Faculty Areas of Expertise
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Daniel A. Badoe 931-372-3490 | dbadoe@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 434 | Profile
Professor, Transportation Engineering
Research Interests: Urban travel demand modeling; transportation data collection; travel behavior analysis.
- Steven Click
Associate Professor, Transportation Engineering
Research Interests: Traffic signal design; timing; operations; and analysis; traffic signal system design; timing; operations; and analysis; non-traditional intersection design; operations; and analysis; non-traditional interchange design; operations; and analysis; highway traffic simulation modeling.
931-372-6464 | sclick@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 350 | Profile - L. K. Crouch
Professor, Construction Materials
Research Interests: Construction materials; aggregates; portland cement concrete; flowable fill; bituminous materials.
931-372-3196 | lcrouch@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 316 | Profile - Tania Datta 931-372-3446 | tdatta@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 333 | Profile
Associate Professor, Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Biological Wastewater Treatment Process and Design; Urban Water Quality Management; Environmental Microbiology; Bioenergy Production through Anaerobic Processes; Resource Recovery from Organic Waste Streams; Sustainable Decision Making; Role of Microorganisms in Natural Aquatic Ecosystems; Developing Low-Cost Technologies for Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries.
- Craig Henderson
Professor, Structural Engineering
Research Interests: Masonry; concrete and steel testing and design; structural dynamics and earthquake engineering; computational structural modeling.
931-372-3062 | chenderson@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 417 | Profile - Tim Huff 931-372-3605 | thuff@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 424 | Profile
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Earthquake engineering; seismic design of structures; ground motion selection and modification for structural analysis; nonlinear analysis of structures in practice; seismic isolation; bridge design.
- Sharon Huo
Associate Provost, Professor of Structural Engineering
Research Interests: Structural analysis; reinforced concrete design; prestressed concrete design; structural steel design; bridge design.
931-372-3463 | xhuo@tntech.edu | Derryberry Hall (DBRY) 204 | Profile - Alfred Kalyanapu
Associate Professor, Water Resources
Research Interests: Climate impacts; computational hydraulics and hydrology; hydraulic/hydrologic modeling urban water management; regional scale flood modeling and simulation.
931-372-3561 | akalyanapu@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 334 | Profile - Jane Liu
Professor, Structural Mechanics
Research Interests: Composite materials; vibration analysis; plates & shells; computational mechanics symbolic computer systems in engineering applications; computational algebraic geometry in nonlinear structural analysis.
931-372-3256 | jliu@tntech.edu | Prescott Hal (PRSC) l 432 | Profile - Benjamin Mohr
Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Professor of Construction Materials
Research Interests: Durability; microstructure; and chemistry of cement-based materials; early-age behavior of cement and concrete; fiber-reinforced concrete; supplementary cementitious materials.
931-372-3454 | bmohr@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 216 | Profile - Guillermo Ramirez
Associate Professor, Structural Mechanics
Research Interests: Theoretical and computational mechanics; mathematical formulation and corresponding computer implementation to describe the electro-mechanical behavior of solids under different types of environments.
931-372-3261 | gramirez@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 415 | Profile - Daniel VandenBerge 931-372-3257 | dvandenberge@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 332 | Profile
Associate Professor, Geotechnical Engineering
Research Interests: Rapid drawdown analysis; behavior of compacted clays; fully softened shear strength; levee seepage; dam failures; geotechnical reliability analyses; sustainable earth structures; engineering education.
- Lenly Weathers
Associate Professor, Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Transport of pollutants in the environment; transformation of chlorinated compounds; oxidized metals and other pollutants in anaerobic environments in the presence of metallic iron.
931-372-6539 | lweathers@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 339 | Profile
