Department Faculty

Department Chair

David Zeng

Frank H. Neff Professor   Chair of Civil Engineering

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Soil Dynamics, Soil Mechanics for Vehicle Mobility and In-Situ Resource Utilization for Space Exploration, Vibration of High-speed Trains, Applications of Piezoelectric Sensors in Geotechnical Engineering

Civil Engineering Faculty

Dario Gasparini

Professor

Structures, Wind and Earthquake Engineering, Applied Random Processes, History of Structural Engineering.

Arthur Huckelbridge Jr.

Professor

Structural (particularly bridge) Performance Issues, Structural Dynamics, Earthquake Engineering, Fatigue Lifetime Prediction, and Health Monitoring

Aaron Jennings

Professor

Groundwater Flow and Contamination, Hazardous Waste Management, Geoenvironmental Engineering, Environmental Decision-making, Remediation or Urban Hydraulics

Brian Metrovich

Associate Professor

Structural Engineering, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, Steel Structures, Atomistic Modeling of Failure Phenomena, Structural Health Monitoring and Prognostics, Multiscale Physics Simulation, Nondestructive Evaluation, Acoustic Emissions

Michael Pollino

Assistant Professor

Seismic Analysis and Design, Rehabilitation of Structures and Civil Infrastructure, Large Scale Experimental Testing of Structural Systems and Sub-assemblages, Structural Dynamics, Steel Structures

Kurt Rhoads

Assistant Professor

Environmental Biotechnology, Bioremediation, Environmental Fate of Nanoparticles and Persistant Organic Compounds, Biofuel Development for Algae, Energy Recovery from Wastewater

Adel Saada

Professor

Elasticity, Statics and Dynamics of Soils and Foundations, Soil Instabilities - Shear Banding and Liquefaction

Xiong "Bill" Yu

Associate Professor

Geotechnical and Infrastructure Engineering, Environmental Geotechnology, Foundation Engineering, Nondestructive Testing, Sensor Technology for Infrastructure, Environment and Energy Applications, Multi-scale Model of Civil Engineering Materials and Systems, Computer-aided Design, Green Design, Sustainable Engineering

Adjunct Faculty

Terrance Cybulski

Lecturer

Ken Klika

Adjunct Professor

Lance Wanamaker

Lecturer

Katie Wheaton