Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Geotechnical and Transportation Faculty

The geotechnical and transportation faculty contribute to the civil engineering program a well-balanced expertise of fundamentals and practical experience.

Tae-Hyuk Kwon

Tae-Hyuk Kwon
Assistant Professor

Research: Energy geotechnology - CO2 sequestration, MEHR, and gas hydrates; wave-based techniques and smart sensor application to geo-engineering; fundamental bio-physico-chemo-geo processes in soils
Teaching: Geotechnical Engineering taehyuk.kwon@wsu.edu

Balasingam Muhunthan

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

       
       

Shihui Shen
Assistant Professor
Director of WCAT

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

Haifang Wen

Haifang Wen
Assistant Professor

Research:
Constitutive modeling of pavement materials; Recycled materials and byproducts utilization; Pavement evaluation and rehabilitation
haifang_wen@wsu.edu

       
       

 

 

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