UC Irvine
Civil & Environmental Engineering
State of the Department
October 21, 2006
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UC Irvine
Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Civil Engineering Program (BS – CE)
• Environmental Engineering Program (BS – EE)
Undergraduate Program Objective:
Provide basis of advanced study in civil engineering,
foundation for lifelong learning in a dynamic technical
society, and requisite skills to enter directly into the
practice of engineering
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Academic Program Scope
Graduate Degree Programs
 MS – CEE
 PhD – CEE
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Structures
Transportation
Hydrology and Water Resources
Environmental Engineering
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Faculty
•Maria Q. Feng**
•R. (Jay) Javakrishnnan
•Michael G. McNally
•Ayman Mosallam (in Residence)
•Wilfred W. Recker
•Jean-Daniel Saphores
•Chenyang Sunny Jiang
•William Cooper
•Amelia C. Regan**(SICS)
•Stephen G. Ritchie**
•Brett F. Sanders**
•Masanobu Shinozuka* (Chair)
•Soroosh Sorooshian*
•Lizhi Sun
•Jann N. Yang
• Betty H. Olson
•Farzin Zareian
17 Professors
*Member of National Academy of Engineering
**Recipient of NSF Career Award
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Faculty (Emeritus)
•Alfredo H.-S. Ang*
•Medhat A. Haroun
•Gerard C. Pardoen
•Jan Scherfig
•Robin Shepherd
•Roberto Villaverde
6 Professors of Emeritus
*Member of National Academy of Engineering
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Faculty
Courtesy Appointment
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Jay Famiglietti – (Earth System Science)
Farghalli A. Mohamed – (Chemical Engineering &
Materials Science)
Adjunct
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Xiaogang Gao
 Kuo-lin Hsu
 Bisher Imam
 Ann Sardo
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Lecturers (Most Recent 2 Years)
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Steve Bucknam
Winston Chai
Jim Ewing
Houwei Fang
Charles Hamilton
Ahmad Kamrany
Adnan Maiah
• James Marca
• Zoltan Mester
• Craig Rindt
• Ayman Salama
• Kathiravetpill Sivathasan
• Eric Vogler
• Marwan Youssef
14 Lecturers
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Honors and Awards
National Academy of Engineering Members
A. Ang, M. Shinozuka, S. Sorooshian
NSF Career Awards
M. Feng, B. F. Sanders, A. C. Regan, S. Ritchie
Agency Awards
Soroosh Sorooshian – NASA Public Service Medal (2005)
Professional Society Awards
Masanobu Shinozuka – ASCE Robert H. Scanlan Medal (2006)
Maria Feng – ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize (1999)
Ayman Mosallam – Outstanding Research Award at International Conference
of Composites Engineering (2006)
Campus Awards
Masanobu Shinozuka – Egleston Medal, Columbia School of Engineering
Alumni Association (2004)
Brett F. Sanders – UCI Teaching Award
Industry Awards
Lizhi Sun – Honda Initiation Award (2006)
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US NEWS & WORLD REPORT RANKINGS
America’s Best Graduate Schools 2007
UCI Program
Aerospace
2006
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2007
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Civil
31
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Biomedical
Computer Engineering
Chemical
Electrical
40
43
55
49
39
34
54
42
Environmental
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Materials
Mechanical
45
30
45
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Undergraduate & Graduate Enrollments
400
Undergraduate
Graduate
No. of Students Enrolled
300
200
100
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2001
2002
2003
Year
2004
2005
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Research
– Active research in the areas of:
• Transportation: Systems modeling, logistics, freight and fleet
management, urban systems analysis
• Structures: Earthquake engineering, experimental modal
analysis, intelligent control, sensors and health monitoring,
reliability and risk analysis
• Water Resources, Hydrology and Environmental
Engineering: computational and environmental fluid
dynamics, flood mitigation, subsurface solute transport,
water reclamation, waste treatment processes, regional
hydro-climate modeling, arid-zone hydrology, and
hydrologic remote sensing.
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CUBISM
(Center for Urban-Based Infrastructure Security and Management)
CUBISM was established in July, 2003 in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering,
University of California, Irvine. The goal of the Center is to address the issues of
reliability, homeland security and management as they pertain to the nation's
infrastructure systems in a multidisciplinary framework. A seamless integration of
natural science, engineering, management, economics and social science studies will be
carried out to cost-effectively prevent, protect and respond to natural and man-made
hazards, including terrorist attacks. The Center consists of the UCI faculty from the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science (EECS) interested in the infrastructure security and management.
