Faculty and Staff

The University of Pittsburgh Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's well-rounded faculty is composed of individuals with diverse backgrounds and expertise. Our faculty includes research and education leaders, as well as professionals currently practicing in the field of civil engineering.

In addition, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering staff members are highly trained and interested in the success of our students.

Full-time Faculty	Research Interests
Melissa Bilec	Sustainability, Green Design, Construction, Life Cycle Assessment
Daniel Budny, PE	Engineering Education, Fluid Mechanics.
John Brigham	Computational Inverse Characterization, Nonlinear Optimization, Computational Mechanics and Biomechanics.
Leonard W. Casson, PE	Physical/Chemical Processes/Disinfection, Infrastructure Security and Sustainability.
Willie F. Harper, Jr., PE	Biological Processes, Emerging Contaminants, Nutrient Removal.
Kent A. Harries, FACI, P.Eng.	Performance-Based Design and Retrofit of Structures, Advanced Materials (FRP, etc.), Large-scale Testing.
Amir Koubaa	Durability of Concrete, Testing and Analysis of Concrete Pavement, Materials of Construction.
Amy E. Landis	Sustainable Engineering, Life Cycle Assessment, Industrial Ecology, Bioenergy.
Xu Liang	Hydrological Modeling, Scaling and Data Assimilation, Hydrometeorology, Sensor Network, Hydroinformatics.
Jeen-Shang Lin, PE	Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Geo and Computational Mechanics, Failure Percolation.
Joe Marriott	Energy and electricity, life-cycle assessment, sustainability.
Jason Monnell	Acid Rock Drainage, Environmental Remediation, Chemical Self-assembly, H2S and Hg Adsorption.
Ronald D. Neufeld, PE	Biological & physical/chemical water-wastewater treatment processes; industrial & hazardous wastes.
Rafael Quimpo, PE	Watershed Modeling, Environmental Hydrology, GIS Applications in Water Resources Engineering
Piervincenzo Rizzo	Ultrasonic Testing, Nondestructive Testing, Structural Health Monitoring, Digital Signal Processing, Statistical Pattern Recognition.
Janet Stout	Waterborne Pathogens, Legionella Pneumophila, Molecular Typing, Biofilm Formation, Disinfection.
Albert To	Computational Nano and Micromechanics, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, and Acoustic Emission Techniques.
Morteza Torkamani, PE	Linear/nonlinear Computational Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, Wind and Earthquake Engineering.
Luis E. Vallejo	Soil and Rock Slope Stability, Geotechnical Fracture Mechanics, Geotechnical Application of Fractals, Numerical Methods.
Julie M. Vandenbossche, PE	Concrete Material Characterization, Concrete Pavement Design and Analysis, Instrumentation.
Radisav D. Vidic, Chairman, PE	Physical/Chemical Processes, Adsorption/Catalysis, Mercury control, Disinfection, Water reuse.

Emeritus Faculty Joel Abrams A. Graham R. Bullen Chao-Lin Chiu John Flemming Karl H. Lewis Clark Manglesdorf Fred Moses, PE Attila A. Sooky

Adjunct Faculty Joseph R. Beck, PE George Bonnar George H. Craig Keith Johnson, PE Kurt G. Karanovich, PE D Christian Keelor, PE Mark Magalotti, PE Kenneth Marino, PE John F. Oyler, PE Mike Rollage Wen Daniel Su Timothy R. Taylor James Vitale, PE

Staff

Mary Ann Ebitz Graduate Secretary 949 Benedum Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (412) 624-9867 Sonia Suhy Administrative Assistant 947 Benedum Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (412) 624-9864

Michele M. Tschannen Undergraduate Secretary 946 Benedum Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (412) 624-9870

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