CEE Research Areas
Research is conducted in 4 different areas in CEE:
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering
Structural Engineering
Transportation Engineering
Some of the research topics in these areas are shown below:
AREA |
TOPICS |
Structural |
- Static and dynamic (seismic) testing and analysis of structures, structural components and equipment
- Earthquake vulnerability of buildings in urban areas and seismic retrofit
- Creep response of fibrous composite materials, non-linear behavior of composite plates
- High performance steel and fiber reinforced composites for bridge and building structural systems
- Large-scale and shake table testing
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Environmental/
Water Resources |
- Surface water hydrodynamic and water quality modeling (CE-QUAL-W2)
- Urban stormwater particulate removal
- Solid-Liquid separation
- Groundwater contaminant transport and remediation
- Fate and transport of toxics
- Groundwater transport modeling
- Hydrodynamic processes and ecosystems
- Estuarine circulation
- Sediment transport
- Physical processes in the Columbia River
- Impacts of the Peace Conduit on the Dead Sea
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Transportation |
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Transportation data archiving/mining
- Transportation/Land use modeling
- Land use and access relationships
- Transportation safety and security
- Multi-model traveler information
- Traffic flow theory and operations using real time data
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Geotechnical |
- Slope stability
- In-situ soil testing and analysis
- Deep foundations under lateral load
- Computer design in foundation engineering
- Soil/Structure interaction
- Digital engineering education
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