well as on the ASCE Papers Committee.

Dr. Anderson is a retired Colonel in the Army Corps of Engineers. He was commissioned as a reserve officer while attending TTU in 1966.  He has held many command and staff positions in the reserve forces.  He commanded A Company of the 467^th Engineer Battalion where he also was the S-4, S-3, and became Commander in 1985.  He served as the Assistant Chief of Staff – Engineering and Assistant Chief of Staff – Facilities in the 412^th Engineer Command.  As a Captain in the 412^th, he led the writing, planning, and exercise group which demonstrated the ability of a reserve component force to deploy directly from its homes station.  During his tenure as ACoS-Engr, he was responsible for the planning and employment of numerous capstone Engineer Battalions in support of European Theater of Operations as they maintained and upgraded various training sites and deployment within Theater.  During his tenure as ACoS – Facilities, his section was responsible for the successful competition in the Army Communities of Excellence as the 412^th Engineer Command was the reserve category.