Faculty

• 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

ksmits@smu.edu

• Associate Chair of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Clinical Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Primary research areas: engineering education and water quality

easton@lyle.smu.edu

• 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

khaled@lyle.smu.edu

• Herman Brown Chair of Mechanical Engineering
• Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (by Courtesy)
• Member of US National Academy of Engineering
• Primary research area: large scale simulation, high performance computing and computational modeling of CO2 sequestration, geothermal systems, H2 storage

adogru@smu.edu

• Professor of Law
• Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (by Courtesy)
• Area of expertise include Energy Law, Environmental Law, Just Energy Transition on Tribal Lands, Mining Law, Natural Resources, Oil and Gas, Property Law

mehrman@smu.edu

• Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Primary research areas: fluid-soil-structure interaction and geothermal energy

uelshamy@lyle.smu.edu

• Shuler-Foscue Chair
• Professor of Earth Sciences
• Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (by Courtesy)

zhonglu@smu.edu

• Addy Family Centennial Professor of Civil Engineering
• Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Primary research areas: structural/earthquake engineering and applied mechanics/dynamics

nmakris@mail.smu.edu

• 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

minsker@smu.edu

• Clinical Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Primary research areas: structural engineering and earthquake engineering

rmoghimi@smu.edu

• Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

aquicksall@lyle.smu.edu

• Herman Brown Chair of Mechanical Engineering
• Professor of Mechanical Engineering

• Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (by Courtesy)

• Primary research areas: subsurface energy systems (fossil fuels, and geothermal) and greenhouse gas containment and mitigation

  salehis@mail.smu.edu

• 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

jsmithcolin@smu.edu

• Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Primary research areas: structural monitoring and evaluation and railroad engineering

bstory@lyle.smu.edu

• 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

uster@smu.edu

• 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

jzarazaga@smu.edu