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CEE Faculty by Research Area
Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials
- Rigoberto
Burgueño, Associate Professor: development,
performance assessment, and implementation of innovative
materials to civil infrastructure, with emphasis on structural
materials, components and systems, mechanics, design optimization,
large-scale testing, manufacturing techniques, soft-computing
methods; experimental techniques; earthquake engineering;
and bridge design.
- Venkatesh
Kodur, Professor: evaluation of fire resistance of
structural systems through large scale fire experiments
and numerical modeling; characterization of materials
under high temperature; performance based fire safety
design of structures, non-linear design and analysis of
concrete and steel structural systems and building collapse
investigations.
- Nizar Lajnef, Assistant Professor:
sensors design for structural health and usage monitoring,
biomechanical systems, sensors networks design and implementation,
nano-watt and self-powered sensors, smart materials/composites/alloys
and systems.
- Parviz
Soroushian, Professor: advanced structural, protective
and functional materials. He is known for his expertise
in concrete and cement composites. He has also made major
innovations in the field of smart, nano-structured and
composite materials and protective coatings.
Transportation & Pavement Engineering
- Gilbert
Y. Baladi, Professor: characterization of composite
engineering materials used in transportation networks
and building foundations. Fatigue and plastic properties
of soils, unbounded materials, and asphalt pavements.
Behavior of soil subgrades and asphalt pavements under
heavy vehicular loads. Development of pavement performance
prediction models and the back-calculation of engineering
properties of layered systems.
- Neeraj
J. Buch, Professor and Interim Chairperson: concrete
pavement design, rehabilitation, non-destructive testing
of pavements, and composite materials. Development of
rut and fatigue prediction models for flexible pavements
design. Developing crack deterioration algorithms for
rigid pavements. Rehabilitation strategies, and study
of recyclable materials in portland cement concrete and
asphalt concrete.
- Karim
Chatti, Professor, Assoc. Chair Grad Studies & Research
: pavement response and performance modeling, dynamics
of pavements and truck-pavement interaction, pavement
surface roughness, pavement preservation, and characterization
of asphalt concrete mixtures. Effect of design and construction
factors on pavement performance.
- Syed
Waqar Haider, Specialist: mechanistic characterization
of recycled asphalt mixtures and rheology of aged and
virgin binders. Implementation of Superpave asphalt binder
and mixture specifications. Statistical models for multi-modal
axle load spectra. Calibration of performance models in
mechanistic-empirical pavement design. Advance statistical
techniques for pavement performance modeling. Effectiveness
of pavement preservation treatments, effects of non-linear
damage accumulation on pavement performance.
- M. Emin Kutay, Assistant Professor:
experimental and numerical investigation of fundamental
material behavior of asphalt pavements and granular materials.
Improvement of asphalt mix design, better prediction of
fatigue cracking and permanent deformation (rutting) characteristics
of asphalt pavements, pavement surface characteristics
such as smoothness, tire/pavement noise and splash/spray.
- Richard
W. Lyles, Professor and Assoc. Chair Undergrad. Studies:
highway safety issues including topics such as: work zone
safety, the effectiveness of traffic control devices,
safety and mobility of older persons, and surrogate measures
of accident exposure.
- Thomas
L. Maleck, Associate Professor: all areas of highway
engineering; especially geometric design, traffic flow
and control, traffic simulation, and in the reduction
of traffic accidents and personal injuries.
Hydrology and Water Resources
- Shu-Guang Li, Professor:
characterization of groundwater contamination at hazardous waste sites, with emphasis on the integration of simulation models and field data. Interactive modeling tools that accelerate
research transfer. Developed interactive, visual software for deterministic and stochastic modeling of groundwater
flow and contaminant transport.
- Phanikumar S. Mantha, Associate Professor:
reactive transport and the fate of contaminants in surface water and groundwater. Near-shore processes in the Great Lakes and the transport of pathogens in the environment.
Improved methods for reactive transport modeling in the presence of physical and chemical heterogeneity. Surface water groundwater interaction modeling.
- Roger B. Wallace, Associate Professor:
the mechanics of fluids in porous media. Contaminant transport and remediation in groundwater systems including the role of nonaqueous phase liquids. Investigation
of the processes which control in situ remediation in unsaturated and saturated soils, including methods such as forced venting, air sparging, and the use of organomodified soils for sorption zones.
Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Engineering
- Gilbert
Y. Baladi, Professor: characterization of composite
engineering materials used in transportation networks
and building foundations. Fatigue and plastic properties
of soils, unbounded materials, and asphalt pavements.
Behavior of soil subgrades and asphalt pavements under
heavy vehicular loads. Development of pavement performance
prediction models and the back-calculation of engineering
properties of layered systems.
- Karim
Chatti, Professor, Assoc. Chair Grad Studies & Research:
pavement response and performance modeling, dynamics of
pavements and truck-pavement interaction, pavement surface
roughness, pavement preservation, and characterization
of asphalt concrete mixtures. Effect of design and construction
factors on pavement performance.
- Milind
V. Khire, Associate Professor: innovative methodologies
to improve efficiency of leachate recirculation systems
and sensing systems for monitoring performance of bioreactor
landfills, use of recycled tires and glass for environmental
drainage applications, developing cost-effective and sustainable
final cover options, innovative methods to control green-house
collection for gas to energy conversion, and developing
cost-effective ground water clean up systems using electrical
current.
- Thomas
F. Wolff, Associate Professor: application of reliability
analysis and other statistical, numerical and computer
methods to the assessment of engineering systems. Application
of engineering reliability analysis to the evaluation
of dams, levees and other hydraulic structures. Statistical
applications to assess segregation in asphalt pavements,
and improved specifications for sands for athletic fields
to improve stability.
Environmental Microbiology
- Alison M. Cupples, Assistant Professor:
microbial degradation of soil and water contaminants. Previous research has focused on the dechlorination of the groundwater contaminants tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene.
The use of molecular methods to identify and quantify the microorganisms responsible for xenobiotic degradation.
- Syed
Hashsham, Edwin Willits Professor: environmental molecular
biology and mathematical tools to address environmental
engineering issues. Current research focuses on the development
of DNA biochips for parallel detection of microorganisms
important to drinking water and wastewater.
- Irene Xagoraraki, Assistant Professor:
drinking water safety, public health, and water quality engineering. Interested in the detection, removal and inactivation of emerging biological and chemical contaminants in drinking water.
Detection of microbiological pathogens and bacterial toxins.
Environmental Chemistry & Physical Chemical Processes
- Susan J. Masten, Professor:
use of chemical oxidants for the remediation of soils, water, and leachates contaminated with hazardous organic chemicals. Research on the in-situ use of gaseous
ozone to oxidize residual contaminants in saturated soils using ozone sparging and in unsaturated soils using soil venting.
- Volodymyr
V. Tarabara, Associate Professor: colloidal and interfacial
phenomena in aqueous media, membrane processes, advanced
materials and nanotechnology in water quality control,
and environmental implications of nanotechnology.
- Thomas C. Voice, Professor:
mass-transfer of chemical contaminants in systems of environmental interest, with emphasis on interactions between pollutants and soils, sediments, and suspended solids.
Current research is focused on the environmental impact and remediation of terrestrial chemical spills.
- Irene Xagoraraki, Assistant Professor:
drinking water safety, public health, and water quality engineering. Interested in the detection, removal and inactivation of emerging biological and chemical contaminants in drinking water.
Detection of microbiological pathogens and bacterial toxins.
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