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Kansas State University

UTC Faculty and Staff

 

Because transportation encompasses all of the disciplines of Civil Engineering, many of K-State’s Civil Engineering faculty are involved in transportation research.  For example, bridges have footings requiring geotechnical analysis, watersheds and flows requiring environmental and water resources engineering, the bridge itself requiring structural engineering, and the bridge traffic requires transportation engineers.

Brian A. Coon, Director
Brian A. Coon

Dr. Coon's areas of expertise include transportation safety, accident reconstruction, non-linear finite element modeling, and the legal aspects of transportation engineering.

bcoon@ksu.edu
Renee Slick
Renee Slick, Associate Director

Driver behavior and interaction, vehicle simulation, and industrial/occupational psychology.

rslick@ksu.edu
Sunanda Dissanayake
Sunanda Dissanayake

Traffic engineering and highway safety; Traffic control systems; Special population groups; Modeling and simulation of transport systems; Access management; Computer applications in transportation engineering

sunanda@ksu.edu
Asad Esmaeily
Asad Esmaeily

Seismic behavior of bridges under various loading conditions; Analytical methods/models in civil engineering (experimental calibration); Non-destructive tests of existing structures; Performance-based design concepts

asad@ksu.edu
Mustaque Hossain
Mustaque Hossain

Pavement design evaluation; Pavement performance and management; Nondestructive testing of pavements; Highway materials; Soil stabilization

mustak@ksu.edu
Alexander Mathews
Alexander P. Mathews

Physicochemical processes;Water, wastewater, sludges and hazardous waste treatment; Bioprocessing for resources recovery; Sorption effects on sub-surface contaminant transport; In-situ remediation of soils and groundwater

alex@ksu.edu
Hani Melhem
Hani G. Melhem

Accelerated pavement testing; Computer controlled testing of structures; Artificial intelligence and information systems; Non-destructive evaluation of structures; Finite elements and numerical modeling

melhem@ksu.edu
Jacob Najjar
Jacob M. Najjar

Neural networks; Pavement performance and transportation engineering systems; Geosynthetics and geoenvironmental systems; Computational mechanics and geomechanics; Soil-structure interaction and underground excavations

ea4146@ksu.edu
Dunja Peric;
Dunja Periç

Analytical and computational geomechanics; Experimental geomechanics; Environmental geomechanics

peric@ksu.edu
Robert Peterman
Robert J. Peterman

Behavior and analysis of concrete and prestressed concrete structures; Experimental testing of structural components; Durability of bridge decks; Time-dependent deformations in structures

bob@ksu.edu
Hayder Rasheed
Hayder A. Rasheed

Behavior of fiber-reinforced composite materials and structures; Stability and buckling of structural components; Nonlinear finite element analysis of structures; Nonlinear constitutive modeling of structural materials

hayder@ksu.edu
David Steward
David R. Steward

Mathematical and computer modeling of groundwater flow; Application of GIS geospatial technology to water resources; Integrated modeling approaches to understand responses to human/climate-induced changes in groundwater availability

steward@ksu.edu

Robert Stokes
Robert W. Stokes

Planning and design of urban, rural and intercity transportation systems; Highway design, planning and operations; Design, planning and operation of turning lanes; Transit planning, design and operations.

drbobb@ksu.edu