Professor Maria E. Moreyra Garlock
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Princeton University
Quad E-322
Princeton, NJ 08544
tel.: 609-258-2728
fax: 609-258-2760
e-mail: mgarlock@princeton.edu

Members:

Maria E. Moreyra Garlock, Jean H. Prevost, and Erik VanMarcke

Website(s):

http://www.princeton.edu

http://www.cee.princeton.edu

Princeton, located in central New Jersey, is a

View of the Princeton Campus

residential town of approximately 25,000 people. The research headquarters of many national and international corporations are located in the area. The McCarter Theatre on campus offers an outstanding variety of plays and concerts during the academic year, and the town is only an hour’s train ride or a 2-hour bus ride from New York and Philadelphia.

Princeton University is a privately endowed institution with a reputation for academic excellence dating back to Colonial days. The educational emphasis at Princeton is on individualized programs of study, as reflected in its student-faculty ratio of approximately 2:1. There are 753 undergraduate and 474 graduate students enrolled in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has 44 B.S. candidates, 29 Ph.D. candidates, 8 M.S.E. and 1 M.E. candidates.

Programs of Study

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers programs of graduate study and research in two areas: Environmental Engineering & Water Resources and Mechanics, Materials, and Structures. Three degree programs of study are available: The Doctor of Philosophy in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Ph.D.), Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.), and a one-year Master of Engineering (M.E.). Students must be admitted to one of the three-degree programs. Doctor of Philosophy candidates are required to pass the general examination. Each program has procedures for the completion of the general examination outlined under the appropriate area of study. Usually two-to-three years beyond the general examination are necessary for completion of a suitable dissertation. Upon completion of these studies and acceptance of the dissertation by the department, the candidate will be admitted to the final public oral examination.

The Master of Science in Engineering program has a strong research focus reflected in the requirement of an M.S.E. thesis. The course requirements are fulfilled by successfully completing 10 one-semester courses, two of which are required research courses. The M.S.E. degree is usually completed within two academic years of full-time study. A Master of Engineering degree is offered to those students who are interested in the practical aspects of engineering and wish to prepare for professional practice. The department offers two such programs, in Structural Engineering and Environmental Engineering. The student fulfills the requirements by successfully completing 8 one-semester courses that he or she selects from a list of courses relevant to the program. A thesis is not required. The M.E. degree is usually completed in one academic year of full-time study.

Research Facilities

The equipment and facilities that are common to all departments of the School of Engineering and Applied Science include the engineering school library, a central machine shop, and an instrumentation center. In addition, the department has an extensive archive of structural design documents and also supervises a computer laboratory in the methodology of problem solving, using interactive computer graphics and large-scale digital computing. The facilities of the laboratory expose students to the full range of computer technology, from the large-scale super-computer through advanced graphics workstations (Silicon Graphics) to the microprocessor level. Laboratory and field instruments are available for research in mechanics, structures, structural dynamics, material sciences, hydrology, geophysics, water quality, and hazardous waste. There is also a geology library with 90,000 volumes, of which 25,000 are located in Guyot Hall.

The Firestone Library contains more than 2.5 million printed books, more than 30,000 current serials, and a large collection of manuscripts and other non-book materials. The engineering library contains extensive research materials, including 100,000 volumes of current American and international engineering periodicals, bound periodicals, and reference books. There are also separate and complete libraries in other disciplines.

Applying

A Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science, completed with superior standing, is normally required for admission to the graduate program. Applicants are required to submit the results of the GRE. An international student coming from a non-English-speaking country and whose Bachelor’s degree is not from an American University is required to submit the results of the TOEFL. The minimum expected scores for admission are TOEFL, 600. Readmission to subsequent years of study is granted by the dean of the Graduate School on recommendation of the department and depends upon the student’s demonstrated capabilities in course work and research. Completed application materials, as well as applications for financial aid, are due in the Admissions Office, 307 Nassau Hall, before January 2, for fall admission.

