Faculty
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Kathleen Smits, Ph.D., P.E.
- Department Chair, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Solomon Professor for Global Development
- Senior Fellow, Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
- Primary research areas are Energy and the Environment and Contaminant transport.
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John Easton, Ph.D.
- Associate Chair, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Clinical Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Primary Research Areas are Engineering Education and Water Quality
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Khaled Abdelghany, Ph.D.
- Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Fellow, Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
- Member, Transportation Research Board Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing
- Primary Research Areas are 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, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Primary Research Areas are Fluid-Soil-Structure Interaction and Geothermal Energy.
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Reza Moghimi, Ph.D.
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Primary Research Areas are Structural Engineering and Earthquake Engineering
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Nicos Makris, Ph.D.
- Addy Family Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering
- Primary Research Areas are 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 the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
- Primary Research Areas are Urban sustainability and resilience and Infrastructure equity.
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Janille Smith-Colin, Ph.D., P.E.
- Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Primary Research Areas are 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, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Primary Research Areas are Structural Monitoring and Evaluation and Railroad Engineering.
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Halit Üster, Ph.D.
- Professor (Courtesy Appointment)
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Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Ph.D., RIBA, LeedAP
- Clinical Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Director, Sustainability + Development Program
- Director, Initiative for Spatial Literacy (GIS@SMU)
- Fellow, Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
- Primary Research Areas are Creativity and design in Engineering Education and Sustainable Rural Development.
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Andrew Quicksall, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Zhong Lu, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Shuler-Foscue Chair
(Courtesy Appointment)