Graduate Program
Civil & Environmental Engineering

Faculty

• Lisa Aultmann-Hall
  Director
  Professor Aultmann-Hall is director of the UVM Transportation Center. Her areas of expertise include travel route choice and tailpipe emissions, transportation planning, freight transportation, bicycle transportation, traffic safety, and geographic information systems in transportation. Find out more...
• Arne Bomblies
  Professor Arne Bomblies' global research is expanding the boundaries and reach of traditional scientific research and has the potential to effect worldwide change. His goal is to understand how the environment influences malaria transmission. Find out more...
• Mandar Dewoolkar
  Associate Professor
  Professor Dewoolkar's research focuses on: soil dynamics and earthquake engineering; dams and embankments, retaining structures, and foundations; and physical and numerical modeling. He conducts his research in the laboratory, in-situ, as well as performing field testing. Find out more...
• Nancy Hayden
  Associate Professor
  Professor Hayden is particularly interested in incorporating ecology, systems thinking, and service learning into engineering curricula. Her areas of expertise include: systems thinking and engineering education; ecological and sustainable practices related to water and wastewater treatment; water resources and drinking water source protection; treatment of soil, groundwater, and wastewater; and remediation of DNAPL contaminated soil and groundwater. Find out more...
• Eric Hernandez
  Assistant Professor
  Professor Hernandez' areas of expertise include structural dynamics, seismic analysis and design, probabilistic risk assessment, structural monitoring, digital signal processing, optimal estimation and system identification. His research focuses in developing robust signal processing algorithms for detection, estimation, monitoring and assessment of adverse changes in structural and mechanical systems.
• Jane Hill
  Assistant Professor
  Professor Hill is director of the Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Lab whose research seeks to measure, predict, and — in some cases — exploit the microbes that impact our health and environment. This research focuses on three areas: pathogen transport (in people, pipes, and the subsurface); nutrient cycling (organic phosphorus in water and watersheds); and biotechnology (biosensor development and enzyme discovery). Find out more...
• Britt Holmén
  Associate Professor
  Professor Holmén's areas of expertise include particle interface chemistry, airborne particle emissions and processes, herbicide gas/particle partitioning, lidar remote sensing, transportation and air quality, and nonpoint source emissions. Her research focuses on contaminant transport processes in air and soil, with an emphasis on conducting field measurements. Find out more...
• Jeff Laible
  Professor
  Professor Laible's areas of expertise are computational modeling in biomechanics, specifically spine mechanics and modeling of the intervetebral disc, a poroelastic, chemical, electical,and magnetic problem. His research also includes the computational modeling of environmental problems, specifically lake ocean and stream hydrodynamics and transport.
• Brian Lee
  Assistant Professor
  Professor Lee is an international researcher with expertise in agent-based analysis and empirical modeling who has keen interests in multimodal transport, and a record of interdisciplinary collaborations on policy-relevant projects. His joint efforts with researchers have created advances in modeling the complex interactions between transportation and land use. Find out more...
• George Pinder
  Professor
  Professor Pinder performs research activities in the Research Center for Groundwater Remediation Design (RCGRD), which is dedicated to the creation and dissemination of knowledge on computer-based technology that is designed to achieve least-cost solutions to contamination problems. Professor Pinder's areas of expertise include groundwater behavior, numerical modeling, and experimental studies of multiphase media. Find out more...
• Donna Rizzo
  Assistant Professor
  Dr. Rizzo's research uses geostatistics and computational techniques, including artificial neural networks (ANNs), to solve problems in diverse areas such as groundwater remediation, medical imaging, and disease prediction in crops. Find out more...