Graduate Studies Areas of Specialization
The department of Civil and Environmental Engineering focuses on five areas of research and teaching.
Environmental Engineering
Environmental quality monitoring and modeling, water and wastewater treatment processes, optimization of water distribution systems, hazardous and solid waste management, public health risk assessment, and natural treatment systems.
Geotechnical Engineering
Fundamental physical and chemical processes, computation modeling and simulation, full-scale engineering design.
Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics
Advanced finite element techniques; constitutive modeling of engineering materials; cumulative damage assessment of structures and characterization of structural behavior under earthquake loading; centrifuge modeling studies for soils and soil/structure interaction; computer-aided design; development of ductile structural systems and retrofit of non-ductile systems for enhanced seismic performance; non-destructive evaluation of material properties; and, computational analysis of fracture.
Transportation Engineering
Systems analysis, planning, and policy analysis and an understanding of fundamental relationships within and between transportation and other systems.
Water Resources Engineering
Water quality, hydrology, mixing processes in natural systems, computational hydraulics, groundwater, modeling, and water resources planning and management.