Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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.”
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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.
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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
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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
Analytical 24
E.g. Increasing Detection Limits
Membranes in Microfiltration
Johnson
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Impact response of bridges
Yang
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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)
20%
15%
Salaries:
10%
5%
0%
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Welcome!!
Contact me at:
At.papagiannakis@utsa.edu
(210) 458 7517