Civil Engineering & Mechanics

Civil Engineering is a strongly people-oriented profession that deals with the infrastructure of a society. Civil engineers design bridges, buildings, and other structures; develop water supply and sewerage systems; plan and design highway and transportation systems; and design foundations, earth and rock structures, and tunnels. The opportunity exists for professional employment with industry, utilities, consulting firms, contractors, and local, state, and federal government agencies.

BRAVO, Hector. Office: EMS 955 Phone: (414) 229-6756

Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Iowa

Areas of Research: Computational and Experimental Hydraulics, Environmental Dispersion Processes, Hydraulic Structures, Surface Hydrology

CHRISTENSEN, Erik R. Office: EMS W441 Phone: (414) 229-4968

Professor; Ph.D., University of California-Irvine; P.E.

Areas of Research: Multiple Toxicity to Algal Growth, Radiometric Dating, Aquatic Pollutants, Membrane Separation Processes

GHORBANPOOR, Al, Office: EMS 560/562 Phone: (414) 229-4962

Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland; P.E.

Areas of Research: Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation, Design of Buildings and Bridges

HELWANY, Sam. Office: EMS 919 Phone: (414) 229-4131

Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder

Areas of Research: Geotechnical Engineering, Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Structures, Soil Structure Interaction, Finite Element Analysis

HOROWITZ, Alan J. Office: EMS E340 Phone: (414) 229-6685

Professor; Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles; A.I.C.P., P.E.

Areas of Research: Social and Environmental Impacts of Transportation Development, Travel Forecasting, and Transportation Planning

LI, Jin, Office:EMS E321, Phone (414) 229-6891

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati

Areas of Research: Environmental Engineering, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Microbial Biofilm, Hazardous Waste Management.

Liao, Qian. Office: EMS 819 Phone: (414) 229-4228

Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Cornell University.

Areas of Research: Environmental Fluid Mechanics; Quantitative Imaging Based Flow Measurement Techniques; Turbulent Dispersion and Mixing; Fate and Transport of Chemical and Biological Constituents in Environmental Flows; Lake Circulation and Dynamics; Sediment Transport; Numerical Simulation of Environmental Flows.

NAIK, Tarun R. Office: EMS W440 Phone: (414) 229-6696

Associate Professor and Director of the UWM Center for By-Products Utilization; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; P.E.

Areas of Research: Use of Industrial and Post-Consumer By-Products and Reusing, Recycling, and Minimization; Construction Materials Testing and Evaluation; Concrete and Timber Design and Testing; Evaluation of Structures and Forensic Engineering; and Design of Electric Transmission Line Structures and Foundations

PAPADOPOULOS, Chris, Office EMS 939, Phone: (414) 229-3953

Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, Ithaca, New York

Areas of Research: Numerical Computation in Nonlinear Elasticity and Structural Mechanics; Symmetry-adapted Algorithms, Bifurcation Analysis; Large Deformations of Trusses and Shells; Rod Theories and Hemitrophic Elasticity

RAHMAN, Adeeb, Office:EMS 907, Phone (414) 229-2860

Assocaite Professor, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison

Areas of Research: Enineering Mechanics, Biomechanics, Finite Element Analysis, Composite and Computational Mechanics, Modeling of Orthopedic Implants

TABATABAI, Habib , Office: EMS E340 Phone: (414) 229-5166

Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville; P.E.

Areas of Research: Bridges, Stay Cables and Cable-Stayed Bridges, Damage Detection in Structures, Structural Modeling, Load Testing, Field Instrumentation and Monitoring, Failure Investigations.

TITI, Hani, Office:EMS 1139, Phone (414) 229-6893

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Louisana State University

Areas of Research: Geotechnical Engineering, Pavement Design, Finite Element Analysis, Constitutive Modeling of Geo Materials, Advanced Labortory tests of Geomaterials, Site Characterization, Behavior of Deep Foundations.

ZHAO, Jian, Office:EMS E309, Phone (414) 229-2330

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Areas of Research: Earthquake Engineering, Behavior and Seismic Design of Concrete Structures, Structural Modeling, Real-time Dynamic Testing, Advanced Energy-Dissipation Materials and Applications.