Full-time Faculty

Our faculty members—who combine practical experience with in-depth scholarly studies—instruct students, guide them, and make them partners in advanced research projects.

David Binning, PE, Instructor/Director, Assessment and Accreditation. MS, University of Delaware. Expertise: water resources engineering.

Doaa Bondok, Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia. Expertise: structural engineering.

Behzad Esmaeili, Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Colorado-Boulder. Expertise: construction engineering; construction safety.

Celso Ferreira, PE, Associate Professor. PhD, Texas A&M University. Expertise: water resources and coastal engineering; storm surge inundation prediction; geographic information systems.

Kirin Furst, Assistant Professor. PhD, Stanford University. Expertise: environmental chemistry; water quality engineering; human exposure analysis.

Lucas Henneman, Assistant Professor. PhD, Georgia Tech. Expertise: air pollution modeling; health effects of air quality interventions; environmental policy. Wenying Ji, Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Alberta. Expertise: construction engineering; construction simulation.

Laura Kosoglu, Associate Department Chair and Associate Professor. PhD, Virginia Tech. Expertise: geotechnical engineering.

David Lattanzi, PE, Associate Professor. PhD, University of Washington. Expertise: structural engineering; structural health monitoring; computer vision.

Viviana Maggioni, Associate Professor. PhD, University of Connecticut. Expertise: environmental engineering; remote sensing; hydrometeorology.

Elise Miller-Hooks, Professor, Bill and Eleanor Hazel Chair in Infrastructure Engineering. PhD, University of TexasAustin. Expertise: transportation engineering; civil infrastructure systems; stochastic and dynamic network algorithms.

Sam Salem, PE, Department Chair and Professor, CPC, LEED AP, PhD, University of Alberta. Expertise: construction engineering; lean and green construction; life cycle analysis. Burak Tanyu, Associate Professor. PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Expertise: geotechnical engineering; engineering geology; geo-environmental engineering.

Kuo Tian, Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Expertise: geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering.

Girum Urgessa, PE, Associate Professor. PhD, University of New Mexico. Expertise: structural engineering; computational mechanics; composite materials.

Mohan Venigalla, PE, F.ASCE., Professor. PhD, University of Tennessee. Expertise: transportation engineering; transportation planning; transportation air quality.

Ken Walsh, Vice President and Chief of Staff. PhD, Arizona State University. Expertise: construction engineering and management.

Shanjiang Zhu, Associate Professor. PhD, University of Minnesota. Expertise: transportation engineering; transportation economics; route choice and optimization.