School of Engineering

Mr Doug Bertram

  • Fixed Term Lecturer in Water Engineering (Infrastructure and Environment)

telephone: 01413305210
email: Douglas.Bertram@glasgow.ac.uk


Biography

Douglas Bertram is a Lecturer of Water Engineering.  He graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 2005 with a MEng in Mechanical Engineering with Energy Systems.  He went on to complete an MSc in Water Resources Engineering Management from the University of Glasgow (2006).  His PhD was undertaken at the Department of Civil Engineering at the same university researching improving urban flood assessment practice with enhancements to surface water drainage feature representation within 2D hydraulic modelling of urban flood risk.  He was appointed as a lecturer within the School of Engineering in 2010.


Research Interests

His main research area is hydraulic and computational modelling of urban flooding focussing on the flood hazard and combined effects of debris, sediment and pollution to create flood related environmental hazards and associated risk.  Recent work has focussed on improving modelling of flood mechanics through the representation of flood pathways and integrating urban drainage within modelling effects (with recommendations for software development and improved engineering practice).  Other related research areas include decision support and wider education in Flood Risk Management.


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2010

Bertram, D., Roberts, M., and Haynes, H. (2010) Assessing integrating urban drainage in flood risk assessment modelling: a real world case-study. In: 1st European IAHR Congress, 4-6 May 2010, Edinburgh, UK.

2009

Bertram, D., Roberts, M., and Haynes, H. (2009) Linking Urban Drainage to Surface Water management Models, Environmental Hydraulics. In: International Workshop on Environmental Hydraulics IWEH09, 29-30 October 2009, Valencia, Spain.

Bertram, D., Minto, J., Haynes, H., and Roberts, M. (2009) Analysis of generic modelling of integrated 2D surface water and 1D urban drainage systems. Journal of Flood Risk Management .

Bertram, D., Minto, J., Haynes, H. , and Roberts, M. (2009) Developing Surface Water Management Models: Integrating Urban Drainage Features. In: 33rd IAHR COngress, Water Engineering for a Sustainable Future, 9-14 August 2009, Vancouver, Canada.

2008

Bertram, D., Haynes, H. , and Roberts, M. (2008) Integrated surface water management in flood related environmental risk decision support. In: Universitas 21 Conference on Water, 20-25 July 2008, Birmingham, UK.

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Recent MSc Projects research topics he has supported include integrated urban drainage modelling, 2D hydraulic modelling and socio-economic analysis of flooding on the River Irvine and 2D hydraulic modelling of river channel morphology.

Douglas Bertram’s teaching duties include both undergraduate and post-graduate level courses.  Undergraduate teaching focuses on core subjects in Years 2 and 3: Water Engineering 2 (Course Convener), Design Projects 2A (Water) and Water Engineering 3.  Teaching across this range of subjects includes both hydraulics theory and applied group work.


His teaching at MSc level focuses hydraulics theory and computational modelling topics within the Sustainable River Engineering class, part of the Global Water Sustainability course.