Research
Coastal Engineering
- Development of marine renewable energy systems to harvest energy from waves and tides
- Development of new parameterizations for the prediction of stratified shear turbulence and mixing, with a particular emphasis on coastal turbulence
- Investigation of sediment transport, deposition, and storage processes in estuaries and the coastal ocean
- Use of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) to measure oceanographic quantities and fate/transfer processes in the coastal ocean
Environmental Engineering
- Physico-chemical treatment processes in hazardous waste decontamination systems
- Mathematical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport systems
- Process modeling of water/wastewater treatment systems
Geotechnical Engineering
- Field testing of innovative technologies for measuring contaminants in groundwater
- Measuring fundamental soil properties in the laboratory and in the field
- Use of recycled materials in various construction projects
- Soil-geosynthetic systems
Structural Engineering
- Computational solid and structural mechanics
- Uncertainty quantification
- Data analytics
- Topology optimization
- Design under uncertainty
- Fracture mechanics
- Structural dynamics and stochastic vibrations
- Quantitative engineering sustainability and resilience
Transportation Engineering
- Superpave Implementation in Massachusetts
- Evaluation of the Road System in Massachusetts
- Designing Level Two Multi-use trails
Water Resources Engineering
- Assessment of potential impacts to river and public surface water supply systems due to green house gas emission induced climate change
- Development of modular low-head hydropower systems
- Development of statistical models to generate daily streamflow time series at ungaged sites
- Development of statistical models to estimate the elasticity of streamflow to land development or green house gas induced climate change
- Investigation of sediment transport, deposition, and storage processes in tie channel ponds adjacent to major river systems