Kiewit Center for Infrastructure and Transportation

The Kiewit Center Researchers

 

S. Ashford (Civil Engineering)

Earthquake and coastal hazards, full-scale modeling of soil-foundation-structure interaction, seismic site response, coastal erosion, and slope stability

M. Bailey (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Scientific visualization, high performance computer graphics, solid freeform fabrication, geometric modeling, and computer aided design and analysis

A. Barbosa (Civil Engineering)
Performance-based earthquake engineering, nonlinear structural analysis, structural reliability and risk analysis, structural dynamics, multi-hazard loss estimation, assessment of robustness and resilient design of building and bridge structures, high-throughput computing, virtual reality modeling of engineering structures

K. Boston (Forest Engineering)
Forest transportation planning, forest road design and management systems and supply chain management for the primary forest industry

C.A. Bell (Civil Engineering)
Pavement evaluation, vehicle monitoring and management

D.T. Cox (Civil Engineering)
Geotechnical earthquake engineering, ports and harbors, deep foundations, engineering properties of soils

K. Dixon (Civil Engineering)
Transportation design, operations, and safety with particular emphasis on creating a transportation infrastructure that serves all prospective users

T. Doolen (Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering)
Manufacturing systems design, lean manufacturing, work group effectiveness, mobile technology in education, error management and error reduction, survey design and methodology, statistical quality control

J.A. Gambatese (Civil Engineering)
Construction safety, constructability of the design, the design-construction interrelationship, life cycle properties of constructed facilities, and temporary construction structures

M.C. Haller (Civil Engineering)
Remote sensing (microwave radar & optical) of nearshore breaking waves; wave modeling and shoreline response near complex bathymetric features; physical/numerical modeling of rip currents and rip current instabilities

C. Higgins (Civil Engineering)
Passive structural control, structural testing, steel structures and connections, earthquake and wind engineering, repair and retrofit of structures, high-performance materials, historic structures and materials

D. Hill (Civil Engineering)
Experimental fluid mechanics, visual imaging techniques, computational tidal and wave modeling

K.M. Hunter-Zaworski (Civil Engineering)
Aviation infrastructure, railway engineering, intelligent transportation systems, transportation systems and planning, and public transportation

D. Hurwitz (Civil Engineering)
Traffic engineering, transportation safety, driving and bicycling simulation, human factors, and the implications of user behavior and human factors in the design and innovation of transportation system

J.H. Ideker (Civil Engineering)
Concrete durability, early-age properties of cement-based materials and the pursuit of high-performance civil engineering materials

J. Istok (Civil Engineering)
In-situ aquifer characterization technologies

D. Kim (Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering)
Applied operations research, production system design and optimization, performance evaluation of production systems, scheduling heuristics, discrete event dynamic systems, facility layout of engineering organizations

R.D. Layton (Civil Engineering)
Transportation systems analysis; transportation facility design; traffic operations and control; highway safety; transportation energy and economics; and environmental impact of transportation

A. Leon (Civil Engineering)
Transient flows, real-time control of complex hydraulic systems, computational fluid dynamics ), flood control and physical modeling of hydraulic structures

V. Lesser (Statistics)
Sampling, survey methodology, environmental statistics, applied statistics

R.L. Logendran (Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering)
Production planning and control, cellular manufacturing, group scheduling, routing and scheduling, flexible manufacturing systems, integration of design and manufacturing, applied operations research

J.R. Lundy (Civil Engineering)
Properties and uses of portland cement and polymer-modified concretes; utilization of waste materials in construction; asphalt material characterization, composites, and the design, specification, construction, and rehabilitation of pavements

W.G. McDougal (Civil Engineering)
Physical modeling, coastal structures, floating breakwaters, shoreline stability, coastal flooding

B.S. McMullen (Economics)
Transportation economics & policy, the economics of governmental regulation/deregulation issues

R. Metoyer (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Computer graphics, computer animation, interactive 3D environments

T.H. Miller (Civil Engineering)
Earthquake engineering, timber structures and cold-formed steel structures

T. Minoura (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Web-based GIS/database applications

M.J. Olsen (Civil Engineering)
Analyze hazards in civil engineering, focusing on applications of terrestrial laser scanning and geographic information systems (GIS) to earthquake, liquefaction, and coastal hazards

T.K. Plant ( Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Optoelectronics, fiber Bragg gratings and sensors, microfabrication

D. Porter (Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering)
Information systems engineering, wireless communications, intelligent transportation systems, automatic data collection, manufacturing systems, supply chain engineering, e-commerce

W.E. Rochefort (Chemical Engineering)
Polymer rheology and molecular characterization, polymer processing, rheology of complex and reacting systems, fluid mechanics and extensional flow of polymer solutions

D.F. Rogge (Construction Engineering)
Estimating and cost control; planning and scheduling; construction labor productivity; asphalt materials; alternative methods for project delivery; and construction computer applications

T.V. Scholz (Construction Engineering)
Civil engineering materials, construction equipment and methods, pavement design, mechanistic analysis of pavement structures, performance-related and performance-based specifications, warranties, quality control/quality assurance, pavement management systems, geographical information systems, life cycle cost analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, engineering software applications development

M. Scott (Civil Engineering)
Nonlinear structural analysis and dynamics, structural response sensitivity, object-oriented software design, parallel computing, numerical methods

J. Sessions (Forest Engineering)
Wood transportation, optimal bucking practices, timber harvest scheduling, timber supply, scheduling of silviculture practices, fire hazard reduction, logging mechanics, international forestry

D. Sillars (Construction Engineering)
Interorganizational relationships in the construction industry; cultural factors in facility delivering; project delivery alternatives; and strategic organizational structuring at the project and enterprise level

A.W. Stuedlein (Civil Engineering)
Instrumentation and performance of full-scale, constructed geotechnical structures, ground improvement and soil reinforcement for foundations and retaining structures, behavior of deep and shallow foundations, soil variability and geotechnical reliability

D. Trejo (Civil Engineering)
Design and development of materials and systems for efficient construction processes and products that allow for accelerated and durable construction

H. Yeh (Civil Engineering)
Environmental Fluid Mechanics, ocean and coastal wave phenomena, flow-structure interactions, tsunami induced scour, wind turbulence, structure control (tuned liquid dampers), physical processes in lakes and oceans and tsunami hazard mitigation

S. Yim (Civil Engineering)
Structural engineering, reliability analysis, random structural dynamics