Correspondence

Director of Graduate Studies and Information
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Telephone: 609-258-5539
World Wide Web: www.cee.princeton.edu

Environmental Engineering and Water Resources

Advanced, analytical, numerical, and statistical methods are applied to groundwater hydrology and hydrogeology; surface hydrology and hydraulics; surface and subsurface water quality, including geochemical, biochemical, and transport processes; and hydrology-climate interaction, including land-surface processes, system analysis, and water resources. Students in the program can interact with faculty members in related departments and in NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) located on the campus.

Michael A. Celia, Ph.D., Princeton, 1983. Groundwater hydrology, numerical analysis, modeling multiphase flow in porous media.

Peter R. Jaffe, Chairman of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 1981. Chemical, physical, and biological fate of conventional and toxic pollutants in natural water systems; water quality modeling; water pollution control.

Catherine A. Peters, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1992. Organic contaminants, remediation technologies for hazardous waste sites, thermodynamic modeling of complex contaminant mixtures.

Ignacio, Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1967. Analysis, synthesis and sampling of hydrologic processes. Stochastic modeling of natural phenomena. Hydrogeomorphology. Hydroclimatology. Ecohydrology.

James A. Smith, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1981. Hydrometeorology, multisensor rainfall estimation, hydrologic use of weather radar.

Eric F. Wood, Sc.D., MIT, 1974. Analyses of hydrologic and geomorphologic processes, including land-atmospheric interaction; hydrologic modeling and simulation; applications of remote sensing; statistical analysis of water resources systems; real-time flood forecasting.

Mechanics, Materials and Structures - Current research work in earthquake engineering, structural engineering, structural dynamics, synthesis of earthquake ground motion, soil liquefaction, linear and nonlinear finite element methods, probabilistic mechanics and structural reliability, aesthetics of large-scale modern civil engineering structures, history of structural engineering, microstructure characterization of heterogeneous materials, micromechanics of composite and porous materials, mechanisms of deterioration of concrete, novel cementitious materials, structure and properties of gels, elasticity, plasticity, wave propagation, magnetoelasticity, and piezoelectricity. Students in the program have access to the facilities of the interdisciplinary Princeton Materials Institute.

David P. Billington, B.S.E., Princeton, 1950. Thin-shell concrete structures; design and analysis of bridges; history of structural engineering, especially Swiss and American concrete bridges; suspension bridges; the life and works of Robert Maillart; aesthetics of large-scale modern structures such as bridges, thin-shell roofs, and industrial facilities; the relationship between engineering and the liberal arts and between structures and architecture; bridges and culture in modern Japan.

Maria E. Moreyra Garlock, Ph.D., Lehigh, 1997. Steel frame connections, FEM analysis of seismic behaviour of steel moment-resisting frames, post-tensioned moment-resisting connections.

Peter C. Y. Lee, Professor; D.Eng.Sc., Columbia, 1965. Elasticity, magneto elasticity, piezoelectricity, and piezoelectromagnetism; vibrations and wave propagation in isotropic, anisotropic, magnetoelastic, and piezoelectric media; nonlinear effects on the high-frequency vibrations in acoustical and dielectric (electric) resonators due to initial forces, accelerations, or temperature changes.

Jean H. Prevost, Director of Graduate Studies; Ph.D., Stanford, 1974. Dynamics, nonlinear mechanics, mixture theories, finite-element methods, constitutive theories, earthquake engineering, soil mechanics, centrifuge soil testing.

George W. Scherer, Ph.D., MIT, 1974. Broad interest in materials science of ceramics, glasses, inorganic gels, and cements. Theoretical and experimental studies of sintering, drying, permeability, viscoelastic properties, strength and fracture of porous materials, phase changes in small pores, durability of materials, conservation of art.

Erik H. VanMarcke, Ph.D., MIT, 1970. Structural safety, dynamics, and vibrations; engineering risk analysis for earthquakes, wind, and other natural hazards; theory of random media and random fields; space-time variations of earthquake ground motion and response; reliability in geotechnical engineering; stochastic cosmology; risk assessment and management.