2015 Hurricane Season: College of Engineering Experts Available
Today marks the start of the 2015 Hurricane Season, and the LSU College of Engineering is home to experts on topics ranging from evacuations and coastal modeling to disaster response and structural engineering.
2015 Hurricane Season
Disaster Preparation/Management
Carol Friedland
Assistant Professor, Department of Construction Management
Areas of Expertise: Hurricane wind and storm surge damage assessment, vulnerability assessments, damage
modeling, applications of remote sensing for hurricane damage detection, structural
engineering.
Contact: 225-578-1155, friedland@lsu.edu
Evacuations
Brian Wolshon
Director, LSU Transportation Lab, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Areas of Expertise: Hurricane evacuations and major-event traffic scenarios, intelligent transportation
systems and traffic-flow analysis.
Contact: 225-578-5247, brian@rsip.lsu.edu
Storms/Climatology/Coastal Modeling
Q. Jim Chen
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Areas of Expertise: Coastal engineering, prediction of storm surge and ocean waves, numerical modeling
of costal processes, design of coastal structures.
Contact: 225-578-4911, qchen@lsu.edu
Environmental Impact of Disasters
John Pardue
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Elizabeth Howell Stewart Endowed Professor
Areas of Expertise: Fate and transport of chemical contaminants during hurricanes; passively treating
groundwater contaminated with chlorinated solvents in treatment wetlands; environmental
impacts; and investigating the uptake of desorption-resistant organic contaminants
by wetland plants.
Contact: (225) 578-8661 jpardue@lsu.edu
Scott C. Hagen
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Areas of Expertise: massively parallel, high performance computational modeling of ocean, coastal and
inland shallow water flows. His recent efforts expand into transport and ecological
modeling, particularly with respect to the coastal dynamics of sea level rise.
Structural Engineering
Aly-Mousaad Aly
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Area of expertise: Wind storm loads induced on the built environment
Contact: 225-578-6654, aly@lsu.edu
Michele Barbato
Assistant professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Area of Expertise: Structural engineering and dynamics
Contact: 225-578-8719, mbarbato@lsu.edu
Steve Cai
Edwin B. and Norma S. McNeil Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental
Engineering
Areas of Expertise: Bridge engineering, wind engineering, structural dynamics, structural performance
evaluation and rehabilitation.
Contact: 225-578-8898, cscai@lsu.edu
Dimitris Nikitopoulos
Alexis & Marguerite Voorhies Endowed Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical
Engineering
Area of Expertise: Fluid-structure interaction and wind-tunnel measurement and testing techniques
Contact: 225-578-5903, meniki@me.lsu.edu
Ayman Okeil
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Areas of Expertise: Bridge engineering, structural reliability, nondestructive testing and evaluation
of structures, structural rehabilitation and strengthening, nonlinear behavior of
concrete structures.
Contact: 225-578-7048, aokeil@lsu.edu
Disaster Response and Clean-Up
Marcio de Querioz
Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Areas of Expertise: Nonlinear control theory and application, Multi-agent systems, Robotics, Active magnetic
and mechanical bearings, Biological and biomedical system modeling and control
Contact: 225-578-8770, dequeiroz@me.lsu.edu
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