Overview

Research Centers

Research Laboratories

CSEE Research Areas

• Computational Engineering Mechanics

• Construction Engineering and Management

• Earthquake Engineering

• Electronic Packaging

• Environmental Engineering

• Hydrosystems Engineering

• Geomechanics, Geotechnical, and Geoenvironmental Engineering

• Structural Engineering

Hydrosystems Engineering

Research in hydrosystems engineering focuses on the understanding, management, and protection of large-scale natural and engineered systems that store or convey water for drinking, recreation, and transportation.

Faculty

• Joseph Atkinson

• Igor Jankovic

• James Jensen

• Alan J. Rabideau

• Christina Tsai

Laboratories and research groups

• Great Lakes Program

• Groundwater Research Group

• Hydrology Research

Current projects

• Implementing a long-term plan to improve modeling capabilities for toxic chemicals in Lake Ontario: refinements to LOTOX2 atmospheric deposition processes and mercury submodel (Atkinson, Jensen)

• Real-time monitoring of land, lakes, and atmosphere from space-borne observations (Atkinson)

• Transport modeling to support algal bloom tracking for event monitoring and response management (Atkinson)

• Modeling support for load reduction strategies in Lake Ontario (Atkinson)

• Sediment transport in unsteady open-channel flow (Tsai)

• Quantitative assessment of the sources and transport of persistent organic pollutants in the Niagara River (Tsai)

• Sediment transport in the Buffalo River (Atkinson)

• Development and implementation of a virtual porous medium (Jankovic)

• A high-performance analytic element model: GIS interface, calibration tools, and application to the Niagara Falls region (Rabideau, Jankovic, Becker, Flewelling)

• A high-performance regional contaminant transport model (Rabideau, Jankovic, Van Benschoten)