Research

The CEE Department focuses its research efforts on three Thrust Areas:

1. Resilient Infrastructure Systems

2. Sustainable Environment Systems

3. Intelligent Transportation Systems

Nearly $8 million in research grants conducted for a number of public and private sponsors are active or recently completed. Research in the CEE department can be grouped into the following focus areas:

Transportation

This group has a carved out a strong research ‘niche’ in the areas of traffic analysis, safety issues, and regional transportation planning with a special strength in computer simulation and modeling. Projects are also underway in the area of transportation security and disaster routing.  

Researchers: Chien, Daniel, Lee, Liu, and Spasovic
Sponsors: USDOT, FHWA, NJDOT, NJ Transit, and Greyhound

Environmental

CEE faculty conduct research on a wide variety of environmental topics including surface chemistry, environmental systems modeling, water and wastewater treatment, site remediation, environmental impact analysis and context sensitive design. 

Researchers: Axe, Boufadel, Ding, Dresnack, Marhaba, Meegoda, Olenik, Schuring, and Zhang.
Sponsors: USEPA, NSF, USDOA, US Army Corps of Engineering, USDoD, USDoE, AWWARF, NJDEP, and DuPont

Infrastructure/Materials

This group focuses on research to improve infrastructure materials and design methods including very early strength concrete, bridge structures, pipeline corrosion, and noise walls as well as structural modeling for seismic retrofitting and structural hardening.

Researchers: Adams, Bandelt, Karaa, Konon, Meegoda, Saadeghvaziri, Saigal, and Wecharatana
Sponsors: NSF, NJDOT, UMDMJ, Sika Corporation, and PRM Engineering

Geospatial

Our Geospatial faculty are active in the areas of Geomatics and GIS applications in transportation systems, as well as remote sensing for environmental analysis.

Researchers: Chien
Sponsors: NASA, NOAA, and NJDOT