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2019-2020 Graduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering


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Faculty

Roberto Ballarini. Thomas and Laura Hsu Professor and Department Chair; Ph.D., Northwestern University; P.E., F.ASCE, F.EMI; solid and structural mechanics, fracture and fatigue, structural testing at very small scales, microelectromechanical systems, bioinspired design of composites.

Abdeldjelil Belarbi. Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Professor; Ph.D., University of Houston; P.E.: structural health monitoring, smart sensors, structural performance and durability in natural disasters, constitutive modeling of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures.

Dennis Clifford. Thomas and Laura Hsu Professor Emeritus; Ph.D. University of Michigan: Development of Electrocoagulation-Microfiltration Systems for Water Treatment.

Mina Dawood. Associate Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State University; P.Eng.: fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites and steel structures.

Amr Elnashai. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, MSc, DIC, PhD Imperial College London, earthquake response and assessment of buildings and bridges, regional earthquake impact assessment, mitigation, response and recovery, fire-following earthquakes, hybrid analytical-experimental simulation of complex structure-foundation systems.

Osman I. Ghazzaly. Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin: soil-structure interaction, behavior of expansive clays.

Craig L. Glennie. Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Calgary (Canada); P.Eng.: remote sensing, LiDAR, navigation, kinematic geodesy.

Kye J. Han. Associate Professor Emeritus; D.Sc., Washington University in St. Louis: structural engineering and mechanics. (VMOE)

Reagan Sentelle Herman. Instructional and Research Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin: structural engineering, bridge engineering, field monitoring.

Thomas T. C. Hsu. Moores Professor; Ph.D., Cornell University; P.E.: reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, structural mechanics, construction materials.

Yandi Hu. Assistant Professor; Ph.D.; Washington University in St. Louis: engineered nucleation and growth of nanomaterials for biomedical and industrial applications.

Hyongki Lee. Associate Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State University: satellite geodesy and remote sensing.

Hong-Yi Li. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Hydrology and Water Resources.

Stacey Louie. Assistant Professor; PhD. Carnegie Mellon University: environmental nanotechnology.

Yi-Lung Mo. Professor; Ph.D., University of Hannover (Germany): structural engineering, earthquake engineering.

Kalyana B. Nakshatrala. Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign: computational and theoretical mechanics; flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media, fluid-structure interaction.

Hanadi S. Rifai. Professor; Ph.D., Rice University; P.E.: surface water and groundwater hydrology, contaminant transport and remediation, environmental modeling and geographic information systems.

William G. Rixey. Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley: contaminant fate and transport, hazardous waste treatment processes.

Debora F. Rodrigues. Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State University: environmental microbiology and biotechnology.

Jerry R. Rogers. Associate Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Northwestern University; P.E.: water resources and quality, stormwater runoff, urban planning.

David L. Shaffer. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., P.E.,Yale University: materials and systems for water treatment.

Ramesh L. Shrestha. Professor; PhD. University of Wisconsin, Madison: geosensing and LiDAR.

James M. Symons. Sc.D., P.E. Professor Emeritus. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Joseph W. Tedesco. Professor and Elizabeth D. Rockwell Dean; PhD., Lehigh University; P.E.: finite element modeling of structures, response of structures to dynamic loads, repair of concrete structures with FRP, wave propagation in elastic and inelastic media, high strain rate effects on materials and structures.

Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan. Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern University; P.E.: geomechanics, experimental methods, waste disposal.

Keh-Han Wang. Professor and Director of Engineering Graduate Program; Ph.D., Iowa State University: coastal/estuary hydrodynamics.

Kaspar J. Willam. Hugh Roy & Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor; Dr.-Ing. habil., University of Stuttgart (Germany); Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley: computational mechanics, finite elements.

Adjunct Faculty

Anestis S. Veletsos. Distinguished Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: structural engineering and mechanics, structural and foundation dynamics, earthquake engineering, dynamics of offshore platforms.

Mohamad Mansour; Ph.D.; P.E.

Joseph Salanitro; Ph.D.

Affiliated Faculty

Saurabh Prasad; Ph.D.; Mississippi State University.

Gangbing Song; Ph.D.; Columbia University.

Guoquan Wang; Ph.D; Institute of Geology, China: Applications of GPS Geodesy and LIDAR in Geological Hazards Study and Mitigation