Research
The versatile CEE Faculty and Staff conduct theoretical and applied research addressing many contemporary problems of technology and society.
Research
The CEE Department focuses its research efforts on three Thrust Areas:
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Resilient Infrastructure Systems
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Sustainable Environment Systems
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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, Hsieh, 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.