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Udaya B. Halabe

Udaya B. Halabe
Teaching Professor
Research Interests
Nondestructive Testing of Structures and Materials using Infrared Thermography, Ground Penetrating Radar, Ultrasound & Digital Tap Testing
[email protected]
480-965-6361
CAVC 476
Tempe campus
Morteza Abbaszadegan
Morteza Abbaszadegan
Professor
Research Interests
Contemporary water quality issues concerning health-related water microbiology
[email protected]
480-965-3868
ISTB4 373
Tempe campus
Braden Allenby
Braden Allenby
Professor, President’s Professor, and Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Technology
Research Interests
Sustainable engineering, earth systems engineering and management, industrial ecology, emerging technology (especially military and security technologies), weaponized narrative and identity
Absar Alum
Absar Alum
Assistant Research Professor
Research Interests
Health related environmental microbiology, microbial pathogen survival and detection
[email protected]
480-965-6268
ISTB4 395C
Tempe campus
Samuel Ariaratnam
Samuel Ariaratnam
Professor, Undergraduate/Graduate Program Chair for Construction Engineering
Research Interests
Sustainable urban underground infrastructure systems, trenchless engineering and construction methods, underground asset management, performance modeling
[email protected]
480-965-7399
CAVC 480
Tempe campus
Mounir El Asmar
Mounir El Asmar
Associate Professor and Co-director, EPA National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations
Research Interests
Sustainable building performance, integrated project delivery (IPD), cost engineering
[email protected]
480-727-9023
CAVC 576
Tempe campus
Steven Ayer
Steven Ayer
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Building information modeling (BIM), mixed (and “augmented”) reality, virtual reality, cyber-learning, engineering education
[email protected]
480-727-4579
CAVC 564
Tempe campus
Wylie Bearup
Wylie Bearup
Faculty Associate
Research Interests
Construction project delivery methods, Virtual Design and Construction, Design-construction interface, Construction contracting and procurement methods, Partnering and dispute resolution processes
[email protected]
Tempe campus
Treavor H. Boyer
Treavor Boyer
Professor, Undergraduate/Graduate Program Chair for Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
Drinking water and wastewater treatment, urine source separation, nutrient management and resource recovery
[email protected]
480-965-7447
ISTB4 361
Tempe campus
Mikhail Chester
Mikhail Chester
Professor and Director of the Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering
Research Interests
Infrastructure resilience and sustainability, climate change and extreme events, interdependent infrastructure systems, transportation life cycle assessment, infrastructure complexity and adaptation
[email protected]
480-965-9779
CAVC 527A
Tempe campus
Oswald Chong
Oswald Chong
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Sustainable design and project planning, eco-efficiency and technical metabolism, sustainable engineering knowledge system & clusters
Aaron Cohen
Aaron Cohen
Faculty Associate
Research Interests
Heavy construction equipment, methods and materials
[email protected]
Tempe campus
Otakuye Conroy-Ben
Otakuye Conroy-Ben
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Antibiotic and metal resistance in bacteria, environmental endocrine disruption, wastewater epidemiology, solid waste management, bacterial gene expression, bioremediation of petroleum contaminated water and soil, wastewater reuse, boron stable isotopes, proteoliposomes for water treatment
[email protected]
480-727-4514
ISTB4 363
Tempe campus
Thomas Czerniawski
Thomas Czerniawski
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Computer vision and digital modeling of the built environment
[email protected]
480-727-8105
CAVC 578
Tempe campus
Paul Dahlen
Paul Dahlen
Assistant Professor of Research
Research Interests
Impacts to groundwater resources from leaking underground storage tanks, Oxygen injection technologies for in-situ permeable reactive barriers
[email protected]
480-727-2960
ISTB4 L1-09
Tempe campus
Wanda Dalla Costa

