Civil Engineering

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The Department of Civil Engineering offers the degrees of PhD in Civil Engineering, Master of Science in Civil Engineering (MS), Master of Science in Environmental Engineering (MSEnE), Master of Engineering in Civil and Environmental Engineering (MECEE). The department also offers the MS in Construction Management that is available both face-to-face and fully online.

Admission Requirements

Students should consult the introduction to the college of engineering section for information on general admission requirements and the admissions requirements specific to each graduate program.

Honor Code

Civil Engineering and Construction Management are licensed professions that are regulated by each state through a licensing or engineering practice law. Each state requires engineers to protect the public safety and act in an honest and trustworthy manner. These standards of ethical behavior are also codified in ethics guidelines established by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the Texas Society of Professional Engineers (TSPE).

Department Policy

The Department has established this Honor Code Policy because it has an obligation to the State and the public to prevent students from entering the profession who are not honest and trustworthy in their academic efforts. This Honor Code Policy allows the Department to recommend disciplinary action to the University Office of Student Services and to remove students from the Department who have violated the Honor Code. This Honor Code is consistent with the Student Conduct and Discipline Chapter of the Student Affairs Section of the Handbook of Operating Procedures of the University of Texas at El Paso. The Honor Code applies to graduate and undergraduate students, faculty members, and administrators. The Honor Code is based on these requirements:

Engineers must possess personal integrity both as students and as professionals. They must ensure safety, health, fairness, and honesty in their undertakings.
Students in the Department are honorable and trustworthy.
The students, faculty, and administrators of the Department trust each other to uphold the principles of the Honor Code, and they are jointly responsible for precautions against violations of its policies.
It is dishonorable for students to receive credit for work that is not the result of their own efforts.

Department students are required to sign an Honor Code Agreement which will be kept on file with the Department. The Honor Code has been established to support and enforce course policies set by instructors. Course instructors have exceptional latitude when preparing the policies for their courses. This can lead to variations between policies of different courses. It is the instructor's responsibility to clearly develop course policies. Students are responsible for understanding the Honor Code and course policies and should consult with the instructor if they are unclear. If a student consults with the instructor and still feels the policies for a course are not clear or fair, the student should notify the Department Chairperson.

Department students enrolled in courses outside of the Department must abide by the policies of the school or college in which the course is offered. Students who are not members of the Department who take a course offered by the Department are bound by the policies of the Honor Code.

Chair

Carlos Ferregut
Contact Information: ferregut@utep.edu; 915-747-6921
Education: BS, National Polytechnic Institute; MS, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Ph D, University of Waterloo

Professor

Cesar Carrasco
Contact Information: ccarras@utep.edu; 915-747-6919
Education: BS, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey; MS, The University of Texas at El Paso; Ph D, The University of Texas at El Paso

Ruey Cheu
Contact Information: rcheu@utep.edu; 915-747-5717
Education: B.Eng., National University of Singapore; M.Eng., National University of Singapore; Ph D, University of California, Irvine

Carlos Ferregut
Contact Information: ferregut@utep.edu; 915-747-6921
Education: BS, National Polytechnic Institute; MS, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Ph D, University of Waterloo

Wen-Whai Li
Contact Information: wli@utep.edu; 915-747-8755
Education: BS, National Taiwan University; MS, Colorado State University; Ph D, Colorado State University; QEP

Alex Mayer
Contact Information: amayer2@utep.edu; 915-747-8699
Education: BS, Brown University; MS, University of North Carolina -Chapel; Ph D, University of North Carolina -Chapel

Soheil Nazarian
Contact Information: nazarian@utep.edu; 915-747-6911
Education: MS, University of Tehran; MS, Tufts University; Ph D, The University of Texas at Austin

Roberto Osegueda
Contact Information: osegueda@utep.edu; 915-747-5680
Education: BS, Texas A&M University; MS, Texas A&M University; Ph D, Texas A&M University

Vivek Tandon
Contact Information: vivek@utep.edu; 915-747-6924
Education: BS, The Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology; MS, The University of Texas at El Paso; Ph D, Penn State University

Associate Professor

Imad Abdallah
Contact Information: emadn@utep.edu; 915-747-8907
Education: BS, The University of Texas at El Paso; MS, The University of Texas at El Paso; Ph D, The University of Texas at El Paso

Adeeba Raheem
Contact Information: aaraheem@utep.edu; 915-747-6348
Education: MS, University of Florida; MS, University of Florida; Certificate, Harvard School of Public Health; MS, University of Florida; Ph D, University of Florida

Ivonne Santiago
Contact Information: isantiago@utep.edu; 915-747-8478
Education: BS, University of Puerto Rico; M.Eng., Clemson University; Ph D, New Mexico State University

Jeffrey Weidner
Contact Information: jweidner@utep.edu; 915-747-6913
Education: BS, Drexel University; MS, Lehigh University; Ph D, Drexel University

Assistant Professor

Lauren Kennedy
Contact Information: lckennedy@utep.edu; 915-747-8178
Education: MS, University of California, Berkeley; Ph D, University of California, Berkeley

Jaeyoon (Jason) Kim
Contact Information: jkim13@utep.edu; 915-747-8729
Education: Ph D, Texas A&M University

Camila Leite Madeira
Contact Information: cleitemadeira@utep.edu;
Education: BS, Federal University of Itajubá; MS, The University of Arizona; Ph D, The University of Arizona

Professor of Practice

Raed Aldouri
Contact Information: raeda@utep.edu; 915-747-8019
Education: MS, University of Colorado, Boulder; Ph D, University of Texas at El Paso

Austin Marshall
Contact Information: asmarshall@utep.edu; 915-747-5765
Education: BS, Cornell University; MS, University of Michigan; Graduate study, no degree, University of Michigan; JD, University of Detroit; Real Estate Law Course Program, Mamar University; Certificate, Design-Build, University of Denver and Design-Build Institute of America

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Joanne Moyer
Contact Information: jmmoyer@utep.edu; 915-747-5464
Education: MS, University of Texas at El Paso; Ph D, The University of Texas at El Paso