• Head of Student Development and Support for School of Civil Engineering.
• Programme Champion for the degrees in Energy Engineering
• Mathematics Learning Centre manager
• Civil Engineering First Year Director
• Civil Engineering Design Theme Lead

Teaching Interests

Hydraulics, hydrodynamics, water waves, open channel flow, communication skills, design.

Current modules

• CE 1IEE – Introduction to Energy Engineering
• CE 1DPSa – Design and Professional Skills
• EE 1ECS – Electrical Electronic and Computer Systems (laboratory part)
• MT 3RENa – Renewable Energy (Marine energy part)
• CE 3ERA – Environmental Risk Assessment (part)
• MT 3ACEb – Advanced Conventional Energy 
• CEM4A1 – MEng Interdisciplinary Design (Co-ordinator)
• CE 5SW1a – Surface Water Resources 1

Research Interests

• Field work on sea-bed processes under waves
• Sediment transport under water waves
• The Boundary element method and its applications to non-linear water wave problems.
• Laboratory experimental work on water waves and their effects. Large-scale experimental work in UK Coastal Research Facility and Dutch Deltaflume.

Selected Publications

Coates,L.E. ‘Boundary Elements Applied to Laminar Flow in Irregular Ducts’, Proc. of 8th Int. Conf. on Boundary Elements, Tokyo, Sept. 1986.

Metje, N.; Williams, J.J.; Coates, L.E., Wave-induced sediment transport. HANSA International Maritime Journal, 138, No. 3, pp. 66-68, 2001.

Pearson, J.M., Guymer, I., West, J.R. and Coates, L.E. Effect of Wave Height on Cross-Shore Solute Mixing, J. Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Am. Soc. Civ. Eng. Vol 128, No. 1., January 2002, pp 10 – 20.

Williams, J. J.; Bell, P. S.; Thorne, P. D.; Metje, N.; Coates, L. E.: Measurement and prediction of wave-generated suborbital ripples. Journal of Geophysical Research VOL. 109, C02004, 2004, pp .

WILLIAMS, J. J., METJE, N., COATES L. E. & ATKINS, P. R., 2007. Modelling Convective Sand Resuspension, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L15603, doi:10.1029/2007GL03076.