Civil Engineering (PhD)
Degree Requirements
Students may choose from the specializations below to complete coursework within a focus area.
Degrees earned will be distributed as: "Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering" without specialization specifications.
- 54 graduate credit hours beyond master's
- Areas of Specialization
- Computing and Systems
- Construction Engineering
- Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering
- Geotechnical/Geoenvironmental Engineering
- Mechanics and Materials
- Structural Engineering and Mechanics
- Transportation Materials and Systems
Faculty
Full Professors
- Sankarasubramanian Arumugam
- Morton A. Barlaz
- Joseph F. DeCarolis
Area of Research: Environmental and Energy Policy - John W. Baugh Jr.
- Emily Zechman Berglund
- Francis Lajara De Los Reyes III
- Joel Ducoste
- Henry C. Frey
- Mohammed Awad Gabr
- Jessica Ann Kaminsky
- Murthy N.Guddati
- Abhinav Gupta
- Tasnim Hassan
- Edward J. Jaselskis
- Youngsoo R. Kim
- Detlef R. Knappe
- Mervyn J. Kowalsky
- George F. List
- Min Liu
- Gnanamanikam Mahinthakumar
- James M. Nau
- Margery F. Overton
- Ranji Ranjithan
- William John Rasdorf
- Rudolf Seracino
- Akhtarhusein A. Tayebali
- Billy Merle Williams Jr.
Associate Professors
- Ange Therese Akono
- Alex Albert
Area of Research: Construction Engineering and Management - Douglas F. Call
Area of Research: Environmental & Water Resources - Cassandra Alison Castorena
- Danjue Chen
- Joel Casey Dietrich
- Andrew P. Grieshop
- Jeremiah Johnson
- Brina Mortensen Montoya
- Daniel R. Obenour
Area of Research: Water Resources & Coastal Engineering - Mohammad Pour-Ghaz
- Benjamin Shane Underwood
Assistant Professors
- Katherine Anarde
Area of Research: Environmental, Water Resources, & Coastal Engineering - Tarek Aziz
- Eleni Bardaka
- Jorge Emilio San Juan Blanco
- Ashly Margot Cabas Mijares
- Fernando Garcia Menendez
- Ali Hajbabaie
- Kook Han
- Angela Rose Harris
- Jordan Kern
- Jason Fredrick Patrick
- Giorgio Talotti Proestos
- Jacelyn Jaunice Rice-Boayue
- Andrew Joseph Ziccarelli
Practice/Research/Teaching Professors
- Saran Srikanth Bodda
- Florentino Banaag De La Cruz
- Billy L. Edge
- Meagan Kittle Autry
- James William Levis
- Gregory W. Lucier
- Mohamad Shoaib Samandar
- Elizabeth J. Sciaudone
Adjunct Faculty
- Amin Kamal Akhnoukh
- Michael Scott Breen, Adjunct Professor
Area of Research: Environmental Engineering & Air Quality - Daniel J. Findley, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Area of Research: Transportation Research (ITRE) - Alejandra C. Geiger-Ortiz, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Area of Research: Coastal Engineering - Leta Huntsinger
- Anderson Rodrigo de Queiroz, Adjunct Research Assistant Professor
- Aditya Sinha
Assistant Research Professor
- Tongchuan Wei
Emeritus Faculty
- William L. Bingham
- Robert C. Borden
- Roy H. Borden
- Earl Downey Brill Jr
- Allen C. Chao
- John S. Fisher
- Ajaya K. Gupta
- Kerry S. Havner
- Clinton L. Heimbach
- Yasuyuki Horie
- David West Johnston
- Narendra P. Khosla
- Michael Lloyd Leming
- Vernon C. Matzen
- Stephens W. Nunnally
- M. Shamimur Rahman
- Sami Rizkalla
- Nagui M. Rouphail, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Area of Research: Transportation Engineering & Systems - J. C. Smith
- John R. Stone
- Harvey E. Wahls
- Paul Z. Zia