Explore our department's active research labs, groups, centers and institutes. Faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are actively engaged in research in the areas of transportation, environment, geotechnics and smart infrastructures.
| Tags | Name | Area | Director | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Artificial Intelligence,Advanced Manufacturing | Adaptive Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ARTS-Lab) | Machine learning; Artificial intelligence, Real-time control; Sensors; Impact; High-rate; Structural health monitoring; Dense sensor networks; Autonomous systems; Embedded systems | Downey, Austin | AI, mechanical, civil, aerospace, |
| Intelligent Infrastructure,Civil and Environmental Engineering | Advanced Railroad Technology Group | Railway engineering; Infrastructure design; Multi-modal transportation | Rizos, Dimitris | civil, environmental |
| Intelligent Infrastructure,Civil and Environmental Engineering | Berge Research Laboratory | Municipal solid waste; Waste conversion to value-added products; Hydrothermal carbonization; Life-cycle assessment; Waste treatment; Waste management; Landfills | Berge, Nicole | waste streams, resource recovery, bioreactor, carbon sequestration, civil, environmental, civil and environmental engineering |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering | BioAerosol Contaminant Transport and Control Technology Lab | Flow visualization; Aerosol diagnostics; Biomechanical property characterization; Artificial intelligence; Multi-variable design spaces | Hoque, Shamia | civil and environmental engineering, civil engineering, environmental engineering, AI |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering | Geotechnical Research and Centrifuge Modeling Laboratories | Soil properties and behaviors; Soil-structure interactions, Geotechnical earthquake engineering; Unsaturated soils; Internal erosion; Centrifuge modeling; Natural hazards | Sasanakul, Inthuorn | natural disaster, flooding, dams, flood, hurricane, sinkhole, civil, environmental |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering | Integrated Water and Environmental Resources Systems (iWERS) | Water resources modeling and management; Systems engineering; Artificial intelligence; Hydrology; Stormwater management; Water/energy/food nexus; Hydroinformatics; Flood modeling and management | Goharian, Erfan | civil, environmental, AI |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Aerospace Engineering,Advanced Manufacturing | Multiscale Manufacturing & Mechanics of Materials and Structures Group (MSMOMS) | Composites; Fibers; Automated tow placement; Process-Structure-Property; Computational/experimental mechanics; Materials-by-Design; Dynamic composite behavior | Sockalingam, Subramani | Aerospace, armor, ballistic impact, mechanical, civil, environmental |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering | Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) | Levee breach; Dam failure; International research; Flooding; Erosion | Chaudhry, Hanif | civil, environmental |
| Intelligent Infrastructure,Transforming Health Care,Civil and Environmental Engineering | Structural Dynamics and Intelligent Infrastructure Laboratory | Structural dynamics; Model updating; Structural health monitoring; Earthquake engineering; Structural control | Caicedo, Juan | civil, environmental, SDII |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering,Intelligent Infrastructure | Transportation Geotechnics Research Group | Railroad infrastructure; Smart track; Pavement; Aggregate behavior; Computer vision; Object detection; Image processing | Qian, Yu | discrete element simulation, computational fluid dynamics, finite element simulation, railway, civil and environmental engineering |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering | Transportation Geotechnics Research Laboratory | Yu Qian | Transportation, Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, Edge Computing, Geotechnics, Railroad, Highway, Pavement, Airport | |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering | Viparelli Group | River engineering; Sediment transport | Viparelli, Enrica | estuary, delta, tides, coast, turbidity current, restoration, morphodynamics, sediment sorting, civil, environmental |
| Mechanical Engineering,Nuclear Engineering,Nuclear Energy,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Aerospace Engineering,Advanced Manufacturing | Visualized Structural Health Monitoring Laboratory | Quantitative nondestructive evaluation; Structural health monitoring; Non-contact guided ultrasonic waves; Remote sensing; Laser technology | Yu, Lingyu | aerospace, civil, mechanical, nuclear |