Faculty
Environmental Engineering
Dr. Eakalak Khan, P.E.
Professor and Dept. Chair
Office: CIE 201
Telephone: (701) 231-7717
Email: Eakalak.Khan@ndsu.edu
Research Interests
- Water and wastewater quality especially on biodegradability
- Biological process development for water and wastewater treatment
- Removal of hazardous chemicals from water and wastewater
- Stormwater and non-point source pollution control
Dr. Achintya N. Bezbaruah
Assistant Professor
Office: CIE 201G
Telephone: (701) 231-7461
Email: A.Bezbaruah@ndsu.edu
Web: www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~bezbarua/index.html
Research Interests
- Nanomaterials for Pollution Control
- Environmental sensors
- Recalcitrant and micro pollutants
- Contaminant fate and transport
- Small community water and wastewater treatment
- Environmental management
Dr. Wei Lin
Associate Professor
Office: CIE 201N
Telephone: (701) 231-7244
Email: Wei.Lin@ndsu.edu
Research Interests
- Kinetic studies of physic-chemical and biological processes
- Contaminant adsorption during water and wastewater treatment
- Impact of temperature on nitrification in wastewater treatment
- River and lake water quality and non-point source pollution
Water Resources Engineering
Dr. Xuefeng (Michael) Chu
Assistant Professor
Office: CIE 201N
Telephone: (701) 231-9758
Email: Xuefeng.Chu@ndsu.edu
Research Interests
- Watershed Hydrologic and Environmental Modeling
- Overland Flow and Infiltration
- Integrated modeling of flow and multi-phase contaminant transport in surface and subsurface environments
- Non-point source pollution and environmental assessment
- Groundwater modeling and management
Dr. G. Padmanabhan, P.E., F. ASCE
Professor of Civil Engineering
Director, ND Water Resources Research Institute
Coordinator, ND EPSCoR "Nature" Program
Office: CIE 201E
Telephone: (701) 231-7043
Email: G.Padmanabhan@ndsu.edu
Research Interests
- Hydrology
- Water Resources
- Hydraulic Engineering
Transportation Engineering
Dr. Donald A. Andersen, P.E.
Associate Professor
Office: CIE 201J
Telephone: (701) 231-7225
Email: Donald.Andersen@ndsu.edu
Research Interests
- Transportation
- Pavements
- Traffic Engineering
Dr. Amiy Varma, P.E.
Associate Professor
Office: CIE 201G
Telephone: (701) 231-7041
Email: Amiy.Varma@ndsu.edu
Research Interests
- Transportation Systems
- Traffic Engineering
- Airports
- Infrastructure Management
Dr. Magdy Abdelrahman
Associate Professor
Office: CIE 201F
Telephone: (701) 231-7249
Email: M.Abdelrahman@ndsu.edu
Research Interests
- Pavement Materials
- Recycled Materials
- Sustainability Research
- Academic Development
Dr. Ying Huang
Assistant Professor
Office: CIE 201Q
Telephone: (701) 231-7561
Email: ying.huang@ndsu.edu
Research Interests
- Structural Health Monitoring/Smart Structures for Transportation Infrastructure
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Applications of Adaptive and Smart Materials
- Finite Element Modeling
- Multi-Hazard Assessment and Mitigation
Geotechnical Engineering
Dr. Dinesh Katti, P.E.
Professor
Office: CIE 201C
Telephone: (701) 231-7245
Email: Dinesh.Katti@ndsu.edu
Web: www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~dkatti
Research Interests
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Constitutive Modeling of Materials
- Expansive Soils
- Multiscale Modeling of Material Response
- Bio-Nanocomposites
- Finite Element Method
- Geosynthetics
Dr. Sivaplan Gajan
Associate Professor
Office: CIE 201Q
Telephone: (701) 231-5648
Email: S.Gajan@ndsu.edu
Web: www.ndsu.edu/gajan
Research Interests
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Foundation Engineering
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Dynamic Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction
- Computational Modeling of Geotechnical Systems
- Current Research Projects
Structural Engineering
Dr. Frank Yazdani, P.E.
Professor
Office: CIE 201K
Telephone: (701) 231-7878
Email: Frank.Yazdani@ndsu.edu
Research Interests
- Structural Engineering/Mechanics
- Constitutive Modeling of Materials
- Damage Mechanics
- Plasticity
- Computational Plasticity
- Finite Elements
- Concrete and Masonry Materials
Dr. Yail Jimmy Kim, P.Eng.
Assistant Professor
Office: CIE 203
Telephone: (701) 231-6394
Email: Jimmy.Kim@ndsu.edu
Web: www.ndsu.edu/yakim
Research Interests
- Sustainable structural rehabilitation using advanced composite materials
- Bridge Engineering
- Deterioration and durability
- Fatigue and fracture
- Emerging materials
- Computational modeling
Dr. Mijia Yang, P.E.
Assistant Professor
Office: CIE 201L
Telephone: (701) 231-5647
Email: Mijia.yang@ndsu.edu
Research Interests
- Impact and blast protection and retrofit hardening with advanced engineering materials
- Structural optimization
- Multi-scale modeling of composite and concrete materials
- Smart health monitoring in Civil Infrastructure
- Self-healing, self-heating concrete
- Smart painting sensors
Material Science and Engineering
Dr. Kalpana Katti
Distinguished Professor
Office: CIE 201B
Telephone: (701) 231-9504
Email: Kalpana.Katti@ndsu.edu
Web: www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~kkatti/
Research Interests
- Biomaterials
- Biomimetic Nanotechnology
- Clay fluid interactions
- Clay nanocomposites
Professor Katti Receives the Waldron Award for Excellence in Research
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Mijia Yang and Frank Yazdani secure US DoT Grants
Achintya Bezbaruah, Dinesh Katti and Kalapana Katti Awarded NIFA/USDA Food Safety Grant
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