Dr. Saied Saiedi is a civil engineer with 33 years of engineering and academic experience in various countries including Canada and US. His hydrotechnical interests cover a wide range: Coastal structures and processes, floating offshore structures, submarine pipelines, free surface flow, hydrodynamics, surface hydrology and flood studies, and dam safety review. He has developed, managed, and reviewed several numerical and physical modeling works.
Dr. Saiedi shares his hydrotechnical experience with Professional Engineers by development and teaching of several applied short-courses in the US and Canada. He has developed, managed, and reviewed several numerical and physical modeling works. His COUPFLEX model (J. of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, May 1997) is among the first coupled simulations of unsteady water-sediment flow. Dr. Saiedi designed and oversaw the construction of a flume for river, wave, and sediment studies at Water Research Laboratory (Sydney, Australia) in 1991-1992. The facility has been since used for many projects involving riverine flows and coastal waves. For several years in the 2000’s, Dr. Saiedi served NAHRIM (National Association of Hydraulic Research in Malaysia) as the senior adviser for coastal engineering projects. While working for PETRONAS (Malaysian national oil and gas company), he trained several groups of engineers from various engineering disciplines to enter the realm of marine engineering. In 2006-2008, Dr. Saiedi conceptually designed a large wave flume and a large wave basin for the “Offshore Engineering Lab.” at UTP for applied research projects in the field of coastal and offshore engineering.
Dr. Saiedi is a senior H&H and coastal engineer, educator, and consultant. Since 2020, he has been working with the Center for Coastal Services (Boynton Beach, FL), Tetra Tech. He was an IEPR panelist for the USACE’s “Collier County Integrated Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) Feasibility Study”, USACE (July 2020). An overview of his background is given on page B-9 of the final IEPR report. In his US experience, he has technically led shore protection projects on Great Lakes (Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario) and Maumee River, design of a pier in Puerto Rico, conceptual design of mitigation measures for three coastal parks in Miami-Dade (FL), and a project for an overseas breakwater for the USACE Middle East District. Dr. Saiedi has extensive concurrent academic experience as a university professor in Civil Engineering. While in Canada, he was the Director of Progress International Consultants and the former Hydrotechnical Discipline Lead (Western North America) of Hatch based in Vancouver, BC.