This document provides information on the CIV 596 course, including that there are 14 total classes, 3 assessments (2 assignments and 1 presentation), and no MTE or ETE requirements. It also lists 7 potential research areas: 1) structural engineering, 2) geotechnical engineering, 3) transportation engineering, 4) water resources and hydraulic engineering, 5) infrastructure engineering and management, 6) environment engineering, and 7) earth system science and engineering. Each research area provides brief descriptions of potential research topics.
2. Research Areas
1. Structural Engineering
Structural dynamics, bridge engineering, wind induced vibration & control, non-
destructive techniques, passive and semi-active control of buildings,
performance based seismic design, system identification & structural health
monitoring, seismic damage assessment, finite element mesh generation,
optimization, retrofitting of structures, spectral finite element methods,
structural reliability, fluid-structure interaction, seismic analysis of concrete dam,
cost-effective housing.
3. 2. Geotechnical Engineering
soil behavior, shallow and deep foundations, reinforced soil structures, landslides, constitutive
modeling, soil dynamics, analysis and design of machine foundations, engineering seismology, wave
propagation, seismic site characterization, seismic soil-structure interaction, seismic stability of slopes
and retaining walls, design of offshore foundations, field instrumentation and testing, ground
improvement techniques, geo-environmental engineering.
5. 3. Transportation Engineering
characterization of pavement materials, pre-cast concrete block pavement, cast-in-situ concrete block
pavement, pavement design, structural and functional evaluation of pavements, traffic engineering
and issues related to road safety.
6. 4. Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering
specialization include meso-scale distributed hydrological modeling, satellite remote sensing and GIS
for water resources management, computational river hydraulics and its applications, watershed and
irrigation management, flow through porous media, stochastic sub-surface hydrology, rainfall
modeling, modeling & simulation in free surface flow, heuristic method in reservoir optimization, GIS
based watershed modeling, Dam Break Analysis.
7. 5. Infrastructure Engineering and Management
Public Private Partnerships, Risk Management, Building Information Modeling, Governance in PPP,
Sustainable Infrastructure, Competency Enhancement, Project Finance,Durability studies in concrete,
Sustainable construction materials, Corrosion of steel, Reinforcement and Protection Measures, High
Performance Concrete, Non-destructive Testing of Concrete Structures, Construction Management,
Construction Finance.
8. 6. Environment Engineering
air quality modeling in urban transport and industrial environment, environmental noise modeling,
water quality modeling, biodegradation of industrial wastewater, removal of heavy metals from
wastewater, sludge treatment by physicochemical and biological process.
9. 7. Earth System Science and Engineering
sediment dynamics in fluvial systems, environmental impact/risk assessment & management, meso-
scale distributed hydrological modeling, petrophysical modelling for petroleum exploration, advance
remote sensing (hyperspectral, thermal and microwave) and GIS techniques for the earth and
planetary exploration, airborne remote sensing (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) for mapping and
exploration, synthetic simulation, sensor calibration, airborne and terrestrial LiDAR, thermography,
development of lumped parameter models, and flight planning.