Civil and Environmental Engineering focus on a diverse set of issues including transportation engineering and planning, air pollution control and climate change, the treatment and supply of drinking water, pollution prevention and industrial waste treatment, structural analysis and design, earthquake engineering, and disaster prevention and management. The Department’s research covers the breadth of these and other vital areas.
The following are some of the current faculty research concentrations:
Khaled Abdelghany
- Transportation engineering
- Transit and traffic optimization
- Airline systems analysis
Roger O. Dickey
- Process modeling and design of physical, chemical, and biological waste treatment systems
- Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling of water resource systems
- Fate and transport modeling of environmental contaminants in both surface and ground water
- Human and environmental health effects of endocrine disruptors
Usama El-Shamy
- Computational geomechanics using Discrete Element Method and Finite Element Method
- Multi-scale multi-physics modeling of the static and dynamic response of geotechnical systems
- Development and application of new numerical simulation techniques for multi-phase flow in deforming porous media with applications to saturated and unsaturated water flow
- Application of model-based simulations in undergraduate education
Bijan Mohraz
- Earthquake engineering
- Structural dynamics
- Structural analysis and design