Research

Scholarship in the department is focused around three primary application domains: environmental processes, hydrology and water resources structural engineering, and transportation systems engineering.

Environmental Processes:  Physical, chemical and biological processes that bear on water and waste treatment, water reuse, contaminant fate and transport, water quality and human health

Hydrology and Water Resources:  Processes that control the transport and distribution of water in the environment and their influence on water supplies, flooding, ecosystems and climate

Structural Engineering:  Application of analytical and experimental approaches to the investigation of the effects of earthquakes and other extreme hazards on constructed facilities

Transportation Systems Engineering:  Planning, design, operation, and management of modern transportation systems