The Center is currently in the process if appointing members with management,
economics, risk, social science expertise in the UCI faculty and elsewhere. At this time,
the Center website is under construction. Interested parties may find the following
websites to be informative.
Pai Chou, Maria Q. Feng, Ayman Mosallam, Masanobu
Shinozuka, Lizhi Sun, Jann N. Yang, and Farzin Zareian,
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Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing
Improve hydrologic prediction through
development and refinement of hydrologic
models and use of advanced observations,
particularly from remote sensing sources
Develop mathematical
algorithms capable of estimating
precipitation both from spacebased and in-situ observations at
spatial and temporal resolutions
relevant to hydrologic
applications, particularly in the
semi arid environments
Develop decision support tools
for generating and evaluating a
variety of hydro-meteorologic
and hydro-climatologic
information required by the
water resources management
community
Contribute to the education of well
trained hydrologists and water resources
engineers responsive to the growing needs of
public and private sectors at the state,
national and international levels.
http://chrs.web.uci.edu/
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Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
The Urban Water Research Center's (UWRC) mission is to advance
the understanding of the distinct characteristics of the urban water
environment in order to assist people and institutions in their effort
to promote health, enhance the efficient use of water resources,
and protect environmental values.
The Center links faculty from 6 departments at UC Irvine:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Earth System Sciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Environmental Health, Science, and Policy
Environmental Toxicology
Planning, Policy, and Design
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THE INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION STUDIES
The Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), a University of California organized
research unit with branches at Irvine, Davis, and Berkeley, was established to foster
research, education, and training in the field of transportation.
A fundamental goal of the Institute is the stimulation of interdisciplinary research on
contemporary transportation issues. ITS research at the University of California, Irvine
(UCI) involves faculty and students from The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, the
School of Social Sciences, the School of Social Ecology, the Graduate School of
Management, and the Department of Information and Computer Science. The Institute
also hosts visiting scholars from the U.S. and abroad to facilitate cooperative research
and information exchange, and sponsors conferences and colloquia to disseminate
research results.
ITS is also part of the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC), one of ten
federally-designated centers for transportation research and education, and a member of
the Council of University Transportation Centers, (CUTC).
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Research Awards
CEE
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006*
$2,397,588
$4,930,082
$8,193,853
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CEE Facilities
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ITS (Institute for Transportation Studies)
SETH (Structural Engineering Test Hall); expansion adding
a soil pit completed on March 31, 2005 with $ 1.2 M funded
by the campus in 2003/2004.
Light Structures Test Facility
under Development
Remote Sensing Laboratory
under Development in Cal(IT)2 Building
Nano Composite Materials Laboratory
under Development
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CEE Facilities
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Renovation of a Wet Laboratory (900 sq ft) at ET
completed ($ 87 K funded by the campus)
PLAN for 2005 - 2006
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Renovation and upgrading computers at
Computational Laboratory at EG
• NSF MRI – Sponsored Nano Composite Fabrication Lab
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Further improvement of SETH for enhanced
safety and work conditions
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CEE Affiliates
The purpose of the UCI Civil and Environmental Engineering
(CEE) Affiliates is to provide an effective means to offer support
and guidance to the Department, its programs and students, and
to act as an interface between the professional civil and
environmental engineering community in Southern California,
particularly in Orange County, and the University. The CEE
Affiliates include senior executives representing leading civil and
environmental engineering firms (both large and small) and
public agencies, as well as individual members.
Current President: Gregory P. Heiertz
Director of Engineering and Planning
Irvine Ranch Water District
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CEE Affiliates Course Support
 CEE 55 Land Measurements and Analysis - Introduction to
surveying and land measurements. Use of the level and transit equipment,
legal descriptions, subdivisions, topographic surveys, mapping vertical and
horizontal curves. Analysis of surveying field data using manual methods,
computer programs, and the COGO software system.
 CEE 198 EIT Review: Offered each Winter quarter to review
information necessary to apply for certification as an Engineer-in-Training
(EIT).
 CEE 181 A-B-C Senior Design Practicum: Team designs a land
development project including infrastructural, environmental, circulation
aspects. Focus on traffic impact studies, design of road layouts, geometry,
signals, geotechnical and hydrological analysis, design of structural
elements, economic analysis. Oral/written interim and final design reports.
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Dedicated Staff
Support for research proposal development
Administration of appointments and personnel cases for
faculty and researchers
Administration of student applications, registrations, record
archiving, class room assignment, Lecturer,TA, and Reader
appointments
Administration and Management of Departmental budget and
extramural awards.
ABET, Senate Review
And many other details
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For More Information
HSSoECIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING WEBSITE:
http://www.eng.uci.edu/dept/cee/
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