Faculty
Laura Sullivan-Green
Professor and Department Chair, Geotechnical Engineering
408-924-3906
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ENGR 147
Research Interests: Geotechnical Engineering, Forensic Engineering Education and Dissemination, STEM Education and Faculty Development
Akthem Al-Manaseer
Professor, Structural and Materials Engineering
408-924-3860
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ENGR 167
Research Interests: High Performance Concrete, Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete, Nondestructive Testing of Concrete Bridges, Sustainable Concrete with Plastics Aggregates, Deep Beams Design with FRP
Kurt M. McMullin
Professor, Structural Engineering
408-924-3855
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ENGR 171
Research Interests: Structural — The response of steel, concrete, and timber structures to earthquakes and other catastrophic events.
Steven M Vukazich
Professor, Structural Engineering
408-924-3858
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ENGR 165
Research Interests: Reduced order dynamic modeling and computer visualization applied to engineering practice and education.
Udeme J. Ndon
Professor, Environmental Engineering
408-924-3863
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ENGR 151
Research Interests: Environmental biotechnology, especially biological treatment of wastes and wastewater, biological nutrient removal from wastewater, process kinetics and bioreactor design, biotransformation of hazardous compounds.
Indu Jeyachandran
Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, GIS Engineering
408-924-3824
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ENGR 157
Research Interests: Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Planning using Remote Sensing, GIS, Modeling and Observation Techniques, Urban Systems Sustainability, Water Stress Analysis
Jae-Ho Pyeon
Associate Professor, Construction Engineering
408-924-3853
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ENGR 159
Research Interests: Construction Engineering — Alternative Contracting Methods, Project Delivery Systems, Project Performance Evaluation, Productivity, Project Risk Management, and Innovative Construction Techniques
Olivia Yip
Assistant Professor, Water Resources Engineering
408-924-3932
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ENGR 153
Research Interests: Environmental fluid mechanics, estuarine physics, Python for large data analysis and scientific communication, climate adaptation, extreme weather events
Ali Mehran
Assistant Professor
408-924-3953
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ENGR 155
Research Interests: Hydrological analysis of natural extremes, individual and compounding statistical analysis of extremes, drought impact, climate change, remote sensing (satellite and UAS), geospatial design (mitigation and adaptation planning), atmospheric rivers, floods, machine learning and environmental remote sensing, autonomous remote sensing with drones.
Sravani Vadlamani
Assistant Professor
408-924-4202
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ENGR 169
Research Interests: Transportation engineering, travel demand modeling, transportation safety, statistical and econometric modeling, GIS, Application of Machine Learning and Data Mining in Transportation
Joseph Coe
Assistant Professor
408-924-3854
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ENGR 161
Research Interests: Engineering Geophysics for Geotechnical Site Characterization, Nondestructive Testing, Geologic Hazards (Sinkholes, Liquefaction, Seismic Site Effects), Spatial Analysis and Geostatistics, Machine Learning for Geotechnical and Engineering Geology Applications, Remote Sensing
