Paul H. Simms
Professor in Environmental Engineering
| Degrees: | B.E.Sc., M.E.Sc., Ph.D. (Western Ontario), P.Eng. |
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 2079 |
| Email: | paul.simms@carleton.ca |
| Office: | 2372 (Mackenzie) |
| Website: | Research webpage |
Prof. Simms’ mailbox is located in room 3432 C.J. Mackenzie Building, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6 Canada
Previous Teaching Assignments
- ECOR4995 Professional Practice
- CIVE4307 Municipal Hydraulics
- CIVE4407 Municipal Engineering
- ENVE4002 Environmental Geotechnical Engineering
- ENVE4006 Contaminant Hydrogeology
- ENVE4101 Waste Management
- ENVE4918 Design Project
- CIVE5503 Numerical Methods in Geomechanics
- ENVE5204 Resource Waste Management
- ENVE5301 Contaminant Hydrogeology
- ENVE5701 Environmental Geotechnique (also taught as ENVE5702 and ENVE5703)
- ENVE5703 Mine Waste Management (also taught as ENVE5704)
Research Interests
- Mine waste management
- Thickened tailings disposal on surface and as mine backfill
- Fundamental unsaturated soil mechanics and
- Evolution of soil microstructure due to drying
Awards
2011 Research Achievement Award, Carleton University. Check out the video.
Research Team
- Yagmur Babaoglu Ph.D. (In Prog.)
- Christopher Hey M.A.Sc. (2019)
- Oswaldo Hurtado M.A.Sc. (2018)
- Muhammad Hissan Khattak M.A.Sc. (2018)
- Shabnam Mizani Ph.D. (In Prog.) Experimental Study and Surface Deposition Modelling of Amended Oil Sands Tailings Products
- Muhammad Asif Salam Ph.D. (In Prog.) (co-supervised with Prof. B. Ormeci)
- Manuel Sanchez Sardon M.A.Sc. (In Prog.) Combined Evaporation and Freeze-Thaw Effects in Polymer Amended Mature Fine Tailings (co-supervised by M. Rayhani)
- William Thomas M.Eng. (Project) (2016)
- Tariq Bajwa Ph.D. (2015) Microstructure and macroscopic behaviour of in-line thickened oil sands mature fine tailings
- Mahsa Gholami M.A.Sc (2015)
- Elizaveta Rozina M.A.Sc. (2015)
- Yagmur Babaoglu M.A.Sc. (2014) Deposition Modeling of High Density Tailings using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
- Khalil Djalil M.A.Sc. (2014)
- Chuck Durrant M.Eng. (Project) (2014)
- Prabodha Jayasinghe M.A.Sc. (2014) Prototype testing of a modified poroelastic matric suction sensor
- Farzad Daliri Ph.D. (2013) The influence of desiccation and over-consolidation on monotonic and cyclic shear response of thickened gold tailings
- Parviz Heidarian M.A.Sc. (2013) Effect of Initial state on water-retention behaviour of mine tailings
- Tessa Innocent M.A.Sc. (2013)
- Adrian Manlagnit M.Eng. (Project) (2013) Bench Scale Characterization of Settling Properties of Thickened Tailings
- Mandy Witteman M.A.Sc. (2013) Unsaturated Flow in Hydrating Porous Media: application to cemented paste backfill
- Adedeji Samuel Dunmola Ph.D. (2012) Predicting Evaporative Fluxes in Saline Soil and Surface-deposited Thickened Mine Tailings.
- Chris Mamen M.Eng. (Project) (2012)
- Hyunseung Kim M.Eng. (Project) (2011) Effect of Over-consolidation and Desiccation on the Response of a Gold Mine Tailings under Simple Shear Loading
- Shabnam Mizani M.A.Sc. (2010)
- Rachel E. Bryan M.A.Sc. (2009)
- Mahmud Amer Al Tarhouni M.A.Sc. (2008) Liquefaction and Post-liquefaction behaviour of gold mine tailings under simple shear loading
- Bereket Tsegai Fisseha M.A.Sc. (2008) Flow Behavior in Multilayer Deposits of Unsaturated Paste Tailings
- Julio Antonio Henriquez M.A.Sc. (2008) Dynamic Imaging and Modelling of Gold Paste Tailings Flows