Department of Civil Engineering

  • Mahdi Taiebat, P.Eng.

    Mahdi Taiebat, P.Eng.

    Professor

    • Theoretical and computational geomechanics
    • constitutive modeling of engineering materials
    • physics and mechanics of granular materials
    • geotechnical earthquake engineering
    • static and dynamic soil-structure interaction
  • Jongho Lee, PhD

    Jongho Lee, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    • membranes
    • desalination
    • resource recovery
    • waste-to-resource
    • energy conversion
    • biofuel
    • zero liquid discharge

  • Dr. Omar Swei

    Assistant Professor

    • Improving the design and maintenance of infrastructure systems
  • Dr. Ryan Ziels, PhD

    Dr. Ryan Ziels, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    • Sustainable biological wastewater treatment
    • resource recovery
    • microbial ecology
    • multi-omics
    • anaerobic digestion
    • biological nutrient removal
    • microbial biotechnology

  • Dr. Jonathan Fannin, PhD, PEng

    Professor

    • Internal erosion
    • geosynthetics
    • debris flow travel distance on steep mountainous terrain
    • slope stability in engineering practice
  • Mr. Amir Hassanpour, MSc in Transportation Engineering

    Mr. Amir Hassanpour, MSc in Transportation Engineering

    Ph.D. Student

    • Transportation
    • sustainable transportation
    • active transportation
    • cycling
    • micromobility
    • shared mobility

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