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August 2009

Civil and Environmental Engineering

by
Tom Papagiannakis PhD PE
CEE Professor and Dept. Chair

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What Civil Engineers Do?
ASCE defines Civil Engineering as:
“The profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and
physical sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is
applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize economically, the
materials and forces of nature for the progressive well-being of
humanity in creating, improving, and protecting the environment;
in providing facilities for community living, industry, and
transportation; and in providing structures for the use of
humankind.”

Civils built quality of life!! 2


Programs Offered
 BS in Civil Engineering
 MS in Civil Engineering (courses+thesis)
 Masters in Civil Engineering (courses only)
 PhD in Environmental Sciences and
Engineering

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Main BS Program Objectives
Produce graduates who:
 Are prepared to enter the civil engineering practice and
continue at levels of increasing professional responsibility.
 Will endeavor to become licensed professional engineers.
 Will continue their professional development through
participation and leadership in professional organizations.

 Are capable of pursuing life-long learning.

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CEE Faculty
 Dr. Murad Abu-Farsakh  Dr. Chowdhury (SWRI)
 Dr. Alberto Arroyo  Dr. Morrow (SWRI retired)
 Dr. Manuel Diaz
 Dr. Samer Dessouky
 Dr. Richard French
 Dr. Drew Johnson
 Dr. Xiaofeng Liu
 Dr. Tom Papagiannakis
 Dr. Ruoting Pei
 Dr. Sazzad Bin-Shafique
 Dr. Hatim Sharif
 Dr. Heather Shipley
 Dr. Mijia Yang
 Dr. Jose Weissmann
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CEE Faculty Expertise

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The CEE Labs

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Structures Lab

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Environmental Labs

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Geo-Materials Lab

Nationally Accredited Lab

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CAD Room

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New labs (AET Building)
 Hydraulics
 Bioenvironmental

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Advising
 Academic Advisors
 COE Staff advisors
 Look under:
www.//engineering.utsa.edu/CE/links.html

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Enrollment
 Undergraduates:
 450+ (80th percentile nation-wide)
 Graduates:
 MSCE: 8 full time 12 part-time
 ESE PhD: 12 full time 15 part-time

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Faculty Research Background;
Examples

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AC Microstructure Modeling
Load
Dynamic Loading

Papagiannakis
Time

Collimator
(window) Specimen

Detector
X-ray Source 18
Approach
Load
Dynamic Loading

Time
Simple Performance Test

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Weissmann

2030 Commission
Committee Recommendations - Bridges

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Pavement Damage from
Wide-Base Tires
Dessouky
 Quantify pavement damage due to different tire and axle configurat-ions
based on numerical modeling (FEM).

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Retaining walls in high
plasticity/expansive clays

Shafique
 Collaborative project with TAMU
 The horizontal pressure on vertical
retaining wall from the expansive soil will
be evaluated.
 Finite element model will be developed
to understand the stress on wall.
 A guideline will be provided to TXDOT for
the design of soil nail, tie-back, and
drilled shaft retaining walls in expansive
soil

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Modeling Flash Floods
Sharif
 Flash flooding in urbanized areas is
a serious problem
 New technology: radar-rainfall
estimation and physically-based
hydrologic models provide a
potential solution to the flood
prediction problem
 Research models has shown
success in forecasting of convective
rainfall
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Use of nanomaterials
to clean water
Membranes Shipley
E.g. water treatment

Adsorbents
E.g contaminant removal

Oxidants
E.g Disinfection

Catalysts
E.g. Industrial Application

Sensing
E.g. Water Quality

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E.g. Increasing Detection Limits
Membranes in Microfiltration
Johnson

 Fouling in membrane microfiltration


 Membrane Surface Modifications
 Membrane o2 transfer for wastewater treatment
 Membrane methane recovery from coal seams for
energy utilization
Membrane
 Membrane treatment of indoor air surface
fouled with
iron
precipitates

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Impact response of bridges
Yang

Before impact without sandwich protection

After impact without sandwich protection


Diaphragms help to redistribute
the impact load to the whole bridge
system
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Exposing Undergraduates to Research
 There are many opportunities to work in one
of our labs and get paid.
 Get a feel for graduate education and
research

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CE Student Society Activities
 ASCE Student Chapter
 Concrete canoe
 Bridge competition
 ITE Student Chapter
 TXPE
 HSPE
 EWB

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Performance of Grads (1997-2007)

Type of Job: Licensed:

Industry 12.12% EIT-54.54%


Education 3.03% PE -27.27%
Manufacturing 9.09%
Consulting 54.54% 30%
Management 15.15%
25%

20%

15%
Salaries:
10%

5%

0%

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Welcome!!

Contact me at:
At.papagiannakis@utsa.edu
(210) 458 7517

San Juan Islands, WA 30

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