Structural EngineeringThe Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment

Civil Engineering

Education for Leadership Roles• Structural Engineering and Analysis• Bridge and Building Structural Design

Research Focus Areas• Extreme-event loading and behavior of infrastructure

systems-Wind- Vessel impact- Blast

• Durability, evaluation, and strengthening of existing structures

• Connections to concrete• Computational mechanics, structural dynamics and

structural analysisResearch Outcomes• Improved safety and reliability of structures• Lower maintenance and rehabilitation costs• Improved understanding of structural behavior under

extreme events

Research Benefits• Building code enhancement• Sustainable and more reliableconstructed infrastructure• Cost-effective repair methods

Research Opportunities• Active research program funded by federal, state and

industrial sponsors• Research assistantships and fellowships with

competitive stipend and full tuition

Facilities• Two parallel-processing supercomputers• Structural testing laboratory with strong wall and floor• Electronic data acquisition systems• Field instrumentation for monitoring structural

performance during extreme events• Building enclosure wind teaching and testing

laboratory• Full-scale hurricane simulation facility

Research Opportunities• Active, funded research program with multiple

sponsors including federal, state and private sources• Research assistantships and fellowships• Competitive stipends and full tuition

Employment OpportunitiesCCE strucrural engineering graduate program will prepare graduates for leadership positions in academia, research institutes, government agencies and industry. Potential industry positions include structural, bridge and architectural design firms

Contact informationFor information on graduate admissions requirements, research opportunities and funding information, please visit the web site for the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment at www.essie.ufl.edu.

For specific inquiries, e-mailgradinfo@essie.ufl.edu

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Faculty

Gary R. Consolazio, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorCharacterization extreme-event loading conditions for civil infrastructure systems, vessel and vehicle impact loading, blast loading, severe thermal loading, finite element analysis, structural dynamics, numerical methods

Ronald A. Cook, Ph.D., P.E.ProfessorStructural design and testing, reinforced concrete (particularly anchorage to concrete), bridge beams and decking, wind effects on structures, development of building codes

Kurtis R. Gurley, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorProbabilistic modeling of natural hazards and structural vulnerability, wind engineering with focus on hurricane winds on residential structures, full-scale measurement of hurricane winds, computational modeling of wind behavior and structural response, mitigation of damage

H.R. (Trey) Hamilton III, Ph.D., P.E.Associate ProfessorStructural concrete and masonry design and testing, durability and evaluation of existing structures, repair and strengthening with fiber reinforced polymers

Ted Krauthammer, Ph.D.Director of the Center for InfrastructureProtection and Physical Security,Goldsby Chair in Civil Engineering, ProfessorStructural behavior under severe dynamic loads, survivability and fragility of critical facilities subject to blast, shock, impact and vibrations

John M. Lybas, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorStructural analysis, reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete

ForrestJ.MastersAssistant ProfessorCharacterization of surface-level tropical cyclone wind and wind-driven rain, wind and wind-driven rain effects on low-rise structures in hurricane-prone regions and stochastic simulation of natural hazard events

David O. PrevattAssistant ProfessorExperimental and analytical modeling of wind-induced forces and structural load paths in structures; full-scale testing of residential homes, forensic engineering and the performance of building enclosure systems within structural systems; simulation of nonuniform and time-varying loads on woodframed structures

Jennifer Rice , Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorStructural health monitoring, smart sensor networks, structural dynamics, bridge testing and evaluation, distributed computing

Thomas Sputo, Ph.D., P.E.LecturerStructural design of buildings, cold-formed steel, professional practice of engineering

CoursesFinite Elements in Civil EngineeringDesign of Highway BridgesTopics in Steel DesignBehavior of Steel StructuresPre-stressed ConcreteDesign of Concrete SystemsDesign and Construction in TimberDesign of Reinforced Masonry StructuresAdvanced Structural AnalysisStructural DynamicsComputer Methods in Structural

EngineeringNonlinear Structural Analysis and DesignDesign of Folded Plates and ShellsAdvanced Reinforced ConcreteProbabilistic and Stochastic Methods in

Civil EngineeringProtective StructuresImpact EngineeringWind Engineering