CEE PP Presentation 11 06

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UC Irvine

Civil & Environmental Engineering

State of the DepartmentOctober 21, 2006


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UC Irvine

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Undergraduate Program Objective:Provide basis of advanced study in civil engineering,

foundation for lifelong learning in a dynamic technicalsociety, and requisite skills to enter directly into the

practice of engineering

Civil Engineering Program (BSCE)

Environmental Engineering Program (BSEE)


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Academic Program Scope

Graduate Degree Programs

MSCEE

PhDCEE

Structures

Transportation

Hydrology and Water Resources

Environmental Engineering


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Alfredo H.-S. Ang*

Medhat A. Haroun

Gerard C. Pardoen

Faculty (Emeritus)Jan Scherfig

Robin Shepherd

Roberto Villaverde

*Member of National Academy of Engineering

6 Professors of Emeritus


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FacultyCourtesyAppointment

Jay Famiglietti (Earth System Science)

Farghalli A. Mohamed (Chemical Engineering &Materials Science)

Adjunct

Xiaogang Gao

Kuo-lin Hsu

Bisher Imam

Ann Sardo


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Lecturers (Most Recent 2 Years) 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 MembersA. 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 Conferenceof Composites Engineering (2006)

Campus Awards

Masanobu Shinozuka Egleston Medal, Columbia School of EngineeringAlumni 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

Americas Best Graduate Schools 2007

UCI Program 2006 2007

Aerospace 29 27

Civil 31 24

Biomedical 40 39Computer Engineering 43 34

Chemical 55 54

Electrical 49 42

Environmental 34 34Materials 45 45

Mechanical 30 36


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Undergraduate & GraduateEnrollments


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Research Active research in the areas of:

Transportation: Systems modeling, logistics, freight and fleetmanagement, urban systems analysis

Structures: Earthquake engineering, experimental modal

analysis, intelligent control, sensors and health monitoring,reliability and risk analysis

Water Resources, Hydrology and EnvironmentalEngineering: computational and environmental fluiddynamics, flood mitigation, subsurface solute transport,water reclamation, waste treatment processes, regionalhydro-climate modeling, arid-zone hydrology, andhydrologic 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 theDepartment 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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Improve hydrologic prediction through

development and refinement of hydrologicmodels and use of advanced observations,particularly from remote sensing sources

Develop decision support toolsfor generating and evaluating avariety of hydro-meteorologic

and hydro-climatologicinformation required by the

water resources managementcommunity

Develop mathematicalalgorithms capable of estimating

precipitation both from space-based and in-situ observations atspatial and temporal resolutions

relevant to hydrologicapplications, particularly in the

semi arid environments

Contribute to the education of welltrained hydrologists and water resources

engineers responsive to the growing needs ofpublic and private sectors at the state,

national and international levels.

Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine

http://chrs.web.uci.edu/

Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing


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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 BiologyEnvironmental Health, Science, and Policy

Environmental Toxicology

Planning, Policy, and Design
http://www.eng.uci.edu/ceehttp://www.ess.uci.edu/http://ecoevo.bio.uci.edu/index.htmlhttp://www.seweb.uci.edu/ehsphttp://www.ucihs.uci.edu/com/envtoxhttp://www.seweb.uci.edu/ppdhttp://www.seweb.uci.edu/ppdhttp://www.ucihs.uci.edu/com/envtoxhttp://www.seweb.uci.edu/ehsphttp://ecoevo.bio.uci.edu/index.htmlhttp://www.ess.uci.edu/http://www.eng.uci.edu/cee


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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 fosterresearch, 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 ofManagement, 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).
http://www.its.uci.edu/its/uctc.htmlhttp://cutc.tamu.edu/http://cutc.tamu.edu/http://www.its.uci.edu/its/uctc.html


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Research Awards

2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006*

CEE $2,397,588 $4,930,082 $8,193,853


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CEE Facilities ITS (Institute for Transportation Studies)

SETH (Structural Engineering Test Hall); expansion addinga soil pit completed on March 31, 2005 with $ 1.2 M fundedby the campus in 2003/2004.

Light Structures Test Facilityunder Development

Remote Sensing Laboratory

under Development in Cal(IT)2 Building

Nano Composite Materials Laboratoryunder Development


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CEE Facilities Renovation of a Wet Laboratory (900 sq ft) at ET

completed ($ 87 K funded by the campus)

PLAN for 2005 - 2006 Renovation and upgrading computers at

Computational Laboratory at EG

NSF MRI

Sponsored Nano Composite Fabrication Lab

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. HeiertzDirector of Engineering and PlanningIrvine Ranch Water District


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CEE Affiliates Course Support

CEE 55 Land Measurements and Analysis - Introduction tosurveying and land measurements. Use of the level and transit equipment,legal descriptions, subdivisions, topographic surveys, mapping vertical andhorizontal 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 reviewinformation necessary to apply for certification as an Engineer-in-Training(EIT).

CEE 181 A-B-C Senior Design Practicum: Team designs a landdevelopment project including infrastructural, environmental, circulationaspects. Focus on traffic impact studies, design of road layouts, geometry,

signals, geotechnical and hydrological analysis, design of structuralelements, economic analysis. Oral/written interim and final design reports.


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For More Information

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERINGWEBSITE:http://www.eng.uci.edu/dept/cee/

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