Graduate Catalog 1993-1994 College of Engineering Department of Civil Engineering Faculty in the Graduate Program HERBERT E. ALLEN, PH.D. (MICHIGAN), Professor: Water and sediment chemistry, heavy metal pollution. ROBERT A. DALRYMPLE, PH.D., P.E. (FLORIDA), Professor and Director, Center for Applied Coastal Research; also Professor, College of Marine Studies: Coastal engineering, coastal processes, hydrodynamics. CHIN P. HUANG, PH.D., P.E. (HARVARD), Distinguished Professor: Industrial waste management, interfacial phenomena, water chemistry. ARNOLD D. KERR, PH.D. (NORTHWESTERN), Professor: Engineering mechanics, structural analyses, ice engineering, and railroad engineering. NOBUHISA KOBAYASHI, PH.D. (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY), Professor: Water resources. IVAR STAKGOLD, PH.D. (HARVARD), Professor; also Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, College of Arts and Science; Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering: Nonlinear boundary value problems. ROBERT M. STARK, PH.D. (DELAWARE), Professor, also Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, College of Arts and Science: Operations research, systems analysis, random processes, technologic management. IB A. SVENDSEN, PH.D. (DENMARK TECHNICAL), Professor and Chair: Coastal engineering, wave mechanics, hydrodynamics, ship maneuvering. JIN WU, PH.D. (IOWA), H. Fletcher Brown Professor; also, H. Fletcher Brown Professor, College of Marine Studies: Oceanography, air-sea interaction, hydromechanics. CHENG YI YANG, SC.D. (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY), Professor; also Professor, College of Marine Studies: Structural dynamics, ocean engineering, random processes. JUDITH B. CARBERRY, PH.D. (NOTRE DAME), Associate Professor: Chemical aspects of water supply and wastewater treatment. ALEXANDER H-D. CHENG, PH.D. (CORNELL), Associate Professor: Water resources, groundwater flow, hydraulic fracturing, poroelasticity, boundary element methods. STEVEN DENTEL, PH.D., P.E. (CORNELL), Associate Professor: Application of colloid and interface science to water and wastewater treatment processes. SHINYA KIKUCHI, PH.D., P.E. (PENNSYLVANIA), Associate Professor; Director, Delaware Transportation Center: Transportation engineering. JAMES T. KIRBY, PH.D. (DELAWARE), Associate Professor: Ocean and Coastal Engineering. DOV LESHCHINSKY, PH.D. (ILLINOIS, CHICAGO), Associate Professor: Soil mechanics, geotechnical engineering. DENNIS R. MERTZ, PH.D., P.E. (LEHIGH), Associate Professor: Structural design, fatigue and fracture, design methodologies. ROBERT D. VARRIN, PH.D. (DELAWARE), Associate Professor; also Director, Water Resources Center, and Associate Professor, Department of Geology, College of Arts and Science: Groundwater hydrology, water resources, geological engineering. MICHAEL J. CHAJES, PH.D., P.E. (CALIFORNIA, DAVIS), Assistant Professor: Structural design and analysis, structural dynamics. ARDESHIR FAGHRI, PH.D. (VIRGINIA), Assistant Professor: Traffic analysis, highway design. VICTOR KALIAKIN, PH.D. (CALIFORNIA, DAVIS), Assistant Professor: Computational mechanics, structural mechanics, geomechanics. W. DAVID TETER, M.S.M.E., P.E. (WEST VIRGINIA), Assistant Professor: Engineering design, graphic analysis, engineering mechanics. VISTASP KARBHARI, PH.D. (DELAWARE), Assistant Research Professor; also Associate Scientist: Materials, fracture and damage mechanics, recycling, design methodology.