The Department of Civil Engineering offers graduate degree
programs in civil engineering and administers the interdepartmental graduate degree
program in applied mechanics. Degrees offered in civil engineering include the
Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering, the Master of Science in Civil Engineering,
the Master of Applied Mechanics, and
the Doctor of Philosophy. The principal areas of graduate study are environmental
engineering, structures and mechanics, transportation engineering, and applied
mechanics.
The Environmental Engineering program emphasizes environmental hydraulics,
surface and ground water hydrology, water quality control, and water quality modeling.
Research areas include storm water management, urban hydrology, fate and transport
modeling of contaminants in estuaries and coastal waters, sediment-water interactions
of contaminants, remediation of contaminated ground water, and sorption of organic
pollutants to soil.
The Structures and Mechanics educational program is based on the fundamental principles of structural mechanics,
analysis and design of structural systems, properties and uses of basic civil
engineering materials, soil mechanics, and foundation engineering. Research
activities include dynamic response of structures, field testing of highway bridges,
mechanics of composite materials, soil-structure interaction, hysteretic random
vibration, and structural reliability.
Transportation Systems and Management
is concerned with the management and
planning of urban, rural, and intercity facilities, and the need to improve the
mobility and safety of existing systems, developing new projects. Research areas
include decision support systems for intelligent vehicle highway systems, highway
safety, geographic information systems, applications of artificial intelligence,
public transportation operations, and transportation demand management.
The Applied
Mechanics Area of study includes mechanics of composite materials, shell theory,
nonlinear elasticity, fracture mechanics, structural mechanics, random vibrations,
continuum mechanics, high temperature test methods, thermal structures, fluid
mechanics, nonlinear dynamical systems and chaos, biomechanics, optimization,
finite elements, anisotropic elasticity, vibrations, galactic dynamics, planetary
systems, fatigue, and micromechanics.
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