Faculty Research Interest
G. Alberto Arroyo Professor
Areas of Interest: Structures/forensic analysis.
Sazzad Bin-Shafique Assistant
Professor
Areas of Interest: Beneficial use of wastes and industrial by-products, solidification and stabilization of soil and waste, waste geotechnics, remediation geotechnics, leachability testing and groundwater & contaminant transport modeling.
Samer Dessouky Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Asphalt pavement materials.
Manuel Diaz Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Structures/bridges.
Richard French Professor
Area of Interest: Hydrology and hydraulics of semi-arid lands.
Drew Johnson Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Research and development of novel membrane separation and transfer processes for air and water systems, Research and development of biological, physical and chemical processes for water, wastewater and waste treatment, Water conveyance and conservation
A.T. Papagiannakis Professor & Department Chair
Areas of Interest: Pavement-vehicle interaction, pavement traffic loading and micromechanical analysis of asphalt concretes.
Hatim Sharif Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Hydrologic
analysis, modeling, and prediction, land-atmosphere interactions,
remote sensing application in hydrometeorology, application
of geographic information systems (GIS) in water resources,
water quality and contaminant transport modeling, statistical
analysis of hydrologic processes, water resources systems
planning and management, applications of operations research
in water resources problems, erosion and sedimentation.
Heather Shipley Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Fate, transport and reactivity of chemicals in natural systems/contaminant adsorption/desorption involving nano-particles.
Chia Shun (Rocky) Shih Professor
Areas of Interest: Waste water treatment and environmental risk analysis.
Jose Weissmann Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Transportation infrastructure management and pavement materials.
Mijia Yang Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: High energy absorbing materials and structures, innovative structural health monitoring and novel numerical modeling techniques (adaptive peridynamics).
Asadul Chowdhury Adjunct Associate
Professor
Areas of Interest: Structural and soil/rock mechanics and dynamic/seismic effects.
Thomas B. Morrow Adjunct Associate
Professor
Areas of Interest: Fluid flow measurements and modeling.