Civil Engineering Research

Recent Research

▼ Reinventing Rural Wastewater Management to Improve Water Quality (and Public Health) in Alabama

Agency: US Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. Kevin White

▼ Parking Lot BioInfiltration Swale Implementation on USA Campus in the Upper Three Mile Creek Watershed

Agency: Alabama Department of Environmental Management/USEPA
Dr. Kevin White

▼ Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning

Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dr. Bret Webb

▼ Evaluating the Capacity of Natural and Nature-Based Features to Reduce Coastal Storm Hazards

Agency: US Army Corps of Engineers
Dr. Bret Webb

▼ Green Infrastructure Techniques for Coastal Highway Resilience

Agency: US Department of Transportation
Dr. Bret Webb

▼ Fowl River Marsh Health Study

Agency: Mobile Bay National Estuary Program (National Fish and Wildlife Foundation)
Dr. Bret Webb

▼ Little Lagoon Extended Monitoring and Research

Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Bret Webb

▼ Development of the ALDOT Older Driver Safety Summit Program

Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Samantha Islam

▼ Evaluation of Safety Effects of Sight Distance Restrictions on Vertical Curves: A Proof of Concept Study

Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Samantha Islam

▼ Development of Safety Performance Functions (SPF) and Part C Crash Modification Factors (CMF) for Rural Local Roads in Alabama

Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Samantha Islam

▼ The Value of Open Space as a Waterfront Use: a Mixed Methods Study on the Gulf Coast

Agency: Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium
Dr. Samantha Islam

▼ Driven Precast Prestressed Concrete (PPC) Pile Design and Construction Optimization

Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDoT) Research Bureau; Joint Project with University of Alabama
Dr. Eric Steward

▼ Driven pile setup and LRFD resistance factor calibration in Mississippi soils

Agency: Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT);
Dr. Eric Steward

▼ Verification of WBUZPILE Designed Methodology and the Development of a LRFD Driven Pile Resistance Factor Calibration for Alabama Soils

Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDoT)
Dr. Eric Steward

▼ Dilemma Zone Protection (DZP) System - Characterizing Driver Behavior and Optimizing DZP Boundaries

Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Min-Wook Kang

▼ Flashing Yellow Arrow (FYA) Left Turn Phasing by Time-Of-Day - Design and Operational Guidelines

Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Min-Wook Kang

▼ DZP System Pilot Study: Implementation of DZP Systems at High-Speed, High-Risk Signalized Intersections in Rural Alabama

Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Min-Wook Kang

▼ Development of a Roadway Congestion/Safety Improvement Too based on Surrogate Safety Assessment Model (SSAM)

Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Min-Wook Kang

▼ Post-2017 Hurricane Season Assessment of Critical Beach Access Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

Agency: University of South Alabama Research and Scholarly Development Grant
Dr. Stephanie Smallegan

▼ Life cycle cost analyses of adaptive strategies on Dauphin Island to rising sea levels

Agency: University of South Alabama Center for Environmental Resiliency
Dr. Stephanie Smallegan

▼ Building sea-level rise and flood resilience capacity in the northern Gulf through students and teachers

Agency: National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program
Dr. Stephanie Smallegan

▼ Evaluation of Bio-based Graphene Reinforced Asphalt Mixture

Agency: USA - Faculty Development Council Grant Program
Dr. Shenghua Wu

▼ Pavement Surface Treatments for Ice-Prone Locations in the Illinois Highway System

Agency: Illinois Department of Transportation
Dr. Shenghua Wu

▼ Integrating Team-based Learning in Improving Technical Writing Skill for STEM Students

Agency: TBLC
Dr. Shenghua Wu

▼ Pile Driving Vibration Monitoring of the Future Mobile River Bridge Project

Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. John Cleary