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News and Points of Note

  • Megan (Jaunich) is selected to receive a GAANN Computational Sciences Fellowship award (June 2013)
  • Former MS graduate Danielle (Touma) will be joining Stanford U to pursue her doctoral degree (June 2013)
  • Hana (Chmielewski) receives an NSF Graduate Fellowship for her doctoral program; she will continue her graduate program at NCSU and pursue a doctoral degree in Operations Research (May 2013)
  • Maged (Al-Gharably) successfully defends his masters thesis and earns his MS degree (May 2013)
  • Jim (Levis) successfully defends his dissertation and earns his PhD degree (May 2013)
  • Rohan (Manavi) completes his masters degree in Operations Research, and will be joining the doctoral program in Chemical Engineering at Rutgers (Apr 2013)
  • Hui (Wang) becomes a new father (Apr 2013)
  • Megan (Jaunich) is selected to participate in the NCSU Preparing the Professoriate (PTP) program (Apr 2013)
  • Maged (Al-Gharably) wins second place in the Poster Competition in the 2013 WREE Research Symposium (Mar 2013)
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Active Research Areas

Do you:
(1) like analytical and computational work;
(2) thrive in interdisciplinary environments;
(3) approach problems from a holistic and integrated manner;
(4) want to solve and analyze challenging engineering problems;
(5) enjoy thinking outside-the-box; and
(6) think that the present practice could benefit through quantitative approaches to find efficient and effective solutions?

If so, you may find this research group and its research activities of interest to you.

  • Developing enhancements to meta-heuristic algorithms

  • Coupling building energy performance assessment into the design process

  • Characterizing leak and contamination sources in water distribution systems

  • Improving watershed and water supply sustainability

  • Identifying integrated solid waste management plans considering life-cycle cost and environmental consequences

  • Considering infrastructure systems resilience in design, operation and asset allocation