Research at Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering
at UCF

 

 

Structural Engineering:

Structural health monitoring, Smart technologies for civil infrastructure systems, Life cycle assessment and decision making, Non-parametric modeling of civil infrastructure systems, Reliability-based simulation, Performance-based assessment of bridges and buildings to extreme events – earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.

 

Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering:

Seepage through soils, Permeable pavements, System identification using inverse analyses, Environmental geotechnics, Biomimetic design of civil infrastructure systems.

 

Construction Engineering:

Advanced information collection and processing techniques, Resource planning and management in construction and manufacturing operations, Improved resource utilization and increased productivity, Operational uncertainties and dynamics.

 

Transportation Engineering:

Pricing congestion on roads in metropolitan areas, Transportation safety, Technology deployment for origin-destination studies, Transportation Systems Simulation.

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Water Resources Engineering:

Coastal hydroscience analysis, modeling, and predictive simulations, Hurricane storm surge modeling, Application of high-resolution satellite imagery to improve coastal and estuarine models, Soil erosion simulation, Non-point source pollution, Sediment transport and watershed management, Green engineering, Impact assessments of Global Climate Change.

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Environmental Engineering:

Water treatment processes and post-treatment stabilization of desalted permeate water, Air pollution – emissions inventories and reductions, dispersion modeling, Bioreactor landfills, waste to energy, cover systems for control of landfill odors, Wastewater treatment and bacterial concentrations in drinking water distribution systems.

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