Faculty and Staff Directory
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Director, Center for Structural Durability
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Prestressed Concrete Bridges
- Reinforced Concrete Design
- Bridge Engineering - Design and Construction
- Structural Analysis and Mechanics
Research Interests
- Structural Engineering
- Prestressed Concrete Bridges
- Applications of UHPC for Buildings and Bridges
- Nondestructive Evaluation and Testing
- Remote Sensing for Bridge Condition Assessment
- Bridge Inspection with Today’s Advancing Technologies
- Anchorage and Development of Reinforcement
- Research Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Adjunct Assistant
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Senior Environmental Engineer, Saudi
Aramco
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Teaching Interests
- Environmental Processes Engineering (graduate class)
- Environmental Engineering
- Engineering Design Project
- Environmental Processes and Simulation
- Chemical processes, water chemistry
- Lake Superior Ecology
Research Interests
- Advanced water treatment and removal of VOCs from water.
- Advanced wastewater treatment systems, and oil/water separation.
- Environmental processes with focus on adsorption behavior and characterization.
- Chemical/Physical processes simulation and modeling.
- Sustainable and renewable energy systems and sustainable materials for infrastructure.
- Energy and materials recovery from waste and wastewater.
- Cross- disciplinary research between environmental, civil and material engineering.
- MS Studies: The effect of inorganic shocks (NaCl) on the efficiency of aerobic biological
treatment.
- MS Studies: Development of photocatalysts for the production on hydrogen from sunlight
and water.
- PhD Studies: Quantification of the adsorption capacity of air entraining additives
on fly ash to develop new standards and test procedures that can be used to assess
the usability of fly ash in concrete.
- Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Effects of cold weather on performance of transportation materials
- Geophysical methods applied to transportation problems
- Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Surface water quality engineering
Research Interests
- Limnology
- Engineering approaches to lake and river management
- Mathematical modeling of surface water quality
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Dam Decommissioning
- Environmental Engineering
- Hydraulic Structures
- River Mechanics
- Sediment Transport
- Stream Rehabilitation
- Sustainability
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Affiliated Associate Professor,
Biological Sciences
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Teaching Interests
- Water and wastewater treatment
- Biological treatment processes
Research Interests
- Bioremediation of Contaminated Groundwater Environments
- Microbial Ecology and Kinetics of Chlorinated Aliphatic Solvent Biodegradation
- Conversion of Organic Solid Wastes and Cellulosic Feedstocks to Electricity via Microbial
Fuel Cells
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Structural Reliability
- Probabilistic Analysis and Reliability in Civil Engineering
- Finite Element Analysis
- Advanced Timber Design
- Advanced Structural Analysis: Energy Methods and Structural Stability
- Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design
Research Interests
- Structural Reliability/Probabilistic Modeling
- Agent-Based Modeling
- Computational Intelligence Applications in Civil Engineering
- Philosophy of Engineering
- Wood Structures and Elements
- Structural Wood Engineering
- Load-Duration Behavior of Wood Members and Connections
- Director, Center for Science and Environmental Outreach
- Instructor, Cognitive and
Learning Sciences
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Areas of Expertise
- Great Lakes education and stewardship
- Watershed management ; stream monitoring
- Environmental education
- Elementary engineering and STEM education
- K-12 science education
- K-12 teacher professional development
- Communicating Science to a lay audience
- Director, Center for Training & Technology
- Staff, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Matrix structural analysis, Finite element analysis, Civil engineering materials and
Computational transportation materials
Research Interests
- Computational analysis for material research: multiscale modeling, finite element
analysis, discrete element analysis, multiphysical modeling, fracture simulation and
molecular dynamics
- Self-healing and accelerated healing of asphalt mixtures, micromechanical modeling
- Internal curing concrete, early-age properties and concrete durability
- Self-healing construction materials, alternative and sustainable infrastructure materials
- Active-material actuator design, wind-structure interaction, vibration reduction
- Acoustic and ultrasonic measurement, advanced X-ray and neutron scattering charaterization
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Civil Engineering Materials
- Statics
- Structural Analysis
- Structural Steel Design
- Senior Design
Research Interests
- Pavement Friction and Aggregate Polishing
- Blended Learning - Strategy and Technology
- Project-Based and Discovery-Based Learning
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Earthquake engineering
- Structural dynamics
- Steel design
- Reinforced concrete design
- Structural analysis
Research Interests
- Earthquake engineering
- Self-centering systems
- Resilient infrastructure
- Structural control
- Nonlinear response of steel structures due to extreme loadings
- Experimental testing using static, pseudo-dynamic, and dynamic methods
- Roland A. Mariucci Distinguished Practitioner in Residence
Rob Fritz
- Technical Lab Coordinator
- Chair, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
- Professor, Geological and Mining
Engineering and Sciences
- Affiliated Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Teaching Interests
- Hydrogeology
- Ground water Engineering
- Contaminant Transport
- Subsurface Remediation
Research Interests
- Field performance of air sparging for removing volatile organic chemicals from ground
water
- Volatile organic vapor transport in unsaturated soils
- Sulfur dioxide interactions with volcanic ash
- Associate Director, Center for Training & Technology
- Staff, Civil and Environmental
Engineering
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Development and application of physical and chemical processes for the recovery, removal,
or destruction of organic compounds from air and water streams in industrial processes
and the environment
- Research Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Civil
and Environmental Engineering
