Department of Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering (CGEE)

Srijan Aggarwal

Srijan Aggarwal

Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering | Water Environmental Research Center

JUB 360

Research Interests:

  • environmental engineering
  • water and wastewater treatment systems
  • biofilm mechanical properties and processes 
  • chemical herders for oil spill response
  • air quality

Il-Sang Ahn

Il-Sang Ahn

Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Duck 265

Research Interests:

  • dynamic ratchetting in elastic-plastic materials
  • application of nonlinear dynamics to earthquake engineering
  • civil applications of Tire Derived Aggregate (TDA)
  • long-term characteristics of concrete at cold temperatures
  • thermo-mechanical behavior of lunar regolith under temperature cycling

Nathan Belz

Nathan Belz

Associate Professor | Department Chair

Civil and Environmental Engineering | Arctic Infrastructure Development Center

JUB 128

Research Interests:

  • driver behavior and traffic safety and operations
  • roundabouts
  • developing transportation solutions for rural areas
  • applications of GIS in civil engineering

Margaret Darrow

Margaret Darrow

Professor

Geological Engineering

JUB 364

Research Interests:

  • behavior of unfrozen water in frozen soils
  • frost heaving
  • soil physics
  • slope stability in frozen ground
  • thermal analysis of engineered structures over frozen ground

Nima Farzadnia

Nima Farzadnia

Assistant Professor

Civil Engineering

JUB 132

Research Interests:

  • sustainable construction materials and technologies: alternative binders; supplementary cementitious materials; CO2 sequestration systems
  • smart infrastructure materials and systems: nanotechnology; responsive/adaptive polymers
  • automation in construction: additive and robotic construction; multi-sensory inspection; big data and cloud computing

Shishay Kidanu

Shishay Kidanu

Assistant Professor

Geological Engineering

Duck 269

Research Interests:

  •  engineering and environmental geophysics
  •  geophysics for mineral exploration
  •  GIS and remote sensing applications in geohazard analysis
  •  GIS-based multivariate geospatial analysis

Debu Misra

Debu Misra

Professor

Geological Engineering

Duck 251

Research Interests:

  • geohydrology and geoenvironmental engineering;
  • ground water mechanics
  • multiphase flow and transport in porous media
  • reservoir characterization
  • geostatistical analysis and inverse modeling
  • GIS application in engineering analysis
  • remote sensing
  • thermodynamics and heat transfer in porous media flow and transport

Wilhelm Muench

Adjunct Instructor | Civil and Environmental Engineering

JUB 118

Courses:

  • surveying
  • statics
  • dynamics
  • steel bridge

Jill Riddle

Jill Riddle

Office Manager

Department of Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering | Department of Mining and Mineral Engineering

Svetlana Stuefer

Svetlana Stuefer

Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering | Water Environmental Research Center

JUB 362

Research Interests:

  • cold region hydrology and water resources
  • field measurements and modeling
  • seasonal snow cover and ice
  • streamflow
  • precipitation

Horacio Toniolo

Horacio Toniolo

Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering | Water Environmental Research Center

Duck 259

Research Interests:

  • sediment transport in rivers
  • hydrology and hydraulics in cold regions
  • river morphology
  • reservoir sedimentation
  • water use in cold regions
  • turbidity currents


Emeriti
Scott Huang

Scott Huang

Professor Emeritus, Geological Engineering

Leroy Hulsey

Leroy Hulsey

Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering

Research Interests:

  • bridge engineering
  • effects of temperature extremes on structural systems

Douglas Kane

Douglas Kane

Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering

Research Interests:

  • groundwater hydrology
  • snow hydrology, hydraulics
  • water resources engineering
  • cold regions hydrology
  • fish hydraulics
  • heat transfer
  • climate change

Paul Metz

Paul Metz

Professor Emeritus, Geological Engineering

Robert Perkins

Robert Perkins

Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

  • oil spill-related engineering and ecological risk analysis
  • toxicity of chemicals to marine species
  • risk assessments, human health, and ecological effects in extreme environments
  • risk communications and public acceptance of environmental and engineering projects
  • practical project management and training
  • transportation safety data

Yuri Shur

Yuri Shur

Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering

Research Interests:

  • permafrost and ground ice
  • permafrost related hazards
  • thermal interaction of structures with permafrost
  • design alternatives for buildings and pipelines in permafrost region