Faculty
Mel Anderson, Ph.D., P.E.(Carnegie-Mellon University), Professor Emeritus. Hydraulics;
water resources; system analysis; fluid mechanics.
Robert Carnahan, Ph.D., P.E. (Clemson University), Professor Emeritus.
Biological, physical, and chemical treatment of wastewater; recycling and reuse of industrial waste;
desalination.
William C. Carpenter, Ph.D., P.E. (North Carolina State University), Professor and Interim Chairman.
Engineering Education; Structural engineering; Optimization; Viscoelasticity; Fracture mechanics; Adhesive
bonding.
Jeff Cunningham, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Assistant Professor. Contaminant
fate and transport in the environment; physical, chemical and biological processes for water
treatment; water resources and water re-use; remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater.
Personal Website Link
Wayne F. Echelberger, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., BCEE (University of Michigan) Professor Emeritus. Environmental
engineering; environmental quality planning and management; water pollution control; water supply engineering;
solid and hazardous waste management; industrial waste management; public works administration and environmental
health and sanitation.
Manjriker Gunaratne, Ph.D., P.E. (Purdue University), Professor.
Pavement Management Systems, Pavement Design, Probabilistic Methods and Reliability.
Sarina Ergas, PhD (University of California, Davis). Biological treatment processes, including biological air pollution control, membrane bioreactors, nutrient removal and bioremediation processes.
Stanley Kranc, Ph.D., P.E. (Northwestern University), Professor Emeritus. Experimental and theoretical
fluid mechanics; numerical analysis; corrosion of reinforcing steel in concrete; magnetofluidmechanics
and electrohydrodynamics; transport processes; multiphase flow and heat transfer; chemically reacting
flow and combustion; physics of high temperature gases.
Jian J.(John) Lu, Ph.D., P.E. (University of Texas at Austin), Professor. Traffic operations,
intelligent transportation systems, systems design, safety, data acquisition, and pavement performance
modeling.
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Dennis Magolan, B.S. in Construction Engineering from Lawrence Technological University in Detroit, Michigan and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Michigan Tech.
Edward Mierzejewski, Ph.D., P.E. (University of South Florida), Faculty Administrator and CUTR Director. Multimodal transportation planning,
transportation project evaluation, risk analysis, and institutional issues.
James R. Mihelcic Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon University), Professor and a State of Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar. Sustainable development, Green engineering, Global water and sanitation, Engineering education reform. Personal Website Link
Gray Mullins, Ph.D. P.E.(University of South Florida), Associate Professor . Large Scale
Testing, Field Instrumentation, Subsurface Sensing and Characterization. Structural and
geotechnical engineering; Instrumentation; Full-scale testing of bridges and foundations;
StatNamic testing; Alternative load testing techniques.
Mahmood Nachabe, Ph.D., P.E. (Colorado State University), Associate Professor. Subsurface
hydrology; fate and transport of chemicals in the vadose zone; stochastic hydrology; uncertainty in
distributed models.
Karim Nohra M.S. (Georgia Institute of Technology), Instructor Statics; Dynamics; Mechanics
of Materials; Engineering education.
Linda Phillips, B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University specializing in Construction Management.
Abdul Pinjari. (University of Texas at Austin), Assistant Professor. Transportation Planning and Travel Demand Modeling, Econometric Modeling of Travel Behavior, Integrated Land-use Travel Demand Modeling, Sustainable Transportation, Freight Transportation, Travel Data Collection,Transportation Safety.
Steven E. Polzin Ph.D., P.E. (Northwestern University), Associate Professor and Director of the
Mobility Research Program. Public transportation planning and design, mobility and
accessibility, policy analysis, and travel behavior.
Mark Ross, Ph.D., P.E.(University of Florida), Professor. Water resources; hydrologic,
hydraulic, and water quality modeling; surface and groundwater interaction, GIS applications in hydrology;
lake and estuary water quality management; estuary sediment dynamics.
Alberto A. Sagues Ph.D., P.E. (Case Western Reserve University), Distinguished University Professor.
Materials engineering; Corrosion performance of materials for construction and energy applications;
Failure analysis and prevention; Physical metallurgy. Personal Website Link
Rajan Sen Ph.D., P.E. (State University of New York), Professor. Structural Engineering; Bridge
design; Dynamic response of structures; Dynamic behavior of piles; Pre-stressed concrete.
Daniel Simkins, Ph.D.
(University of California at Berkeley), Assistant Professor. Nanomechanics and computational nanomechanics,
Computational biomechanics and computational biology, Computational solid and fluid mechanics, Inverse
problems in structural dynamics, Large-scale computation and parallel computation.
Personal Website Link
Peter Stroot, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati), Assistant Professor. Use of traditional engineering
design, microbiology, and molecular biology to develop low-cost bioreactors. Development of molecular biology
based methods for measuring the specific growth rate of distinct microbial populations in bioreactors.
Personal Website Link
Amy Stuart, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Assistant Professor. Transport and transformation of
pollutants in the atmospheric environment; environmental computational modeling; human exposures to air
pollutants.
Personal Website Link
Andres Tejada-Martinez, Ph.D.
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Assistant Professor. Finite element methods for fluids, Subgrid-scale
parameterizations for large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent flows, Novel LES methodologies, Numerical
simulations of turbulence in the ocean and integration with field observations.
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Maya Trotz, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Assistant Professor. Application of chemical principles
to the study and manipulation of pollutant behavior (e.g. arsenic) in natural aquatic systems and in
engineered processes.
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Daniel Yeh, Ph.D., P.E. (Georgia Institute of Technology), Assistant Professor. Membrane and
biological processes for water purification and wastewater reclamation, industrial wastes minimization,
and the remediation of contaminated soils and sediments; sustainable energy sources and processes;
ecological engineering.
Personal Website Link
Abla M. Zayed Ph.D. (North Carolina State University), Associate Professor. Materials
engineering; Mechanical performance of concrete, metals, and composites.
Qiong Zhang Ph.D. (Michigan Technological University). Green engineering, water treatment, and environmental assessment for sustainability.
Yu Zhang Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley), Assistant Professor. Air Transportation, Transportation Network Modeling and Operations, Transportation Economics and Planning, Freight Transportation and Transportation Sustainability
Staff
Ingrid Hall Staff Assistant
Barbara Johnson Academic Services Administrator
Krystal Sousa Academic Program Specialist
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