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We maintain water and electric resources, communications and transportation.
Infrastructure Researchers
Natalie K. Becknell
![Natalie K. Becknell](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Becknell_Natalie.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Infrastructure
- Transport Logistics
Andrew F. Braham
![Andrew F. Braham](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Braham_Andrew.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Asphalt emulsion
- Pavement maintenance and rehabilitation
- Sustainability
Micah Hale
![Micah Hale](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/hale_micah.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- High Performance Concrete
- Self-Consolidating Concrete
- Bond Behavior of Prestressing Strand
Kevin D. Hall
![Kevin D. Hall](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Hall_Kevin.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Transportation Pavements and Materials
- Pavement Evaluation and Rehabilitation
- Pavement Construction Techniques
- Asphalt Mixture Design and Construction Optimization techniques for pavements and infrastructure management systems
- Distributed Multimedia based Highway Information System (MMHIS)
- Machine vision for automated condition assessment
- Application of intelligent computing, GIS and GPS to transportation management
Sarah Vavrik Hernandez
![Sarah Vavrik Hernandez](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Hernandez_Sarah.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Transportation systems engineering
- Freight transportation data sources and needs
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Freight travel demand modeling
Ernie Heymsfield
![Ernie Heymsfield](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Heymsfield_Ernie.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- infrastructure
Haitao Liao
![Haitao Liao](/_resources/images/engr_research/adv_manu_researchers/liao.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Reliability and maintenance modeling
- Statistical models and data analysis
- Applied operations research
- Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA)
- Reliability prediction for electronic components and circuit assemblies using accelerated tests
- Sensor-based fault diagnostics and prognostics for microelectronics, industrial equipment & machinery
- Reliability analysis of nanodevices
- Data-based/model-based warranty/repair demand prediction
- Highly accelerated life test (HALT) and highly environmental stress screening (HESS)
- Data analytics in additive manufacturing
Ashlea Milburn
![Ashlea Milburn](/_resources/images/engr_research/big_data_analytics_researchers/ashleaMilburn.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Logistics planning problems, especially those arising in health and humanitarian sectors
- Optimization
- Heuristics
Cameron Murray
![Cameron Murray](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/murray_Cameron.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Rapid setting concrete/structural performance of CSA cement concrete
- Prestressed concrete
- Strand bond – transfer and development length of strand
- Shear in prestressed concrete
- Corrosion in prestressed concrete
- Bridge evaluation and load distribution
- Alkali-silica reaction
Heather Nachtmann
![Heather Nachtmann](/_resources/images/engr_research/big_data_analytics_researchers/heather_Nachtmann.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Transportation systems engineering
- Logistics modeling
- Healthcare supply chain
- Economic decision analysis
Ed Pohl
![Ed Pohl](/_resources/images/engr_research/big_data_analytics_researchers/epohl.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Reliability and Maintenance Modeling
- Healthcare Logistics
- Decision and Risk Analysis
- Engineering Optimization
- Probabilistic Design
- Systems Engineering
Gary Prinz
![Gary Prinz](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Prinz_Gary.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Fundamentals of Fracture and Fatigue in Structures
- Seismic design solutions for steel structures
- Mechanics and simulation of ductile fracture
- Ultra low-cycle fatigue
- Computer simulation of structures under dynamic loads
Chase E. Rainwater
![Chase E. Rainwater](/_resources/images/engr_research/adv_manu_researchers/rainwater.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Large-scale optimization
- Integer programming
- Supply chain logistics
R. Panneer Selvam
![R. Panneer Selvam](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Selvam_Panneer.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Structural Analysis
- Structural Loading
- Finite Element Methods in Civil Engineering
- Numerical modeling of linear, nonlinear and dynamic behavior in structural mechanics, fluid dynamics and acoustics using boundary element, finite element and finite difference methods
- Experimental research using photoelasticity and strain measuring instruments
Kelly Sullivan
![Kelly Sullivan](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Sullivan_Kelly.jpg)
Industrial Engineering
- Network Optimization
- Integer Programming
- Optimization in Reliability
- Defense Applications
- Homeland Security Applications
Stacy Goad Williams
![Stacy Goad Williams](/_resources/images/engr_research/infrastructure_researchers/Williams_Stacy.jpg)
Civil Engineering
- Pavement materials
- Testing methods
- Pavement surface characteristics