UC Irvine Civil

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UC Irvine Civil Environmental Engineering
State of the Department October 21, 2006
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UC Irvine Civil Environmental Engineering

• Civil Engineering Program (BS CE)
• Environmental Engineering Program (BS EE)

Undergraduate Program Objective Provide basis
of advanced study in civil engineering,
foundation for lifelong learning in a dynamic
technical society, and requisite skills to enter
directly into the practice of engineering
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Academic Program Scope

• Graduate Degree Programs
• MS CEE
• PhD CEE
• Structures
• Transportation
• Hydrology and Water Resources
• Environmental Engineering

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Faculty

• Amelia C. Regan(SICS)
• Stephen G. Ritchie
• Brett F. Sanders
• Masanobu Shinozuka (Chair)
• Soroosh Sorooshian
• Lizhi Sun
• Jann N. Yang
• Betty H. Olson
• Farzin Zareian

• Maria Q. Feng
• R. (Jay) Javakrishnnan
• Michael G. McNally
• Ayman Mosallam (in Residence)
• Wilfred W. Recker
• Jean-Daniel Saphores
• Chenyang Sunny Jiang
• William Cooper

17 Professors
Member of National Academy of Engineering Recip
ient of NSF Career Award
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Faculty (Emeritus)

• Alfredo H.-S. Ang
• Medhat A. Haroun
• Gerard C. Pardoen

• Jan Scherfig
• Robin Shepherd
• Roberto Villaverde

6 Professors of Emeritus
Member of National Academy of Engineering
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Faculty

• Courtesy Appointment
• 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 Members
• A. 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 Conference of Composites
  Engineering (2006)
• Campus Awards
• Masanobu Shinozuka Egleston Medal, Columbia
  School of Engineering Alumni Association (2004)
• Brett F. Sanders UCI Teaching Award

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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 39
• Computer Engineering 43 34
• Chemical 55 54
• Electrical 49 42
• Environmental 34 34
• Materials 45 45
• Mechanical 30 36

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• Undergraduate Graduate Enrollments
• Fall 2001-Fall 2005

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Undergraduate Graduate Enrollments
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Undergraduate Graduate Enrollments and Degrees
Awarded
49/1 12/0 3/0
48/5 16/1 5/0
33/5 7/1 9/1
45/3 13/0 5/1
CE/EE BS MS PhD
Projected combined PhDs 10
2001/02
2002/03
2003/04
2005/05
2005/06
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Fall 2001
Total
Grads
Under-grads
Senior
Junior
Soph
Fresh
242
52
190
75
35
30
50
Civil Engineering
31
5
26
9
5
4
8
Environmental Engineering
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Fall 2002
Fresh Soph Junior Senior Under-grads Grads Total
Civil Engineering 71 42 48 64 225 57 282
Environmental Engineering 6 3 5 10 24 2 26
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Fall 2003
Fresh Soph Junior Senior Under-grads Grads Total
Civil Engineering 103 44 51 74 272 69 341
Environmental Engineering 8 4 5 9 26 6 32
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Fall 2004
Fresh Soph Junior Senior Under-grads Grads Total
Civil Engineering 60 75 63 82 280 67 347
Environmental Engineering 8 9 4 5 25 9 34
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Fall 2005
Fresh Soph Junior Senior Under-grads Grads Total
Civil Engineering 78 51 90 93 312 60 372
Environmental Engineering 7 5 6 5 23 10 33
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Research

• Active research in the areas of
• Transportation Systems modeling, logistics,
  freight and fleet management, urban systems
  analysis
• Structures Earthquake engineering, experimental
  modal analysis, intelligent control, sensors and
  health monitoring, reliability and risk analysis
• Water Resources, Hydrology and Environmental
  Engineering computational and environmental
  fluid dynamics, flood mitigation, subsurface
  solute transport, water reclamation, waste
  treatment processes, regional hydro-climate
  modeling, arid-zone hydrology, and hydrologic
  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 the Department
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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Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing
Improve hydrologic prediction through development
and refinement of hydrologic models and use of
advanced observations, particularly from remote
sensing sources
Develop mathematical algorithms capable of
estimating precipitation both from space-based
and in-situ observations at spatial and temporal
resolutions relevant to hydrologic applications,
particularly in the semi arid environments
Develop decision support tools for generating and
evaluating a variety of hydro-meteorologic and
hydro-climatologic information required by the
water resources management community
Contribute to the education of well trained
hydrologists and water resources engineers
responsive to the growing needs of public and
private sectors at the state, national and
international levels.
http//chrs.web.uci.edu/
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing,
University of California, Irvine
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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 Biology        Environmental
Health, Science, and Policy        Environmental
Toxicology        Planning, Policy, and Design
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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 foster research, 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 of Management, 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).
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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 adding a soil pit completed on March
  31, 2005 with 1.2 M funded by the campus in
  2003/2004.
• Light Structures Test Facility
• under Development
• Remote Sensing Laboratory
• under Development in Cal(IT)2 Building
• Nano Composite Materials Laboratory
• under 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. Heiertz
Director of Engineering and Planning
Irvine Ranch Water District
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CEE Affiliates Course Support

• CEE 55 Land Measurements and Analysis -
  Introduction to surveying and land measurements.
  Use of the level and transit equipment, legal
  descriptions, subdivisions, topographic surveys,
  mapping vertical and horizontal 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 review information necessary to apply for
  certification as an Engineer-in-Training (EIT).
• CEE 181 A-B-C Senior Design Practicum Team
  designs a land development project including
  infrastructural, environmental, circulation
  aspects. Focus on traffic impact studies, design
  of road layouts, geometry, signals, geotechnical
  and hydrological analysis, design of structural
  elements, economic analysis. Oral/written interim
  and final design reports.

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Dedicated Staff
Support for research proposal development
Administration of appointments and personnel
cases for faculty and researchers Administration
of student applications, registrations, record
archiving, class room assignment, Lecturer,TA,
and Reader appointments Administration and
Management of Departmental budget and extramural
awards. ABET, Senate Review And many other
details
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For More Information

• HSSoE-
• CIVIL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING WEBSITE
  http//www.eng.uci.edu/dept/cee/