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Professor Rani Elhajjar chairs the civil and environmental engineering department whose mission is “to educate students to become civil engineering professionals who plan, design, build, and manage the infrastructure systems needed for a modern urban society and the environment.”

The teaching interests of the full-time faculty span most technical aspects of the civil and environmental engineering professions:

  • Construction materials & green design
  • Engineering mechanics, mechanics of materials & structures
  • Environmental engineering & sustainability
  • Geotechnical engineering, foundation design, pavement materials
  • Mechanics of materials
  • Transportation & traffic engineering
  • Structural analysis & design, earthquake engineering
  • Water resources, hydrology and hydraulics, environmental fluid mechanics
Industrial Advisory Committee Members

Advisory Council

  • Clayton Cloutier, CSD Structural Engineers
  • John Corbin, US Federal Highway Administration
  • Terry Giles, Giles Engineering Associates, Inc.
  • Roberto Gutierriez, Wisconsin Department of Transportation
  • Nick Passint, Spancrete Group
  • Laura Powers, YA Engineering Services
  • Steve Rech, GRAEF-USA
  • Mathew Tharanayil, Bloom Companies, LLC
  • Steven Wurster, Ruekert-Mielke
  • Julie Zimdars, Ramboll

UWM Faculty/Staff Support

  • Rani El Hajjar, UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science
  • Mark Gottlieb, UWM Institute for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation
  • Xiao Qin, UWM Institute for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation
  • Habib Tabatabai, UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science
Contact
Contact Info: ceas-cem@uwm.edu

Street Address
College of Engineering & Applied Science
3200 North Cramer Street
Milwaukee, WI 53211

Mailing Address
College of Engineering & Applied Science
P.O. Box 784
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0784

Faculty

Sarah Blackowski
  • Assistant Professor of Engineering Education, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Andy Dressel
  • Scientist II, Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • Lab Manager, Bicycle and Motorcycle Engineering Research Laboratory, EMS W301
Rani Elhajjar
  • Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Department Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andrew Graettinger
  • Associate Dean for Research, Engineering & Applied Science Office of the Dean
Sam Helwany
  • Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jin Li
  • Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Qian Liao
  • Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
faculty image xiao qin
  • Lawrence E. Sivak '71 Professorship
  • Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Director, Institute for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation (IPIT)
  • Founder and Director, Safe and Smart Traffic Lab
Adeeb Rahman
  • Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tom Shi
  • Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • Founder and Director, Automated, Connected & Electric Mobility Systems Lab
Konstantin Sobolev
  • Lawrence E. Sivak '71 Faculty Fellowship
  • Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Habib Tabatabai
  • Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Director, Structural Engineering Lab
Hani Titi
  • Lawrence E. Sivak Faculty Fellowship
  • Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
faculty member yin wang
  • Lawrence E. Sivak '71 Professorship
  • Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jian Zhao
  • Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering