Welcome to CEE

Balasingam Muhunthan
Professor

Research: Constitutive modeling of geomaterials, computational geomechanics, microstructure characterization of geomaterials, debris flows, transport in porous media, computational geomechanics and fundamentals of soil behavior: critical state soil mechanics, micromechanics of soils, physico-chemical behavior of clays.
Teaching: Geotechnical Engineering, Advanced Experimental Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Foundations, Soil and Site Improvement, Numerical Modeling of Geomaterials, In situ Testing and Field Instrumentation muhuntha@wsu.edu

Thomas Papagiannakis
Adjunct Professor

Research: Pavement-vehicle interaction, dynamic material behavior, bituminous technology, micromechanical analysis of asphalt concretes, weigh-in-motion, pavement performance.
Teaching: Pavement Design, Transportation Engineering, Highway Materials, Engineering Administration, Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Administration, Advanced Pavement Analysis AT.Papagiannakis@utsa.edu

Adrian Rodriguez-Marek
Associate Professor

Research: Geotechnical earthquake engineering, site response analysis, performance based design of geotechnical structures, constitutive modeling and transport properties of geomaterials.
Teaching: Experimental Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Foundation Engineering, Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering
adrian@wsu.edu

Shihui Shen
Director of WCAT and Assistant Professor

Research:
Asphalt material characterization and mix design; asphalt binder rheology and modeling; pavement management, maintenance, and rehabilitation; energy mechanism for material characterization (crack damage, healing, etc.)
Teaching: Pavement design
sshen2@wsu.edu

Kitae Nam
WCAT Manager and Research Associate

Research: Asphalt Binder Rheology and Modeling, Microstructure Characterization of Civil Engineering Materials Using X-ray CT Analysis Techniques, Asphalt Mixture Design and Characterization, Advanced Laboratory Testing, Pavement Design, and Field Performance Evaluation, Pavement Management Systems, Statistical Analysis, Modeling, and Computer Applications in Civil Engineering
knam@wsu.edu