Wanda Dalla Costa
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Indigenous placekeeping (urban and rural), Indigenous design engagement, climate resiliency & passive design in architecture, bioclimate principles derived from regional Indigenous architectural precedents.
[email protected]
(480) 727-2433
Tempe campus
Anca Delgado
Anca Delgado
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Soil and groundwater microbial processes; Microbial chain elongation; Bioremediation of halogenated compounds, petroleum hydrocarbons, and heavy metals; Conversion of biomass to biochemicals; Microbial kinetics; Bioreactors for environmental biotechnology; Analytical chemistry in environmental engineering
[email protected]
480-727-0046
BIA 214B
Tempe campus
James Ernzen
James Ernzen
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Alternate project delivery methods, project management and safety, reinforced concrete design
[email protected]
480-965-0389
CAVC 566
Tempe campus
Elham (Ellie) Fini
Elham (Ellie) Fini
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Sustainable Construction, Bio-based and Bio-inspired Materials, Adhesives and Sealants for Use in Construction, Multi-scale Characterization and Modeling, Surface and Interface Characterization
Peter Fox
Peter Fox
Professor
Research Interests
Water reuse, biological treatment, salinity/brine disposal
[email protected]
480-965-1734
ISTB4 365
Tempe campus
Matthew Fraser
Matthew Fraser
Professor, Associate Director
Research Interests
Air quality, air pollution, energy conservation, energy efficiency technologies
[email protected]
480-965-3489
CAVC 402
Tempe campus
Margaret Garcia
Margaret Garcia
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Water resources engineering, infrastructure sustainability, and resilience, couple human and natural systems, numerical modeling.
[email protected]
ISTB7 414
Tempe campus
480-965-8838
G. Edward Gibson, Jr.
G. Edward Gibson, Jr.
Professor and Sunstate Chair of Construction Management and Engineering
Research Interests
Front end planning, risk management, safety, alternative project delivery, leadership
David Grau
David Grau
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Systems engineering, uncertainty and risk, automation, computing, and remote sensing, lean philosophy and processes, construction productivity
[email protected]
480-727-0665
CAVC 574
Tempe campus
Rolf Halden
Rolf Halden
Professor and Director of the Center for Environmental Health Engineering
Research Interests
Public health engineering, sustainable cities, urban water cycle, green chemistry and engineering, urban metabolism & exposure assessment
[email protected]
480-727-0893
ISTB4 481
Tempe campus
Kerry Hamilton
Kerry Hamilton
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Risk assessment, decision analysis, environmental microbiology, modeling & data analysis
[email protected]
BDB 240A
Tempe campus
480-727-9393
Keith Hjelmstad
Keith Hjelmstad
President’s Professor, Undergraduate Program Chair for Civil Engineering
Research Interests
Computational mechanics, structural engineering, structural stability, simulation of complex systems
[email protected]
480-316-0850
CAVC 408
Tempe Campus
Christian G. Hoover
Christian Hoover
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Structural and solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, multi-scale material characterization, materials and structural testing
[email protected]
480-965-2693
ISTB2 219B
Tempe Campus
William Houston
William (Bill) Houston
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
Geotechnical engineering
Kristen Hurtado
Kristen Hurtado
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests
Project planning and risk management, Construction education and training, Construction industry analytics, Project management, Facility management
Kamil Kaloush
Kamil Kaloush
FORTA Professor
Research Interests
Pavements, materials, design and evaluation, management, urban heat island
[email protected]
480-965-5509
ISTB2 229D
Tempe campus
Edward Kavazanjian, Jr.
Edward Kavazanjian, Jr.
Regents Professor and Director of Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics
Research Interests
Biogeotechnical engineering, ground improvement, geotechnical earthquake engineering, waste containment system design, mechanical properties of municipal solid waste
[email protected]
480-727-8566
GWC 112B
Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics
Tempe campus
Hamed Khodadadi Tirkolaei
Hamed Khodadadi Tirkolaei
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Sustainable Geotechnics, Interdisciplinary Geotechnics, Biogeotechnical Engineering
[email protected]
480-559-9253
Goldwater Science and Engineering Center, Room 116
Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics, Tempe Campus
Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
Professor
Research Interests
Bio-degradation of toxic compounds, intestinal microbial ecology-obesity, intestinal microbial ecology-autism, bio-energy, bio-prospecting/microbial metabolic exploration
[email protected]
480-727-7574
BDA 210
Tempe campus
Barry T Kutz
Barry Kutz
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests
Preconstruction delivery
[email protected]
480-965-6628
CAVC 468
Tempe campus
Klaus Lackner
Klaus Lackner
Professor
Research Interests
Closing the carbon cycle by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, carbon sequestration, carbon foot-printing, innovative energy and infrastructure systems and their scaling properties
[email protected]
480-727-2499
BDC 141C
Tempe campus
Anthony J. Lamanna

