Environmental and Water Resources Engineering - Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering - University at Buffalo

Faculty

Centers and Labs

Ecosystem Restoration through Interdisciplinary Exchange (ERIE)
Environmental Engineering and Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratories
Great Lakes Program
Groundwater Research Group
RENEW

Featured PhD Projects

1/23/17 Nitrosamine Formation in Absorption-Based Post-Combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
8/4/16 Numerical Modeling of Contaminant Tailing in Physically and Chemically Heterogeneous Formations
8/4/16 Horizontal Ground Source Heat Pump Modeling and Performance Enhancement via Employment of Tire Derived Aggregate to Form a Non-homogenous Soil Profile
8/4/16 The Effect of Nonideal Sorption on Contaminant Transport in Groundwater and Vapor: Statistical and Modeling Tools

Featured Research Projects

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Research Highlights

Student’s six-foot water and solar-powered lens purifies polluted water

5/12/17

Deshawn Henry, a University at Buffalo sophomore civil engineering major, researched how to improve a 6-foot-tall, self-sustaining magnifying glass with the goal of purifying polluted water.
Research shows algae blooms act as bodyguards for bacteria in great lakes

8/4/16

CSEE researchers found that green algae blooms (orange strands in the smaller picture) act as a barrier between UV radiation and bacteria, such as salmonella (green dots), which allows organisms to grow unheeded on Great Lakes beaches.
IBE and MCEER to Receive Upto $15M in Funding from FHWA

8/4/16

The Institute of Bridge Engineering and MCEER received a contract valued at up to $15M over a period of five years to provide structural engineering services to the Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Bridges and Structures.
Navy eyes graphene nanoribbon for ultimate power control system

8/4/16

A research team led by CSEE Professor Cemal Basaran received a $800,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to develop graphene nanoribbons that may revolutionize how power is controlled in ships, smartphones and other devices.
Twitter data can make roads safer during inclement weather

8/4/16

A UB study involving faculty members Adel Sadek and Qing He examined how weather-related tweets can be analyzed to bolster computer models that recommend safe driving speeds and routes during inclement weather.
CSEE researchers' shake test may lead to safer concrete buildings

8/4/16

A research team led by CSEE Professor Andreas Stavridis recently subjected an existing 10-story concrete warehouse in Utica, N.Y., to a series of shake tests in order to study the behavior of archaic concrete structures under lateral loads.
Team heads to Nepal to study seismic performance of buildings

8/4/16

After a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal in late April, CSEE Assistant Professor Andreas Stavridis received an NSF grant to travel to Nepal with a team of researchers to examine why certain structures held up and others did not.
Telescopic walls could rise on demand to stop flood waters

1/25/17

PhD candidate Jorge Cueto devised a patent-pending system of telescoping rectangular fiber-reinforced concrete boxes that he hopes will be the basis for "rise on demand" flood walls.