2019-2020 Civil and Environmental Engineering

Faculty Areas of Thesis Guidance

Professors

Yousef Bozorgnia, Ph.D., P.E. (UC Berkeley, 1981)

Structural engineering, earthquake engineering, engineering seismology

Scott J. Brandenberg, Ph.D., P.E. (UC Davis, 2005)

Geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil-structure interaction, liquefaction, data acquisition and processing, numerical analysis

J.R. DeShazo, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1997)

Regulatory policy, institutional design, environmental economics, energy economics, electric vehicles

Eric M.V. Hoek, Ph.D. (Yale, 2001)

Physical and chemical environmental processes, colloidal and interfacial phenomena, environmental membrane separations, bio-adhesion and bio-fouling

Jennifer A. Jay, Ph.D. (MIT, 1999)

Aquatic chemistry, environmental microbiology

Jiann-Wen (Woody) Ju, Ph.D., P.E. (UC Berkeley, 1986)

Damage mechanics, mechanics of composite materials, computational plasticity, micromechanics, concrete modeling and durability, computational mechanics

Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Ph.D., NAE (U. Washington, 1975)

Hydrologic modeling and prediction, hydrology-climate interactions, hydrologic change

Shaily Mahendra, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 2007)

Environmental microbiology, biodegradation of groundwater contaminants, microbial-nanomaterial interactions, nanotoxicology, applications of molecular biological and isotopic tools in environmental engineering

Steven A. Margulis, Ph.D. (MIT, 2002)

Surface hydrology, hydrometeorology, remote sensing, data assimilation

Ali Mosleh, Ph.D., NAE (UCLA, 1981)

Reliability engineering, physics of failure modeling and system life prediction, resilient systems design, prognostics and health monitoring, hybrid systems simulation, theories and techniques for risk and safety analysis

Gaurav N. Sant, Ph.D. (Purdue, 2009)

Cementitious materials and porous media with focus on chemistry-structure-property relationships and interfacial thermodynamics of materials

Michael K. Stenstrom, Ph.D., P.E. (Clemson, 1976)

Process development and control for water and wastewater treatment plants

Jonathan P. Stewart, Ph.D., P.E. (UC Berkeley, 1996)

Geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, engineering seismology

Ertugrul Taciroglu, Ph.D. (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1998)

Computational structural and solid mechanics, constitutive modeling of materials, structural health monitoring, performance-based earthquake engineering, soil-structure interaction

John W. Wallace, Ph.D., P.E. (UC Berkeley, 1988)

Earthquake engineering, design methodologies, seismic evaluation and retrofit, large-scale testing laboratory and field testing

William W-G. Yeh, Ph.D., NAE (Stanford, 1967)

Hydrology and optimization of water resources systems

Professors Emeriti

Stanley B. Dong, Ph.D., P.E. (UC Berkeley, 1962)

Structural mechanics, structural dynamics, finite element methods, numerical methods and mechanics of composite materials

Lewis P. Felton, Ph.D. (Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1964)

Structural analysis, structural mechanics, automated optimum structural design, including reliability-based design

Michael E. Fourney, Ph.D., P.E. (Caltech, 1963)

Experimental mechanics, special emphasis on application of modern optical techniques

Poul V. Lade, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1972)

Soil mechanics, stress-strain and strength characteristics of soils, deformation and stability analyses of foundation engineering problems

Richard L. Perrine, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1953)

Resource and environmental problems—chemical, petroleum, or hydrological; physics of flow through porous media; transport phenomena; kinetics

Moshe F. Rubinstein, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1961)

Systems analysis and design, problem-solving and decision-making models

Lawrence G. Selna, Ph.D., S.E. (UC Berkeley, 1967)

Reinforced concrete, earthquake engineering

Keith D. Stolzenbach, Ph.D., P.E. (MIT, 1971)

Environmental fluid mechanics, fate and transport of pollutants, dynamics of particles

Mladen Vucetic, Ph.D. (Rensselaer, 1986)

Geotechnical engineering, soil dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, experimental studies of static and cyclic soil properties

Associate Professors

Mekonnen Gebremichael, Ph.D. (U. Iowa, 2004)

Remote sensing of hydrology, watershed hydrologic modeling, hydrometeorology, stochastic processes and scaling

David Jassby, Ph.D. (Duke, 2011)

Water treatment and desalination, membrane separation processes, membrane material fabrication, electrochemistry, environmental applications of nanotechnology

Jian Zhang, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 2002)

Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics and mechanics, seismic protective devices and strategies, soil-structure interaction, and bridge engineering

Assistant Professors

Mathieu Bauchy, Ph.D. (U. Pierre et Marie Curie, France, 2012)

Development of high-performance and sustainable glasses and cementitious materials for infrastructure and handled devices applications; multi-scale simulations of materials

Henry V. Burton, Ph.D., S.E. (Stanford, 2014)

Performance-based earthquake engineering, seismic design, evaluation and retrofit, en-hanced seismic performance systems, building community resilience

Timu W. Gallien, Ph.D. (UC Irvine, 2012)

Urban coastal flood prediction, wave runup and overstopping, coastal hazards, sea level rise, flood control infrastructure and mitigation methods, nearshore remote sensing and observation

Sanjay Mohanty, Ph.D. (U. Colorado Boulder, 2011)

Effect of water change on water quality and quantity; sustainable urban development at the water-energy nexus; transport of contaminants and colloids in the subsurface and groundwater; stormwater capture, treatment, and re-use; bioremediation

Adjunct Professors

Robert E. Kayen, Ph.D., P.E. (UC Berkeley, 1993)

Geomatics and terrestrial laser-topographic modeling, geotechnical earthquake engineering, engineering geology, applied geophysics

Michael J. McGuire, Ph.D., P.E., NAE (Drexel, 1977)

Control of trace organics in water treatment including activated carbon

George Mylonakis, Ph.D., P.E. (SUNY Buffalo, 2005)

Soil mechanics and dynamics, earthquake engineering, geomechanics, stress wave propagation, foundation engineering

Thomas Sabol, Ph.D., S.E. (UCLA, 1985)

Seismic performance and structural design issues for steel and concrete seismic force resisting systems; application of probabilistic methods to earthquake damage quantification

Adjunct Associate Professors

Donald R. Kendall, Ph.D., P.E. (UCLA, 1989)

Hydraulics, groundwater hydrology, advanced engineering economics, stochastic processes

Issam Najm, Ph.D., P.E. (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1990)

Water chemistry; physical and chemical processes in drinking water treatment