Environmental and Civil 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
Al Armendariz
Air pollution control engineering
Design of diesel exhaust emissions controls
Public health impact of air pollution
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
