UC Irvine Civil & Environmental Engineering

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

2. Civil Engineering Program (BS – CE) • Environmental Engineering Program (BS – EE) UC Irvine Civil & Environmental Engineering 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

3. Academic Program Scope Graduate Degree Programs • MS – CEE • PhD – CEE • Structures • Transportation • Hydrology and Water Resources • Environmental Engineering

4. 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 **Recipient of NSF Career Award

5. 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

6. Faculty CourtesyAppointment • Jay Famiglietti – (Earth System Science) • Farghalli A. Mohamed – (Chemical Engineering & Materials Science) Adjunct • Xiaogang Gao • Kuo-lin Hsu • Bisher Imam • Ann Sardo

7. Lecturers (Most Recent 2 Years) • James Marca • Zoltan Mester • Craig Rindt • Ayman Salama • Kathiravetpill Sivathasan • Eric Vogler • Marwan Youssef • Steve Bucknam • Winston Chai • Jim Ewing • Houwei Fang • Charles Hamilton • Ahmad Kamrany • Adnan Maiah 14 Lecturers

8. 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 Industry Awards Lizhi Sun – Honda Initiation Award (2006)

9. US NEWS & WORLD REPORT RANKINGS America’s Best Graduate Schools 2007 UCI Program20062007 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

10. Undergraduate & GraduateEnrollments

11. 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.

12. 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,

13. 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

14. 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 EngineeringEarth System SciencesEcology and Evolutionary BiologyEnvironmental Health, Science, and PolicyEnvironmental ToxicologyPlanning, Policy, and Design

15. 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).

16. Research Awards 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006* CEE $2,397,588 $4,930,082 $8,193,853

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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.

21. 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

22. For More Information HSSoE- CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERINGWEBSITE:http://www.eng.uci.edu/dept/cee/