- Operations Manager/Senior Research Engineer, Sustainable
Futures Institute
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Research Interests
- Sustainable water and energy systems
- Life-cycle assessment
- Biofuels
- Aquaponics and hydroponics
- Sustainable manufacturing processes
- Nanoscale materials
- Iron chemistry
- Ecosystem Services
- Natural resource economics
Andrea Munoz Hernandez
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Pavements
- Construction Materials
- Transportation-related topics
Research Interests
- Pavement mechanics and the interaction between materials, analysis and performance
- Sustainable transportation infrastructure
- Associate Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Soil mechanics and foundational engineering, concentrating on deep foundations
- Behavior of mine tailings during deposition and consolidation
- Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Director, Center for Science
and Environmental Education
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Research Interests
- Groundwater contaminant transport
- Biological and physical processes for aquifer and soil restoration
- Risk assessments
- Management of household wastewaters
- Hazardous waste management
- Water distribution system analysis
Angela Keranen
- Administrative Aide
- Graduate Program Assistant
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Director, Rail Transportation
Program, Michigan Tech Transportation Institute
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- Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Public transportation planning and engineering
- Airport planning and design
- Railroad engineering
- Design-build contracting for large transportation projects
- Project management
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Affiliated Assistant Professor,
Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
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Teaching Interests
- Soil mechanics and labs
- Foundation engineering
- Numerical simulations (FEM, FDM)
- Other courses in classical mechanics
Research Interests
- Multiphysical phenomena: soil freezing, cement hydration, gas hydrate dissociation,
carbon sequestration, shale gas recovery, processes in geothermal practice
- Development and application of innovative sensor techniques
- Innovative characterization (acoustic, electromagnetic) and advanced mechanics of
porous materials (unsaturated soil mechanics, poromechanics)
- Climatic effects on infrastructure
- Numerical simulation techniques: Multiphysics and Multiscale, XFEM, SPH
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Charles and Patricia Nelson Presidential Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Groundwater flow and transport and subsurface remediation
Research Interests
- Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Contaminant Transport in Groundwater
Vadose Zones
- Mathematical Optimization of Groundwater Remediation Systems: Multi-Objective and
Uncertainty Problems
- Surfactant-Enhanced Dissolution of Nonaqueous Phase Liquids in Subsurface Systems
- Groundwater Flow in a Fault Zone in the Vicinity of Desert Hot Springs, California
- Simulation of Saltwater Intrusion in the Guaymas Valley, Sonora, Mexico California
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Affiliated Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry
- Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
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Teaching Interests
- Physical-Chemical Treatment Processes
- Environmental Process and Design
- Computational Environmental Engineering and Chemistry
Research Interests
- Sustainable water and wastewater treatment and management
- Development of assessing and predicting tools for water treatment technologies
- Innovative water and wastewater treatment technologies for energy saving and harvesting
- Systematic and integrated understanding of water and wastewater reuse
- Application of computational chemistry and molecular modeling
- Department, Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Professor, Civil and Environmental
Engineering
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Research Interests
- Water and Wastewater Treatment
- Water reclamation systems and Fate of personal products in treatment systems
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical
Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
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Research Interests
- Window Glass Strength Design
- Wind loads on Structures
- Finite Element Modeling of Brittle Materials
- Large Scale Data Processing and Data Mining
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Planning and decision making in infrastructure system management
- Develop models and implements simulations that can aid decision makers assess design
alternatives and explore what-if scenarios
- Senior Research Engineer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Rail Activities
- Railroad Crossing Research
Teaching Interests
- Railroad Engineering
- Rail Seminar
- Transportation Engineering
- Senior Design
- Associate Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
- Affiliated Associate
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Teaching Interests
- Computer Methods in Geomechanics
- Computational Geoscience
- Remote Sensing for Geotechniques
- Geostatistics and Data Analysis
- Engineering Geology and Geoinformatics
Research Interests
- Liquefaction susceptibility evaluation at local and regional scales using in-situ
measurements and remote sensing observations
- Estimating liquefaction induced damage such as lateral spread displacement
- Transportation Geotechniques
- Documenting earthquake induced damages, especially liquefaction using aerial/satellite
images that are sensitive to surficial moisture
- Geotechnical asset monitoring
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Environmental Engineering
- Transport & Transformation of Organic Chemicals
- Boundary Layer Meteorology
- Sustainability
Research Interests
- Air and Water Quality
- Atmosphere-biosphere Exchange of Chemicals
- Micrometeorology
- Environmental Analytical Chemistry
- Sustainability
David L. Perram
- Research Engr./Scientist II, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Adjunct Lecturer,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Laboratory Director
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- Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Timber
- Reinforced concrete
- Steel design
Research Interests
- Behavior of elastomeric sealants
- Behavior of structural glazing curtain wall systems
- Traditionally connected timber frames
- Molded wood strand composites
- Durability of pavement crank and joint sealments
Shelle Sandell
- Tech. Commun./Budget Coord.