Anthony J. Lamanna
Associate Professor, Sundt Professor of Alternative Delivery Methods and Sustainable Development, Undergraduate/Graduate Program Chair for Construction Management
Research Interests
Anchorage to concrete, Sustainable development, Strengthening, repair, retrofit, and adaptive reuse of existing structures.
Peter Lammers
Peter Lammers
Research Professor
Research Interests
Biochemical pathway discovery, Large-scale algae cultivation, Algae-based wastewater treatment systems, Algal strain characterization
[email protected]
480-727-1484
ISTB3 103B
Polytechnic campus
Jean Larson
Jean Larson
Associate Research Professor and Education Director, CBBG
Research Interests
Engineering education
[email protected]edu
480-965-7804
GWC 118
Tempe campus
Michael Mamlouk
Michael Mamlouk
Professor
Research Interests
Pavement design and management, pavement evaluation, pavement preservation and rehabilitation, material characterization
[email protected]
480-965-2892
ISTB2 239B
Tempe campus
Giuseppe Mascaro
Giuseppe Mascaro
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Stochastic hydrology, watershed modeling, hydroclimatology, food-water-energy nexus
[email protected]
480-727-2474
ISTB4 395C
Tempe campus
Larry Mays
Larry Mays
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
Multimodal transportation systems planning, water resources sustainability, real-time operation of water resources systems, ancient water technologies, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, real-time operation of water distribution systems
[email protected]
480-965-2524
CAVC 384
Tempe campus
Barzin Mobasher
Barzin Mobasher
Professor
Research Interests
Mechanics of composite materials, development of new construction materials, durability of building materials
[email protected]
480-965-0141
ISTB2 239C
Tempe Campus
Rebecca Muenich
Rebecca Muenich
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Food-energy water nexus, watershed and environmental modeling, urban agriculture, ecosystem services, nutrient recycling.
[email protected]
ISTB4 367
Tempe Campus
(480) 965-1077
Marcus Myers
Narayanan Neithalath
Fulton Professor of Structural Materials, Graduate Programs Chair for the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Research Interests
Materials in civil infrastructure, novel cement-based materials and design, microstructure and mechanics, sustainable materials, computational materials science
[email protected]
480-965-6023
ISTB2 201B
Tempe Campus
Hasan Ozer
Hasan Ozer
Associate Professor and Director of the National Center of Excellence on Smart Innovations
Research Interests
Airfield and highway pavements, asphalt materials characterization, pavement design and structural analysis, computational fracture mechanics, life-cycle assessment and sustainability, preservation and rehabilitation of pavements.
[email protected]
480-727-4309
ISTB2 229A
Tempe campus
Kristen Parrish
Kristen Parrish
Associate Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator for Construction Management
Research Interests
Energy efficiency in buildings, building energy analysis, efficient process design and execution, construction planning, engineering education
[email protected]
480-727-6363
CAVC 572
Tempe campus
Ram Pendyala
Ram Pendyala
Professor and Director of the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment.
Research Interests
Multimodal transportation systems planning, activity-travel behavior analysis, transportation demand forecasting/modeling, travel surveys and data analytics, land use-transportation policy analysis
[email protected]
480-727-4587
CAVC 502
Tempe campus
François Perreault
François Perreault
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Combine microbiology, chemistry and nanotechnology to address critical issues related to water quality and water treatment, Antimicrobial properties of graphene-based nanomaterials, Biofouling control in membrane-based water treatment processes
[email protected]
480-965-4028
ISTB4 375
Tempe campus
Charles Popeck
Subramaniam “Subby” Rajan
Subramaniam “Subby” Rajan
Professor
Research Interests
Structural and solid mechanics, finite element analysis, design optimization, materials and structural testing, high-performance software development
[email protected]
480-965-1712
ISTB2 201A
Tempe Campus
Jafar Razmi
Jafar Razmi
Research Professor
Research Interests
Material behavior, fatigue and damage in engineering structures, infrastructural design and behavior under transportation, environmental, and other dynamic loads in geotechnical engineering. Additive Manufacturing and its numerous applications such as in the fabrication of new materials, process optimization for AM of metals, and experimental characterization of metallic powders.
[email protected]
480-965-2543
ISTB2
Tempe campus
Bruce Rittmann
Bruce Rittmann
Regents Professor and Director of the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology
Research Interests
Environmental biotechnology, biofilms, resource recovery, modeling, microbial ecology
[email protected]
480-727-0434
BDA 210B
Tempe campus
Thomas P. Seager
Thomas P. Seager
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Resilient infrastructure, anticipatory environmental life cycle assessment, team science, sustainable systems & technologies, energy analysis
[email protected]
(480) 727-0531
ISTB4 369
Tempe campus
Richard Standage

