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Gobichettipalayam Vasudevan "G. V." Loganathan (April 8, 1954 – April 16, 2007) was an Indian-American engineer, who, at the time of his death, was a professor in the Department of
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, part of the College of Engineering at
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Life and career

Loganathan was from Karatadipalayam,
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in
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in the southern Indian state of
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. He completed his
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at
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,
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affiliated to the
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in 1976. He later did his M. Tech. at
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and received a doctorate from
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, United States studying under Dr. Jack Delleur. His dissertation was titled ''Multiple objective planning of land/water interface in medium-size cities''. G. V. Loganathan joined
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on December 16, 1981 for his first job teaching civil and environmental engineering courses, and continued to teach at Virginia Tech until his death in 2007. His work focused on the areas of
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and hydraulic networks (pipelines). He co-authored a number of publications and books which have been particularly useful in the field of municipal water supply distribution networks, such as the 2002 AWWA book ''Prioritizing Main Replacement and Rehabilitation'' which has been used by organizations such as
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. He received several Virginia Tech honors, including the Outstanding Faculty Award, the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Civil Engineering Education. He also served as a member of the Virginia Tech faculty senate and a counselor in the Virginia Tech honor court. He was an active member of the
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and Associate Editor of the ''
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'', with expertise in the area of stochastic
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. His work at the university also involved collaboration with the
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office located on campus. Loganathan also served on the American Society of Civil Engineers' Environmental and Water Resources Institute's Trenchless Installation of Pipelines Technical Committee, Environmental and Water Resources Systems Technical Committee and acted as vice chair for the Operations Management Technical Committee.


Death

One week after turning 53, Loganathan was among the 32 people killed by a gunman in the
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on April 16, 2007. Loganathan taught an Advanced Hydrology class in Norris Hall's Room 206. On April 16, 2007,
Seung-Hui Cho Cho Seung-hui (; ; ; January 18, 1984 – April 16, 2007), anglicized as Seung-Hui Cho, was a South Korean mass murderer who perpetrated the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pi ...
entered Norris 206, chained the doors shut and opened fire; Loganathan was Cho's first target. Of the thirteen registered students in Loganathan's class, nine were killed (Brian Bluhm, Matthew Gwaltney, Jeremy Herbstritt, Jarrett Lane, Partahi Lumbantoruan, Daniel O'Neil, Juan Ramon Ortiz, Julia Pryde and Waleed Shaalan) and two more were injured. Another male student survived after being missed by a single shot.


Honors

*
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Wesley W. Horner Award in 1996 for his paper ''Sizing Stormwater Detention Basins for Pollutant Removal''. *
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Best Graduate Paper Award 1996 for the paper ''An Early Warning System for Drought Management Using The Palmer Drought Index'' he co-authored with his PhD student V.K. Lohani. *Virginia Tech Academy of Teaching Excellence W.E. Wine Award in 2006


Selected publications

Loganathan published at least 62 papers, almost all in peer-reviewed journals. He also was a contributing author to at least one published book. This is a partial list of Loganathan's published articles and books: * Kuo, Chin Y., K. A. Cave and G. V. Loganathan. (1988) "Planning of Urban Best Management Practices." '' Water Resources Bulletin'', 24(1):125–132. * Kuo, Chin Y., G.V. Loganathan, W.E. Cox, S.P. Shrestha, and K.J. Ying. (1988) "Effectiveness of BMPs for Stormwater Management in Urbanized Watersheds." ''Document NA Bulletin 159''. Virginia Water Resources Research Center. * Loganathan, G.V., E.W. Watkins, and D. F. Kibler. (1994) "Sizing storm-water detention basins for pollutant removal." ''
Journal of Environmental Engineering The ''Journal of Environmental Engineering'' is a monthly engineering journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The main editor is Dionysios D. Dionysiou of University of Cincinnati. The journal presents broad interdisciplina ...
'', 120(6):1380–1399. New York:
ASCE The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, it is the oldest national engineering soci ...
. * Loganathan, G.V., J. J. Greene, and T. J. Ahn. (1995) "Design Heuristic for Globally Minimum Cost Water-Distribution Systems." '' Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management'', 121(2):182–192. New York:
ASCE The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, it is the oldest national engineering soci ...
. * V.K. Lohani, and Loganathan, G. V. (1997) "An Early Warning System for Drought Management Using The Palmer Drought Index.’" ''
Journal of the American Water Resources Association Founded in 1964, the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) is a multidisciplinary not-for-profit professional association dedicated to the advancement of individuals in water resources management, research, and education. With more than 2,0 ...
'', 33(6):1375-1386. * V.K. Lohani, G.V. Loganathan, S. Mostaghimi. (1998) "Long-term analysis and short-term forecasting of dry spells by Palmer Drought Severity Index." '' Nordic Hydrology'', 29(1):21-40. * Deb, A.K., Grablutz, F.M., Hasit, Y.J., Snyder, J.K., Loganathan, G.V., and N. Agbenowski. (2002) ''Prioritizing Water Main Replacement and Rehabilitation.''
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Research Foundation. Denver, CO. 234 pp. * Loganathan, G.V., Park, S., and Sherali, H.D., "A Threshold Break Rate for Pipeline Replacement in Water Distribution Systems", J. of Water Resou. Plan. and Mgmt., ASCE, vol. 128, no. 4, July 2002, pp. 271–279. * Park, S., and Loganathan, G.V., "A Review and A Methodology for Scheduling Optimal Replacement of Pipes in Water Distribution Systems", Water Engineering Research, Vol.3, No.1, 2002, pp. 63–74. * Geem, Z.W., Kim, J.H., and Loganathan, G.V., "Harmony Search Optimization: Application to Pipe Network Design", International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, vol.22, no.2, paper no. 205–2005, June 2002, pp. 125–133.


References


External links


Virginia Tech faculty profile: G. V. Loganathan
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