Faculty
Areas of Specialization for Degree Programs | Research/Teaching Areas | |
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Structural & Earthquake Engineering |
Concrete structures: seismic design, high-rise buildings, shear design, evaluation and repair of structures. |
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Materials Engineering |
Materials engineering; concrete; advanced composite materials; shotcrete, fibre reinforcement, rebound mechanics, kinamatic studies, optimization; supplementary cementing materials in concrete. |
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Environmental Engineering |
Filtration/membrane processes for water/seawater treatment and resource recovery from wastewater; passive technologies for small/remote/decentralized systems; distribution system water quality assessment and modeling. |
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Transportation Engineering |
Active travel behaviour (walking and bicycling), micromobility and emerging human-electric hybrid vehicles (such as e-bikes), motor vehicle emissions and air quality, traffic management, and transport system and scenario modelling |
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Geotechnical Engineering |
Micromechanics of internal erosion; triaxial-permeability testing; shear wave velocity for the detection of fines loss in soils; internal erosion in earth dams; grain shape and the strength of sands; geosynthetics; debris flow travel distance on steep mountainous terrain; slope stability in engineering practice. |
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Structural & Earthquake Engineering |
Probabilistic mechanics, structural reliability and optimization, timber engineering, earthquake engineering, decision making, risk, advanced structural analysis, finite elements, response sensitivity analysis, software development. |
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Hydrotechnical Engineering |
Coastal and offshore hydrodynamics, with a particular emphasis on ocean waves and their effects on structures. |
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Structural & Earthquake Engineering, Materials Engineering |
Lightweight structures, Marine structures, Finite element analysis, Ultimate strength, Fatigue strength, Structural optimization, Structural longevity |
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Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Hydrotechnical Engineering |
Field and 3D numerical modeling techniques to describe the spatial and temporal variations of physical processes and their impacts on transport in lakes and coastal waters. |
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Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Hydrotechnical Engineering |
Environmental fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrodynamic stability and mixing, physical limnology, water quality management. |
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Environmental Engineering |
Membranes, Water/Wastewater Treatment, Desalination, Resource Harvesting, Nanoporous Media, Electrokinetics |
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Hydrotechnical Engineering |
Optimizing design and operational strategies of water resources projects; identifying reliable water quality management systems for natural and built environments in the face of uncertainty; adapting to climate change. |
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Environmental Engineering |
Pollution control, Water-soil/sediment treatment, Environmental assessment and management, Contaminant fate and transport, Emerging contaminants, Sustainable remediation technology, Landfill and leachate management, Industrial wastewater treatment, Water pipe corrosion control, Sludge management, Waste-to-resources processes. |
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Structural & Earthquake Engineering |
Earthquake engineering, performance-based seismic design, seismic resilience, risk analysis, high-rise buildings, innovative structural systems. |
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Geotechnical Engineering |
Ground improvement methods, specially GI by Dynamic Compaction; application of high speed photography in geotechnical research; geotechnical physical modelling |
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Susan Nesbit Professor of Teaching; Co-Director of the Masters of Engineering Leadership in Urban Systems nesbit@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.8703 |
Engineering and Sustainability, Other |
Transdisciplinary education; Curricula design and assessment; Beliefs and attitude development in engineering education |
Transportation Engineering |
Full Bayes safety models, Automated safety analysis using computer vision techniques, Safety evaluations, Traffic conflicts techniques, Pedestrian modeling, and ITS. |
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Hydrotechnical Engineering |
Modeling and optimization of large-scale civil engineering systems; planning, design and operation of hydroelectric generating facilities; use of decision, policy and risk analysis techniques in water resource planning and management; use of artificial intelligence systems in water resource and hydroelectric systems. |
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Project & Construction Management |
Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Building Information Modeling (BIM), collaboration and integrated project delivery, design and construction coordination, 4D (3D + time) visualization, interactive workspaces |
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Transportation Engineering, Project & Construction Management |
Asset Management, Life Cycle Modeling, Optimization Methods, Real Options, Reinforcement Learning, Risk Analysis, Sequential Decision-Making, Stochastic Modeling, Sustainable Infrastructure Management, Time-Series Methods, Uncertainty Estimation and Propagation. |
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Geotechnical Engineering, Structural & Earthquake Engineering |
Theoretical and computational geomechanics, constitutive modeling of engineering materials, physics and mechanics of granular materials, geotechnical earthquake engineering, static and dynamic soil-structure interaction. |
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Structural & Earthquake Engineering, Materials Engineering |
Finite element analysis; Mechanics of composite materials; Constitutive modeling of engineering materials, Plasticity, Damage mechanics; Process modeling of composite structures; Analysis of impact and blast loading of metallic and composite structures. |
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Structural & Earthquake Engineering |
Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, full scale vibration testing, shake table testing. Seismic risk evaluation and hazard management studies. Investigation of earthquake effects on man-made structures. |
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Hydrotechnical Engineering |
Water Resources Management, Mountain Hydrology, Catchment Hydrology, Flood Forecasting, Uncertainty, Information Theory, Control of Water Systems |
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Geotechnical Engineering |
Response of soils under earthquake loading with particular emphasis on liquefaction of silts; Advanced Soil Pipe Interaction Research (ASPIReTM) program with physical modeling to solve pipeline engineering problems; and advanced laboratory geomaterial characterization research to solve earthquake geotechnical engineering problems. |
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Engineering Communication, Other |
Classroom culture in engineering communication and the development of post-secondary curriculum with a special focus on facilitation, collaboration, and decolonization. |
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Structural & Earthquake Engineering |
Seismic behavior and design of steel, concrete and composite structures, seismic behavior and design of tall buildings, develop performance-based evaluation methodology and code design procedures for new and existing structures, using innovative structural component and systems to improve structural performance, including the use of innovative active, semi-active and passive energy dissipation systems, develop accurate and cost effective experimental methods to analyze structural response under extreme loading conditions. |
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Hydrotechnical Engineering |
IR-NDT technologies, Turbulent Fluid Mechanics, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Ecological Fluid Mechanics, Waste water treatment. |
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Materials Engineering |
Infrastructure repair and durability, sustainable construction materials, alternative cementitious materials, durability of concrete structures, historical heritage structures, concrete-concrete bond, numerical analysis of reinforced concrete structures, early-age thermal cracking, fiber reinforced concrete. |
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Environmental Engineering |
Sustainable biological wastewater treatment, resource recovery, microbial ecology, multi-omics, anaerobic digestion, biological nutrient removal, microbial biotechnology. |
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Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Sustainability |
Civil Engineering Impacts: sustainability, engineering leadership, entrepreneurship
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Environmental Engineering |
Environmental chemistry, trace contaminants, water reuse, nature-based treatment systems, stormwater treatment |