{"id":231,"date":"2018-08-17T04:57:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T11:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/civil-environmental-engineering\/research-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T21:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:08:06","slug":"research-and-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/civil-environmental-engineering\/research-and-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Research and projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Research and projects<\/h1>\n<h2>Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering<\/h2>\n<p>CENE &amp; CM faculty work with graduate and undergraduate students on a variety of research projects. If interested in joining one of these projects, please contact the listed faculty member. Contact information can be found in our\u00a0<a title=\" Faculty page\" href=\"https:\/\/directory.nau.edu\/departments?id=10680&amp;src=civil-environmental-engineering\">directory.<\/a> Our primary focus areas are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Structural, Geotechnical &amp; Materials Engineering:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reinforced concrete: Tuchscherer, Hewes<\/li>\n<li>Bridge scour: Hewes, Tuchscherer, Odem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Water Resources Engineering:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Snow\/ice engineering: Decker<\/li>\n<li>Snowpack &amp; climate modeling: Decker<\/li>\n<li>River &amp; stream restoration: Odem, Lamer<\/li>\n<li>Hydrology &amp; hydrologic modeling: Gremillion, Odem, Lamer, Heiderscheidt<\/li>\n<li>Water\/wastewater treatment: Heiderscheidt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Environmental Engineering:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biofilters &amp; algae growth systems: Baxter<\/li>\n<li>Mercury deposition and climate modeling: Gremillion<\/li>\n<li>Aquifer quantity\/quality &amp; climate modeling: Gremillion<\/li>\n<li>Groundwater quality and remediation: Heiderscheidt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Transportation Engineering:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Traffic signal, vehicle detection, &amp; safety: Smaglik, Russo<\/li>\n<li>Highway design: Russo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Building Science &amp; Construction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Construction management &amp; safety: Bruner, Kaoni<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pedagogy &amp; STEM Outreach:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Engineering &amp; construction learning and assessment: \u00a0Tingerthal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Geospatial Systems<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surveying: Lamer, Tingerthal, Kaoni<\/li>\n<li>Global Satellite Navigation Systems (GNSS): Lamer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These projects are great opportunities for engineering students to gain experience in a professional research environment. Contact a <a title=\" Faculty page\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/civil-environmental-engineering\/faculty\/\">project leader<\/a> to join!<br \/>\n<!-- shortcode-right-column -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-right-column\" >\n    <div class=\"shortcode-right-column__container\"><!-- shortcode-block -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-block\">\n      <div class=\"block-header\">\n        <h3>Connect with us<\/h3>\n    <\/div>\n          <div class=\"block-body\">\n      <div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nausce\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/school\/nausce\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research and projects Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering CENE &amp; CM faculty work with graduate and undergraduate students on a variety of research projects. If interested in joining one of these projects, please contact the listed faculty member. Contact information can be found in our\u00a0directory. Our primary focus areas are: Structural, Geotechnical &amp; Materials Engineering:\u00a0 Reinforced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/civil-environmental-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/civil-environmental-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/civil-environmental-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/civil-environmental-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/civil-environmental-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/civil-environmental-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/civil-environmental-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/civil-environmental-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}