Faculty By Program
Civil Systems
Modelling and control of distributed parameters systems: large scale infrastructure systems, transportation, water distribution
Risk Assessment and Management, Reliability, Human and Organizational Factors, Quality Assurance & Quality Control, Design, Construction, Maintenance, Operations, Decommissioning, Ocean engineered systems (platforms, pipelines, ships).
Structural reliability, risk analysis, random vibrations, earthquake engineering
wireless sensors networks, snow water hydrology, internet of water, geophysics and wave propagation, geothermal energy, rock mechanics
Transportation Planning, Transportation Systems Analysis, Air Transportation
Transportation Infrastructure Management, Infrastructure Performance Modeling, Transportation Systems Sustainability, Traffic Safety
Transportation, wireless communications and inertial navigation for vehicle systems
Design of steel and composite structures, performance-based design, development of advanced experimental methods, and applications of augmented and virtual reality
Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate
Current research focuses on (1) fuel-efficient biomass stoves, (2) removing arsenic from groundwater used for drinking, and (3) energy efficiency in commercial buildings, including economic analyses of specific energy end-use isses in developing countries. Past research has focused on transport processes affecting indoor air and airborne pollutants including radon and chem-bio agents. Modeling of population exposures to airborne pollutants. Disinfection of drinking water for developing countries.
Air quality; assessment and control of gasoline and diesel engine emissions; sustainable transportation; photochemical modeling of urban/regional air quality
Environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems, environmentally-conscious construction
Transportation Infrastructure Management, Infrastructure Performance Modeling, Transportation Systems Sustainability, Traffic Safety
• Indoor environmental quality, emphasizing the following topics: pollutant-surface interactions; transport/mixing phenomena; aerosols; semivolatile organic compounds; environmental tobacco smoke; source characterization; reactive chemistry; control techniques
• Exposure analysis: development and application of methods for assessing exposure to air pollutants
Constitutive Modeling of Soil Response, Numerical Simulation of Soil-Structure Interaction, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.
Characterization of weakly cemented soils, modeling of groundwater contaminant transport
Design of steel and composite structures, performance-based design, development of advanced experimental methods, and applications of augmented and virtual reality
Engineering and Project Management
Lean Construction, Design Management, Performance and Productivity Improvement
Risk Assessment and Management, Reliability, Human and Organizational Factors, Quality Assurance & Quality Control, Design, Construction, Maintenance, Operations, Decommissioning, Ocean engineered systems (platforms, pipelines, ships).
Environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems, environmentally-conscious construction
Strategic Trends and Strategic Planning in the Construction Industry, Project Control, Management Systems
Lean construction, e-commerce, supply-chain management, Materials Management, Construction Processes
Environmental Engineering
Environmental microbiology and ecology, bio-transformation and fate of environmental contaminants, and innovative molecular and isotopic techniques for studying microbial ecology of bio-remediation communities.
Environmental fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, large-eddy simulation, turbulence modeling, atmospheric boundary layer flow, flow over complex terrain, urban dispersion modeling, coupled land-atmosphere modeling
Hydroclimatology; analysis of large scale water resource systems; analysis of hydrologic and environmental systems; surface water hydrology; clean water and sanitation in developing countries.
Current research focuses on (1) fuel-efficient biomass stoves, (2) removing arsenic from groundwater used for drinking, and (3) energy efficiency in commercial buildings, including economic analyses of specific energy end-use isses in developing countries. Past research has focused on transport processes affecting indoor air and airborne pollutants including radon and chem-bio agents. Modeling of population exposures to airborne pollutants. Disinfection of drinking water for developing countries.
The interactions between atmospheric chemistry and terrestrial biogeochemistry, and how these interactions influence biosphere-atmosphere exchange and determine atmospheric composition.
Air quality; assessment and control of gasoline and diesel engine emissions; sustainable transportation; photochemical modeling of urban/regional air quality
Biological water and wastewater treatment processes; biofilms and their development; analysis of full-scale treatment reactors; nutrient control; sustainable development
Quantification of contaminant transport processes in natural and altered environments
Air quality and climate impacts of particulate matter: trends in emission sources and controls, especially from cars, trucks and developing-world cookstoves; chemical and physical properties of soot particles; soot-caused albedo reduction of snow, aerosol measurement methods; building envelope reflectance and cool roof technologies
• Indoor environmental quality, emphasizing the following topics: pollutant-surface interactions; transport/mixing phenomena; aerosols; semivolatile organic compounds; environmental tobacco smoke; source characterization; reactive chemistry; control techniques
• Exposure analysis: development and application of methods for assessing exposure to air pollutants
Natural systems for water and wastewater treatment, detection and inactivation of pathogens in water and sludge
Groundwater hydrology; inverse modeling, modeling of flow and contaminant transport in porous media; environmental risk assessment; geostatistics; characterization of geologic media using remote sensing; geophysical techniques for environmental and agricultural applications
Aqueous environmental chemistry, water recycling, contaminant fate in receiving waters
Fluvial hydraulics, environmental river mechanics, basic sediment transport
Coastal hydrodynamics; hydrodynamic circulation in the surf-zone, estuaries and wetlands; wave-current interaction, wave theory, real sea states
Environmental geochemistry; physics of contaminant movement in subsurface environments; stochastic and deterministic modeling of contaminant transformation and transport
Physical processes in estuaries and the coastal ocean; environmental fluid mechanics; circulation of estuaries, coastal lagoons and the coastal ocean; transport and mixing in stratified flows; estuarine marsh restoration and sediment transport.
