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.