Research Interests
The execution phase of building and civil engineering construction, decision analysis on scale, feasibility, risks and their assignment, selection of procurement mode, etc.
Research Interests
Earthquake engineering, solid mechanics, structural analysis, structural dynamics.
Donald Mavinic
Professor Emeritus
Environmental Systems Engineering, Pollution Control and Waste Management
Research Interests
Landfill leachate management, biological waste treatment processes, wastewater residuals treatment, nitrification and denitrification processes, phosphorus removal and recovery, diffused aeration studies, drinking water pipe corrosion studies and disinfection by-products in drinking water.
Research Interests
Membrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment, membrane fouling, modeling and simulation of wastewater treatment systems, fate of emerging contaminants during secondary treatment, microbial ecology of biological treatment systems.
Research Interests
Research Interests
Solid waste management, leachate generation, characterization and treatment, groundwater contamination, groundwater nitrification/denitrification.
Research Interests
Field and laboratory characterization of soils for geotechnical engineering design, ground improvement, foundation engineering.
Research Interests
Toxic materials in aquatic environments, cycling of organics, water chemistry, trace organic analysis, eutrophication.
Research Interests
Soil dynamics, seismic response and liquefaction, analytical and computer methods, offshore structures, centrifuge modelling.
Research Interests
Coastal and offshore hydrodynamics, with a particular emphasis on ocean waves and their effects on structures.
Research Interests
Mountain hydrology, forecasting of snow and glacier melt runoff, river engineering, coastal erosion and beach forecasting.
Research Interests
Reliability Theory and Applications of Probabilistic Methods in Civil Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Reliability Problems Computational Structural Mechanics and Earthquake Engineering Applications to Wood Structures.
Research Interests
Guiding graduate and undergraduate students in Applied Science with the language proficiencies, knowledge of rhetorical strategies and genre expectations of their profession; assisting students to succeed as professionals in both their scholarly writing and speaking; investigation of the gap between international students’ assumptions about success and an Applied Science professor’s measurement of that success.
Research Interests
Portland cement and concrete, materials testing, fracture mechanics.
Research Interests
Steel design, adaptive structures, knowledge management, composite designs, investigations on and modeling of complex structural systems.
Research Interests
Soil and water engineering, drainage and irrigation systems planning, design and installation; integrated water management system operations and performance evaluations; impact of irrigation and drainage on water and solute movement in soils, soil salinity control and windblown dust mitigation
Research Interests
Transdisciplinary education; Curricula design and assessment; Beliefs and attitude development in engineering education
Victor Lo
Professor Emeritus
Environmental Systems Engineering, Pollution Control and Waste Management
Research Interests
Biological process applications in waste treatment and utilization [aerobic and anaerobic treatments of and nutrients recovery from food processing and agricultural wastewaters and solid wastes including composting, and anaerobic digestion. Application of microwave enhanced advanced oxidation process in nutrients solubilization from organic slurries.
Research Interests
Applications of optimization techniques and statistics in water resources planning and operation. Statistical design of hydrologic and environmental data gathering networks. Optimization of scheduling of repetitive construction activities.
