Faculty
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Kathleen Smits, Ph.D., P.E.
- Department Chair of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Solomon Professor for Global Development
- Senior Fellow in Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
- Primary research areas: energy and the environment and contaminant transport
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John Easton, Ph.D.
- Associate Chair of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Clinical Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Primary research areas: engineering education and water quality
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Khaled Abdelghany, Ph.D.
- Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Fellow in Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
- Member of Transportation Research Board Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing
- Primary research areas: multimodal transportation systems modeling, analysis, and simulation and cloud computing and real-time decision support systems
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Usama El Shamy, Ph.D.
- Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Primary research areas: fluid-soil-structure interaction and geothermal energy
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Zhong Lu, Ph.D.
- Shuler-Foscue Chair
- Professor of Earth Sciences
- Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (by Courtesy)
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Nicos Makris, Ph.D.
- Addy Family Centennial Professor of Civil Engineering
- Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Primary research areas: structural/earthquake engineering and applied mechanics/dynamics
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Barbara Minsker, Ph.D, P.E.
- Bobby B. Lyle Professor of Leadership and Global Entrepreneurship
- Senior Fellow in Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
- Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Professor of Computer Science (by Courtesy)
- Primary research areas: urban sustainability and resilience and infrastructure equity
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Reza Moghimi, Ph.D.
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Primary research areas: structural engineering and earthquake engineering
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Andrew Quicksall, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Janille Smith-Colin, Ph.D., P.E.
- Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Primary research areas: transportation impacts on social determinants of health and equity-based analysis of multi-modal transportation systems
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Brett Story, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Primary research areas: structural monitoring and evaluation and railroad engineering
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Halit Üster, Ph.D.
- Professor of Operations Research & Engineering Management
- Fellow in Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
- Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (by Courtesy)
- Primary research areas: network optimization and applied and computational optimization with applications in transportation/logistics, emergency response, bioenergy supply networks, closed loop supply chains, and telecommunications
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Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Ph.D., RIBA, LeedAP
- Clinical Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Director of Sustainability and Development Program
- Director of Initiative for Spatial Literacy (GIS@SMU)
- Fellow in Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
- Primary research areas: creativity and design in engineering education and sustainable rural development