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Affiliated Professor, Biological Sciences
Research Interests
- Environmental biotechnology, including in situ bioremediation of contaminated subsurface
environments, monitoring and evaluation of the performance of biological treatment
processes, development of in situ biological treatment systems for urban storm water
runoff, innovative reuse of waste materials, and in situ improvement of soils properties
via microbially-mediated processes.
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Transportation planning
- Traffic engineering,
- Airport planning and design
- Public transit
- Automated people movers
- Transportation planning for major activity centers
- Engineering education
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Affiliated Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Research Interests
- Application computationally efficient and robust embedded algorithms for monitoring
and protection of civil infrastructure assets such as buildings, bridges, pipelines,
wind turbines, roadways, and railroads.
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Environmental cycles of major and trace elements
- Sediment diagenesis and stratigraphy
- Chemistry of natural organic matter
- Wetland biogeochemistry
- Environmental impact and fate of pollutants
- Influence of organisms on the chemical environment
- Role of chemical environment in controlling populations
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Affiliated Professor, Geological
and Mining Engineering and Sciences
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Research Interests
- Mechanics of seismic signals generated from hydrodynamic phenomena such as the interaction
of tornadoes with the ground
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Water resources planning and management
- Environmental systems analysis
- Hydrologic and hydraulic engineering
- Optimization methods
- Learning through service
Research Interests
- Integrated water resources planning
- Use of seasonal hydroclimatic forecasts
- Climate change risk assessment
- Robust decision-making
- System dynamics modeling
Vernon Watwood
- Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Finite Element Modeling
- Equilibrium Finite Elements with present emphasis on 3D applications
- Force Method Procedures
- Mining Machinery Structural Analysis
- Associate Professor, Water Resources Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Probability and statistics
- Stochastic hydrology
- Numerical methods
- Water resources
- Risk analysis and management
Research Interests
- Water resources
- Uncertainty analysis
- Flood frequency and analysis of extreme events
- Impacts of climate and land use changes
Lloyd Wescoat
- Education Program Assistant & Service Learning
Christopher Wojick
- Senior Research Engineer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Faculty Advisor, Green
Campus Enterprise
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- Associate Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
- Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Research Interests
- Interactions among climate, atmospheric chemistry, air quality, and land use/land
cover
- Impacts of global change on atmospheric chemistry and long-range transport of air
pollution
- Anthropogenic perturbations to the atmosphere and implications for environmental sustainability
- Atmosphere-biosphere interactions, especially in the context of global change
- Impacts of aerosols on the global hydrological cycle
- Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Introductory Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Hydrodynamic Modeling
- Water Resources Engineering
- Ecosystem Dynamics Modeling
Research Interests
- Hydrodynamic modeling
- Coupled physical-biological modeling
- Dynamics of coupled ocean-atmosphere models
- Ocean data assimilation
- Estuary and coastal ocean circulation
- Bio-physical processes in the Great Lakes
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Structural Analysis
- Matrix Structural Analysis
- Structural Dynamics
Research Interests
- Smart Sensing Technology
- Structural Dynamics
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Post Disaster Response
- Smart City Resilience
- Utilizing commercial off-the-shelf technologies (ex. smartphones, cameras, and UAVs)
for civil engineering applications
- Professor, Transportation Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Pavement design and analysis
- Civil engineering materials
- Bituminous materials
- Sustainable pavement engineering
- Advanced asphalt materials
- Pavement mechanics
- Simulations and modeling of pavement materials
Research Interests
- Pavements and transportation materials
- Nano materials
- Modified asphalt
- Bio asphalt
- Recycled materials for civil engineering application
- Mechanical testing and constitutive modeling of asphalt binders and mixtures
- Micromechanics
- Finite element analysis
- Discrete element analysis
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Transportation Network Analysis
- Operations Research Models for Transportation and Logistics Systems
- Traffic Flow Theory
- Travel Demand Analysis
- Transportation Systems Operations and Control
- Transportation Planning
Research Interests
- Dynamic network equilibrium and optimization
- Modeling and simulation of large-scale complex systems
- Multimodal transportation systems analysis
- Freight transportation and logistics systems
- Data-driven travel behavior analysis
- Impact of plug-in electric vehicles to smart grid and transportation network systems
- Vehicle systems dynamics and fuel-efficient driving behavior
- Railway systems
