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HINDS 22.12. 1881 Warrenton AL/USA 15.07. 1977 Santa Barbara CA/USA Julian Hinds obtained the civil engineering degree from University of Texas, Austin TX, in 1908. He was then there an instructor of civil engineering until 1911, when joining the design office of the US Bureau of Reclamation USBR, Denver CO, for the Elephant-Butte and the Yakima-Sunnyside projects. From 1926 to 1929 Hinds was a resident engineer for the Calles project, Aguascalientes MX, joining then the Department of Water & Power, Los Angeles CA as hydraulic design engineer. He was transferred to the Metropolitan Water District in 1931, becoming assistant chief engineer in 1933 and general manager and chief engineer in 1941 until retirement in 1951. From then to 1956 Hinds was chief engineer of the United Water Conservation District, then becoming a private consultant. Hinds was the first to correctly formulate the equation of spatially-varied flow in his 1926 paper, for which he was awarded the ASCE Norman Medal. He was also a coauthor of various important books in dam engineering, given his practical experiences in hydraulic structures. In parallel he also developed a number of hydraulic structures, including stilling basins, Venturi flumes or gate elements. Hinds was awarded Honorary Membership of ASCE in 1959 for his achievements in irrigation, reclamation and water supply, particularly the development of Southern California’s Colorado River supply. The Julian Hinds Award, an annual ASCE distinction, is presented from 1974 for outstanding research in the field of water resources development. Anonymous (1941). Julian Hinds. Engineering News-Record 146(Apr.3): 508. P Anonymous (1954). James W. Rickey Medal: Julian Hinds. Civil Engineering 24(9): 610. P Anonymous (1959). Hinds, Julian. Who’s who in engineering 8: 1020. Lewis: New York. Anonymous (1978). Julian Hinds. Trans. ASCE 143: 564-565. Creager, W.P., Justin, J.D., Hinds, J. (1945). Engineering of dams. Wiley: New York. Hinds, J. (1920). The hydraulic jump and the critical depth in the design of hydraulic structures. Engineering News-Record 85(22): 1034-1040; 86(3): 135; 86(4): 185-186; 86(6): 272. Hinds, J. (1925). Automatic spillway gates of Black Canyon Dam. Engineering News-Record 94(26): 1046-1050. Hinds, J. (1926). Side channel spillways: Hydraulic theory, economic factors, and experimental determination of losses. Trans. ASCE 89: 881-939. Hinds, J. (1935). Design of hydraulic structures. Civil Engineering 5(2): 77-82. Hinds, J. (1942). Canals. Handbook of hydraulics, C.V. Davis, ed. McGraw-Hill: New York.
