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- Building Energy and Environments
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- Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Infrastructure Materials Engineering
- Mechanics, Uncertainty and Simulation in Engineering
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- Structural Engineering
- Sustainable Systems
- Transportation Engineering
News
How We Transport Water in Our Bodies Inspires New Water Filtration Method
A multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists has discovered a new method for water filtration that could have implications for a variety of technologies, such as desalination plants, breathable and protective fabrics, and carbon capture in gas separations. The research team, led by Manish Kumar in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, published their findings in the latest issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
CAEE Welcomes New Faculty Member Anca-Cristina Ferche
Anca-Cristina Ferche is the department's new Structural Engineering assistant professor.
June 19, 2019
Anca-Cristina Ferche will join the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in our Structural Engineering group in September 2020.
Ferche received her Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2012. She is currently working on completing her Ph.D. in Civil and Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada where she completed her Master of Applied Science in Structural Engineer in 2015.
Her research interests include analysis and performance assessment of deteriorated concrete infrastructure, nonlinear finite element analysis of reinforced concrete structures, advanced constitutive modeling and alkali-silica reaction effects on the behavior of reinforced concrete structures.
"I am thrilled to join the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. I look forward to contributing to its remarkable innovation-driven culture and to help address some of the complex challenges aging and deteriorating infrastructure pose in Texas and in North America," said Ferche.
CAEE Welcomes New Faculty Member Berkin Dortdivanlioglu
Dr. Berkin Dortdivanlioglu is the department's new Mechanics, Uncertainty and Simulation engineering assistant professor.
June 19, 2019
Dr. Berkin Dortdivanlioglu will join the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in January 2020.
Dortdivanlioglu recently completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University where he also received his M.S. He received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey in 2013.
He has been a graduate researcher in the Computational Micromechanics of Material Lab at Stanford University since 2013. His research primarily focuses on understanding smart materials, such as hydrogels, and harnessing structural and material instabilities observed in these complex media for emerging applications. Furthermore, he studies physical instabilities observed in soft and multi-functional materials by combining analytical, computational, and experimental approaches.
Dortdivanlioglu will be working within our Mechanics, Uncertainty and Simulation Engineering group and hopes to develop courses in areas such as stability of structures and mechanics of soft materials. His technical interest includes investigating dynamic shape-shifting and functional changes in soft natural materials, elucidating the complete interplay between responsive and multi-physics material with their stimuli as well as discovering new deformation modes and leveraging surface energetics and topology optimization for soft robotics.
"It is a pleasure to join the esteemed department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at UT Austin at such an exciting time. I eagerly look forward to starting a collaborative and interdisciplinary research program in the Mechanics, Uncertainty, and Simulation in Engineering group by integrating advanced experimental and computational techniques," said Dortdivanlioglu.
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