Ecohydrology, surface hydrology, spatial ecology, arid and semi-arid watersheds and ecosystems, pattern formation, nonlinear dynamics, plant physiology, water resource sustainability
Environmental fluid dynamics, experimental methods, mixing and transport by turbulence, air-sea exchange and the global carbon budget, hydrodynamic effects on aquatic organisms, nonlinear dynamics and coupled systems, energy-efficient mixing and particle removal for water treatment, and inquiry education.
Nonlinear coupled motions of offshore structures, operations research, shallow-water wave mechanics
Coastal and offshore engineering, ocean wave properties, beach erosion control, tsunamis
Geoengineering
Earthquake engineering, geotechnical engineering, physical and numerical modeling, and environmental geotechnics
wireless sensors networks, snow water hydrology, internet of water, geophysics and wave propagation, geothermal energy, rock mechanics
Characterization and analysis of discontinuous rocks, rock mechanics
Applied geophysics, electromagnetic methods, electrical properties of rocks and soils, field surveys and interpretation
Constitutive Modeling of Soil Response, Numerical Simulation of Soil-Structure Interaction, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.
Static and dynamic evaluation of soil properties, constitutive behavior of sands, liquefaction of unusual soil
Soil/structure interaction; slope stability and performance of dams and waste fills, geotechnical earthquake engineering
Characterization of weakly cemented soils, modeling of groundwater contaminant transport
Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials
Rehabilitation of non-ductile reinforced concrete buildings by using steel joint jackets and encasement plates
DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURES, EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
• Selection and Scaling of Ground Motions for Nonlinear Response History Analysis of Buildings
• Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Arch Dams
Structural reliability, risk analysis, random vibrations, earthquake engineering
Nonlinear analysis of structures, performance-based earthquake engineering
Theoretical and computational solid mechanics,constitutive theory, micromechanics
Behavior of structures, earthquake engineering
Admixtures, aggregates, cements, composite materials, concrete, industrial waste management and reuse
Concrete, masonry, and wood structures; Fracture and damage mechanics; Earthquake engineering; Energy-efficient structures
- Seismic analysis, design, and testing of structures
- Development of earthquake resistant and resilient structural systems using seismic isolation, rocking, and energy dissipation devices.
- Reinforced concrete mechanics, and modeling
- Earthquake ground motion characterization for analysis, and design
Design philosophy for seismic loading of steel structures, science and technology policy at federal and state levels, issues in engineering education
Artificial intelligence, bridges, computers, computing, dynamics, mechanics, earthquake engineering
Elasticity/viscoelasticity, impact and collision phenomena, materials properties, mechanics, dynamics, waves
Design of steel and composite structures, performance-based design, development of advanced experimental methods, and applications of augmented and virtual reality
Mechanics of solids, computational mechanics, finite element methods, finite element software
Analysis and design of large structural systems, field testing of structures, computational mechanics, numerical methods
Transportation Engineering
Detection of faultline movements using modern surveying techniques, image processing applications in photogrammetry
Logistics, Networks, Traffic flow theory and control, Public transportation. For more information, please see web page.
Transportation economics, policy and planning, air transportation, public transportation
Transportation Planning, Transportation Systems Analysis, Air Transportation
Transportation Infrastructure Management, Infrastructure Performance Modeling, Transportation Systems Sustainability, Traffic Safety
Pavement design and rehabilitation, Asphalt paving technology , Transportation facilities design
Availability and reliability of communications, navigation and surveillance systems, airport systems planning and design, airport and airspace capacity and delay analysis, systems modeling and performance analysis, National Airspace System (NAS) infrastructure performance and investment analysis, NAS maintainability, air traffic flow management, cost/benefit analysis, simulation modeling and analysis, human factors and cognitive psychology
Traffic engineering, traffic control systems, traffic management, transportation and the environment
Urban Transportation Planning , Transportation Economics and Finance, Ethics in Planning