Kenneth Sullivan
Kenneth Sullivan
Professor
Research Interests
Organizational transformation, expertise-based project delivery, performance measurement, human factors, and accountability systems, procurement & supply chain, facility management
[email protected]
480-965-4213
CAVC 582
Tempe campus
Junliang (Julian) Tao
Junliang (Julian) Tao
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Bioinspired burrowing mechanisms, bioinspired geosystems, smart and sustainable geosystems, soil behavior
[email protected]
480-965-1108
GWC 126
Tempe campus
Arjunkrishna Venkatesan
Arjunkrishna Venkatesan
Associate Research Scientist
Research Interests
Water and wastewater treatment, contaminants of emerging concern, analytical chemistry, nutrient management, environmental modeling
480-727-2912
Enrique Vivoni
Enrique Vivoni
Fulton Professor of Hydrosystems Engineering
Research Interests
Numerical modeling of watershed processes, eco-hydrology and hydro-meteorology of semiarid regions, applications of environmental sensing technologies, climate and land use change impacts on water resources, stakeholder engagement and decision making support
[email protected]
480-727-3575
ISTB4 769
Tempe campus
Zhihua Wang
Zhihua Wang
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Multiscale urban climate modeling, land-atmospheric interactions, landscape and infrastructure management, urban environmental sustainability study, energy efficiency analysis
[email protected]
480-727-2933
ISTB4 367
Tempe campus
Paul Westerhoff

Paul Westerhoff
Regents Professor and Fulton Chair of Environmental Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Research Interests
Environmental geochemistry; food, water, and energy nexus; drinking water treatment, water quality
[email protected]
480-965-2885
ISTB4 395D
Tempe campus
Avi Wiezel

Avi Wiezel
Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Facilities
Research Interests
Leadership for project-based companies, construction process modeling, entrepreneurial-ism, adult education, mathematical models of decision making
[email protected]
480-965-4121
CAVC 580
Tempe campus
Tianfang Xu

Tianfang Xu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Numerical simulation of groundwater flow and solute transport, uncertainty quantification, and applications of machine learning in hydrology
[email protected]
480-965-7666
ISTB4 469
Tempe campus
Ravi Kiran Yellavajjala
Ravi Kiran Yellavajjala
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Experimental and theoretical mechanics,damage mechanics, data-driven structural engineering
[email protected]
480-965-2790
ISTB2 221B
Tempe Campus
Claudia Zapata
Claudia Zapata
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Geotechnical engineering, environmental effects in pavement design
[email protected]
480-727-8514
GWC 124
Tempe campus
Ruijie Zeng
Ruijie Zeng
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Hydrologic Modeling
[email protected]
480-727-2944
ISTB4 379
Tempe campus
Xuesong Zhou
Xuesong Zhou
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Transportation network modeling, railway engineering, intelligent transportation systems, dynamic traffic assignment
[email protected]
480-965-5827
CAVC 474
Tempe campus