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Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

Faculty Directory

Civil Engineering

Goel, Ramesh
104 EMRO
Phone: 581-6110
Email: rgoel@civil.utah.edu

General Research Interests: Water and wastewater treatment, environmental engineering and microbiology, tools at 16S rDNA level, groundwater remediation.

Student Participation: The undergraduate can assist me in running the bench scale reactors, doing 16S rDNA analysis, data analysis, and working with PhD students.

Background Needed: Math, science, high school chemistry and biology.

Outside Majors: Biology, chemistry, microbiology, bioengineering, environmental engineering, geology, soil science.

Student generated projects may be considered.

Hong, Andy
104 EMRO
Phone: 581-7232
Email: hong@civil.utah.edu

General Research Interests: Pollution control, environmental remediation, contaminant treatment

Student Participation: laboratory tasks, including analytical procedures, assisting graduate students in experiments

Background Needed: Chemistry– general

Outside Majors: chemistry, chemical engineering

Keywords: environmental engineering, pollution control, remediation

Student generated projects may be considered
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Lawton, Evert C.
104 EMRO
Phone: 585-3947
E-mail: lawton@civil.utah.edu

General Research Interest: Geotechnical engineering, soil mechanics, soil improvement & stabilization, collapsible soils.

Student Participation: Perform field & laboratory experiments, including data reduction, analysis, & presentation.

Background Needed: Basic engineering, preferable including CVEEN 3310 (Geotechnical Engineering I).

Outside Majors: Geological Engineering, Geology, Mining Engineering.

Key Words: Geotechnical Engineering, Soil Mechanics.

Student generated projects may be considered.


Pantelides, Chris P.
104 EMRO
Phone: 585-3991
Email: chris@civil.utah.edu

General Research Interest: Structural optimization, building structures, earthquake engineering, bridge engineering, composites, concrete.

Student Participation: Computing, developing programs, experiments, full-scale testing.

Background Needed: Good computer skills, good math background, hands-on, stain gage application.

Outside Majors: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Chemical Engineering.

Key Words: Structures, concrete, earthquakes, buildings, design, bridges, experiments.

Student generated projects may be considered.


Segall, Marylin P.
423 Wakara Way, Suite 300
Phone: 585-5730
E-Mail: mpsegall@egi.utah.edu

General Research Interest: Evaluation of seabed conditions using geotechnical and geochemical measurements.

Student Participation: Compilation of geochemical and sedimentological measurements, data manipulation, and statistical analysis, and summary of observations.

Background Needed: Good computer skills, working knowledge of MS EXCEL, understanding of basic geochemical measurements, and good observational skills.

Outside Majors: Geology & Geophysics.

Student generated projects may be considered.


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