Civil , Construction , and Environmental Engineering 2013 - 2014 Research Projects

interested in understanding, modeling and forecasting hydrological fluxes at large spatial scales based on land surface and climatic indices. Other topics of research include water resources planning and management and environmental assessment in developing countries. the interface of environmental process engineering and energy. This includes topics such as the conversion of waste materials to fuel (anaerobic digestion, biofuels, waste incineration, gasification, etc.), and sustainability considerations of these, and more traditional, processes. To help explore these research questions he makes use of experimentation, computational fluid dynamics, and life-cycle assessment tools. in systems engineering and computing applications in civil engineering; concurrent and distributed algorithms and systems; formal approaches for reasoning about computer systems; mathematical modeling, optimization, and support for engineering design; verification of real-time systems. Institute of Technology (2008); interested in combining small-scale experimental techniques with multiscale modeling of the complex porous composite materials often encountered in civil engineering, including cements, rocks, and fiber-reinforced interested in soil and site improvement, grouting, laboratory and in-situ material characterization, behavior of foundations in residual soils, soil-structure interaction, excavation support systems and analysis of the causes of failures. interested in the interface between microbial ecology and environmental engineering. At this interface, molecular techniques are utilized as powerful tools for the analysis of microbial populations in engineered and natural treatment systems. Environmental process engineering is approached from a fundamental standpoint-combining the