CEE Faculty
   
W. M. Kim Roddis, Ph.D., P.E.  |   roddis@gwu.edu
Professor and Chair

643 Academic Center | Phone (202) 994-4901 | Fax (202) 994-0127
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00-10:00 a.m.
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Specialty: Design, fabrication, and construction processes; structural applications of artificial intelligence and computer-aided design; fatigue and fracture in bridges; frame stability; and seismic steel connections.
   
Sameh S. Badie, Ph.D., P.E.  |   badies@gwu.edu
Assistant Professor

638 Academic Center | Phone (202) 994-8803 | Fax (202) 994-0127
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Area of Specialty: Advanced concrete materials (HPC), use of corrosion resistant reinforcement in reinforced concrete structures, application of prestressed concrete in buildings and bridges.

   
Kennerly H. Digges, Ph.D.  |   kdigges@aol.com
Research Professor

Virginia Campus | Phone (703) 726-8363 | Fax (703) 726-8359
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Area of Specialty: biomechanic and automotive safety.

   
Azim Eskandarian, D.Sc.  |   eska@gwu.edu
Professor

Virginia Campus | Phone (703) 726-8362 | Fax (703) 726-8359
630 Academic Center | Phone (202) 994-0532 | Fax (202) 994-0127

D.Sc., The George Washington University
Area of Specialty: intelligent system and neural networks, nonlinear finite element methods and dynamics simulation and modeling, with applications in transportation, vehicles, and safety.

   
Muhammad I. Haque, Ph.D., P.E.  |   mhaque@gwu.edu
Professor

637 Academic Center | Phone (202) 994-4964 | Fax (202) 994-0127
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 11:00 a.m.-Noon, Friday 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Ph.D., Colorado State University
Area of Specialty: finite element methods, computational methods in fluid and solid mechanics, hydraulics, water resources engineering.

   
Cing-Dao (Steve) Kan, Ph.D.  |   cdkan@gwu.edu
Associate Research Professor

Virginia Campus | Phone (703) 726-8365 | Fax (703) 726-8359
Ph.D., University of Maryland
Area of Specialty: Solid mechanics, structural analysis, finite element methods, computer simulation and modeling.

   
Khalid Mahmood, Ph.D., P.E.  |   kmahmood@gwu.edu
Professor

631 Academic Center | Phone (202) 994-3793 | Fax (202) 994-0127
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 12:30-2:30 p.m.
Ph.D., Colorado State University
Area of Specialty: Hydraulics, water resources, river mechanics, sedimentation engineering, physical and mathematical modeling.

   
Majid T. Manzari, Ph.D.  |   manzari@gwu.edu
Professor

635 Academic Center | Phone (202) 994-5970 | Fax (202) 994-0127
Office Hours: Mon 2:00-4:00 pm, Tue 2:00-3:00 pm, Wed. 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Ph.D., University of California-Davis
Area of Specialty: Soil mechanics, physical and numerical modeling of soil structures, constitutive modeling, geotechnical earthquake engineering.

   
Vahid Motevalli, Ph.D., P.E.  |   vahidm@gwu.edu
Associate Professor

640 Academic Center | Phone (202) 994-7152 | Fax (202) 994-0127
Staughton Hall, 2nd Floor | Phone (703) 726-8382 | Fax (703) 726-8359
Office Hours: Wednesday 12:00-1:00 p.m., Friday 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Ph.D., University of Maryland
Area of Specialty: Aviation and transportation safety, hybrid-electric vehicles, combustion and fire dynamics.

   
Rumana Riffat, Ph.D., P.E.  |   riffat@gwu.edu
Associate Professor

633 Academic Center | Phone (202) 994-5947 | Fax (202) 994-0127
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-3:30 p.m., Thursday 11:00 a.m.-Noon
Ph.D., Iowa State University
Area of Specialty: Anerobic biotransformation of petroleum hydrocarbons in wastewater, process kinetics, physical and chemical hazards at wastewater treatment plants.

   
Pedro F. Silva, Ph.D.  |   silvap@gwu.edu
Associate Professor

642 Academic Center | Phone (202) 994-7446 | Fax (202) 994-0127
Office Hours: Mon 3:00-5:00 p.m. Wed 3:00-5:00 p.m. Tue 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Ph.D., University of California at San Diego
Area of Specialty: Development of performance-based procedures for the seismic deisgn and retrofit of civil structures; blast resistance of structures; use of fiber-reinforced polymers for the structural rehabilitation of structures.

Dhafer Marzougui, D.Sc.  |   dmarzoug@ncac.gwu.edu
Assistant Research Professor

Research 1, Virginia Campus | Phone (703)726-8532 | Fax (703) 726-3530

D.Sc: The George Washington University
Area of Specialty: Computer modeling, particularly in analyzing vehicle crashes with roadside hardware. He has developed and validated several vehicle and roadside hardware computer models that are being used worldwide.




CEE Staff
   

Neil Commerce  |  neilc76@gwu.edu
Executive Associate

643 Academic Center | Phone (202) 994-4194 | Fax (202) 994-0127

 

   
 

Joyce Randolph  |   jr1595@gwu.edu
Executive Assistant

643 Academic Center | Phone (202) 994-2303 | Fax (202) 994-0127

   
 

Jeffress Joyce J. Jeffress  |  seajjj@gwu.edu
Graduate Records Coordinator

741 Academic Center | Phone (202) 994-5989 | Fax (202) 994-0238

 

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