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Research Areas

  1. Environmental Engineering - Dr. R. Kommalapati (rrkommalapati@pvamu.edu)

    • Energy and Environmental Sustainability
    • Air Quality and Alternate Energy (Biofuels, Wind and Nuclear energy)
    • Atmospheric interactions of fog water
    • Remediation of contaminated soils and sediments using physical/chemical and biological methods
    • Industrial Waste Separations
    • Application of polyaphrons and alumina coated surfactants for treatment of aqueous wastes
    • Fate and transport of contaminants in the environment -sorption/desorption kinetics and the hysteresis

  2. Structural Engineering - Dr. R. Radha (raradha@pvamu.edu)

    • Capacity and Performance of Foundations for Offshore Structures
    • Trenchless Technology
    • Aftershock Effects on Structures due to Major Earthquake
    • Nanotechnology to Enhance Concrete Properties
    • Evaluation and Prevention of Microbial Acid-Produced Attack of Concrete
    • Developing Web-Based Introductory Course on Space Exploration
    • Enhancing Education and Careers for Minorities in the Transportation Field

  3. Structural Engineering - Dr. H. Yeh (hyyeh@pvamu.edu)

    • Structural Control for Bridge Systems and other Structural systems
    • Structural Vibration due to Earthquake

  4. Transportation Engineering - Dr. J. Perkins (juperkins@pvamu.edu)

    • transportation planning (urban and rural)
    • transportation logistics
    • radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology application
    • emergency management
    • public transportation (regional and rural),
    • statewide intermodal transportation planning
    • geospatial analysis

  5. Water Resources Engineering  - Dr. I. Ahmed ( ifahmed@pvamu.edu)

    • Stochastic Modeling, Risk Management & Scale Issues
    • Computation and Applied Hydraulics
    • Water Resources Systems Analyses
    • River Restoration, Sedimentation, Flood Control, and Fluvial Geomorphology
    • Pipe Network Design, Operational Optimization & Energy Efficiency
    • Reservoir Operations Under Hydroclimatic Uncertainty
    • Groundwater Modeling and Solute Transport

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