Research Programs by Faculty: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Table 1: Faculty who Advise Environmental Engineering Students at Michigan Tech

Name

Title

PhD/year

Areas of Expertise

Martin T. Auer

Professor

Univ. Michigan, 1979

Surface water quality modeling, algal ecology, fate and transport of chemicals in and to lakes, rivers

C. Robert Baillod

Professor

Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, 1968

Biological wastewater treatment, pollution prevention

Brian D. Barkdoll

Associate Professor

University of Iowa, 1997

Environmental Water Resources

Judith Wells Budd

Research Associate Professor, Geological Engineering Sciences

Michigan Tech, 1997

Visible and thermal infrared remote sensing, limnology, GIS

John S. Gierke

Associate Professor of Geological and Environmental Engineering

Michigan Tech, 1990

Fate and treatment of pollutants in soils

Sarah A. Green

Professor, Chemistry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 1992

Photochemical processes controlling fate of organic carbon and trace metals, remote sensing

David W. Hand

Professor

Michigan Tech, 1991

Physical and chemical treatment

Richard E. Honrath, Jr.

Professor

Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, 1991

Global and regional atmospheric impacts, photochemical formation of ozone in remote troposphere

Neil J. Hutzler

Professor

Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, 1978

Groundwater quality modeling, solid waste management, pollution prevention

Jiann-Yang Hwang

Director, Institute Materials Processing

Purdue Univ., 1982

characterization and beneficial use of waste, recycling of industrial materials

Donald R. Lueking

Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

Indiana Univ., 1973

Biochemistry, environmental biotechnology

Alex S. Mayer

Professor, Geological Engineering and Sciences

Univ. North Carolina, 1992

Flow and transport in porous media, numerical simulations of environmental systems

James R. Mihelcic

Professor

Carnegie Mellon, 1988

Biological processes, industrial ecology

Kurtis G. Paterson

Assistant Professor

Univ. Iowa, 1993

Atmospheric quality, global change, modeling atmospheric pollutant fate and transport

Judith A. Perlinger

Associate Professor

Swiss Federal Technical Institute, 1994

Environmental organic chemistry, reductive dehalogenation

Tony N. Rogers

Associate Professor, Chemical Engg.

Michigan Tech, 1994

environmental thermodynamics, physical property measurement and prediction

David R. Shonnard

Professor, Chemical Engg.

Univ. California, Davis, 1991

Pollution prevention, multimedia modeling of chemicals in the environment

Noel R. Urban

Professor

Univ. Minnesota, 1988

Biogeochemistry, chemistry of trace metals, wetlands

David W. Watkins

Associate Professorr

University Texas-Austin, 1997

Decision support systems for environmental and water resources engineering; geographic information systems.

Table 2. Faculty who Advise Civil Engineering Graduate Students

Name	Title	PhD/Year	Areas of Expertise
Tess M. Ahlborn	Associate Professor	University Minnesota, 1998	materials testing, reinforced concrete design, pre-stressed concrete
Bernie D. Alkire	Professor	Michigan State University, 1972	cold weather effects on transportation materials, geophysical methods applied to transportation problems
C. Robert Baillod	Professor	University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968	Wastewater treatment, biological processes
William M. Bulleit	Professor	Washington State University, 1980	structural analysis, timber design, reinforced concrete design, finite elements, structural reliability, and pre-stressed concrete
Qingli Dai	Research Assistant Professor (CEE & MEEM)	University of Rhode Island, 2004	geomechanics, computational mechanics, mechanics of materials, multiscale modeling, composite materials, civil engineering materials and structures,
George R. Dewey	Associate Professor	University of Kansas, 1991	civil engineering materials and reinforced concrete design
Ralph J. Hodek	Associate Professor	Purdue University, 1972	soil mechanics and foundational engineering
Linda Phillips	Lecturer		construction management, legal issues,motivation
Kris G. Mattila	Associate Professor	Purdue University, 1997	scheduling, linear scheduling, construction productivity, construction safety
Bogue L. Sandberg	Professor	Vanderbilt University, 1975	timber, reinforced concrete, and steel design
Sheryl A. Sorby	Professor	Michigan Technological University, 1991	spatial visualization, engineering education and outreach
William J. Sproule	Professor	Michigan State University, 1985	transportation planning, traffic engineering, airport planning and design, public transit
Lawrence L. Sutter	Associate Professor, School of Technology	Michigan Technological University, 2001	materials characterization of concrete and asphalt
Thomas J.Van Dam	Associate Professor	University of Illinois, 1995	pavement materials and design, concrete design
Stanley J. Vitton	Associate Professor	University of Michigan, 1991	applied geomechanics, mechanics of seismic signals
David W. Watkins	Associate Professor	University of Texas-Austin, 1997	water resources planning and management, graphical information systems
Zhanping You	Assistant Professor	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003	pavement materials and pavement design, asphalt materials design and analysis