Undergraduate Program

Faculty

Faculty Member John Berger
Dr. Berger's research interests are in the general area of modeling the mechanical behavior and fracture of advanced materials. Recent projects have focused on fracture of ductile/brittle composites, elastic wave propagation in cylindrically anisotropic rods, and the development of boundary element methods for anisotropic materials.

Faculty Member Joe Crocker
Interest focuses on structural materials and design. Specializes in undergraduate instruction in geotechnical and structural engineering, and graduate instruction in structural engineering.

Faculty Member D. Vaughan Griffiths
Dr. Griffiths is a Professor of Civil Engineering specializing in Geotechnical Engineering. His research is directed at finite element modeling of geotechnical problems across a spectrum ranging from traditional areas of foundations engineering, to oil recovery geomechanics and probabilistic methods.

Faculty Member Marte Gutierrez
Marte Gutierrez is the James R. Paden Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering. His main research interest is in the development and application of advanced computational models and information technologies for geotechnical applications.

Faculty Member Panos Kiousis
Panos D. Kiousis, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Self Consolidating and High Performance Concrete, Earthquake engineering, Structural Controls, Bridge Health Evaluation, Structural Optimization, Use of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites to Strengthen/Repair Structures, Finite Elements, Inelastic Constitutive Modeling, Interface Characteristics of Dissimilar Materials.

Faculty Member Ning Lu
I am a Professor and Program Coordinator of Civil Engineering. My primary research interest is to seek common threads among basic soil physical phenomena including fluid flow, chemical transport, heat transfer, stress, and deformation. I pursue understanding of these phenomena at fundamental levels, including unifying atomic-scale potentials, inter-particle forces, and engineering-scale stresses in soils.

Faculty Member Mike Mooney
Mike's interests lie in intelligent geoconstruction, sensing and instrumentation, vibrations and intelligent systems. Current projects include intelligent underwater soil compaction (for the Venice lagoon restoration project), machine-soil interaction, developing pad-soil sensing systems, and the rapid assessment of layered earthwork in pavement systems. Mike is the Director for SmartGeo, an interdisciplinary graduate education program in intelligent geosystems and is involved in the Center for Automation, Robotics and Distributed Intelligence (CARDI).

Faculty Member Candace Sulzbach
Candace Sulzbach is a Lecturer in the Division of Engineering where she has taught since August 1983. Candy teaches Mechanics of Materials, Design of Steel Structures, Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Field Session - land surveying and Surveying II.

Faculty Member Judith Wang
Judith Wang, assistant professor of engineering, has research and teaching interests in the areas of dynamic soil-structure interaction, soil dynamics, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, reliability, and the history and heritage of civil engineering.

Faculty Member Alexandra Wayllace
Alexandra Wayllace is a lecturer and lab coordinator in the Division of Engineering. She is interested in designing and conducting experiments to measure different soil properties for saturated and unsaturated soils

Faculty Member Ray Ruichong Zhang
Dr. Zhang's research interest resides in continuum mechanics, vibration theory, stochastic processes and fields, and advanced data processing and analysis for sensory systems, disaster assessment and mitigation, and structural/geotechnical nondestructive evaluation and health monitoring.