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Author:

Yocum, Rebeka

Title:

Socialization of Safety: An Investigation into the Impact Socioeconomic Factors Have on Crash Frequency, Severity, Risk, and Cost in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

transportation safety
crash frequency
crash severity
crash risk
crash cost
statistical analysis
socioeconomics

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Committee Members:

Eric Donnell, Major Field Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Major Field Member
John Hughes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vikash Gayah, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Eck, Andrew

Title:

Evaluating Dust Suppressant Efficacy and Roadbed Stability of Dirt and Gravel Roads

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

dirt and gravel roads
dust suppression
OGPW
oil and gas produced water
dust
oil and gas wastewater
road spreading
dust palliative
road dust

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Nathaniel Warner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Zeng, Yi Xuan

Title:

hydraulics and performance evaluations of fish passages based on computational fluid dynamics and individual-based methods

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

fish passage design
fish behavior
individual-based model (IBM)
biased random walk model.
rock weirs
realistic rock weir modeling
numerical modeling

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Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Margaret Byron, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peggy Johnson, Major Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Bing

Title:

Model development and application on coupled hyporheic exchange flux in river-hyporheic zones

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hydrology
hyporheicFoam
Hyporheic exchange flux
OpenFOAM
Transient storage model
mass transfer coefficient
hyporheic zone
heterogeneous

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Committee Members:

Li Li, Major Field Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ying Pan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stewart, Bryn

Title:

From above and below: controls of external climate drivers and internal subsurface structure on catchment hydro-biogeochemistry

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

water quality
catchment
hydrology
biogeochemistry
reactive transport modeling
climate change
solute export
dissolved organic carbon
dissolved inorganic carbon

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Boyer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Li Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Major Field Member
Nathaniel Warner, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Broyles, Lauren

Title:

Hydroclimatic Risks for Household Water Insecurity and the Household Water-Food Nexus

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

household water insecurity
environmental seasonality
climate change
Bangladesh
extreme weather events

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Outside Field Member
Emily Pakhtigian, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Asher Rosinger, Outside Field Member
Rachel Brennan, Co-Chair of Committee
Alfonso Mejia, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Clare Hinrichs, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Adhikari, Bishwodeep

Title:

Field evaluation of hydrological and pollutant retention performance of green stormwater infrastructures

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Green stormwater infrastructures
Bioretention
Metals
Base cations
De-icing road salt
Nature-based solutions
Nutrients
Infiltration basin
Soil chemistry

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Cibin Raj, Major Field Member
Shirley Clark, Outside Unit Member
Hong Wu, Outside Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Dennis, Lauren

Title:

Systems-Level Analyses of Water and Energy Security in a Changing Climate

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Water Security
Energy Security
Hydropower
Network Science
Decision-Relevant Analysis
Climate Change
Systems Analysis

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Karen Fisher-Vanden, Outside Unit Member
Hannah Wiseman, Outside Field Member
Alfonso Mejia, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Caitlin Grady, Co-Chair, Major Member & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Brown, Alexander

Title:

Impacts of Sodium Chloride on Nutrient, Heavy Metals, and Total Suspended Solids Removal by Bioretention Mesocosms with Varied Vegetation and Saturation

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

bioretention
deicing salt
stormwater
green infrastructure
bioinfiltration
heavy metals
nutrients
nitrogen
phosphorus
copper
zinc
stormwater control measure
best management practice
sediment
internal water storage
vegetation
removal efficiency
water quality
loading
urban
runoff
nonpoint pollution

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Lauren Mc Phillips, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member
Margaret Crowley Hoffman, Committee Member

Author:

Boualavong, Jonathan

Title:

Energy-Rate Trade-offs in Electrochemical Carbon Capture

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

electrochemistry
carbon capture
separations
absorption
Gaussian process
adaptive sampling

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Li Li, Outside Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit & Minor Member
Bruce Logan, Major Field Member
Christopher Gorski, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Mohammadpour, Paniz

Title:

Maximizing Human-Environmental Security by Analyzing the Food, Energy and Water Interconnections

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Food security
Water security
Energy security
Sustainable development goals
food production chain
food trade
nitrogen footprint
nitrogen budget
nitrogen loss
substance flow analysis
Nitrogen loss
Scenario analysis
Nitrogen management

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Cibin Raj, Major Field Member
David Abler, Outside Field Member
Caitlin Grady, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Kaye, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Torquato, Thomas

Title:

Development of the Concept of High-Rise Hybrid Modular Construction for Vertical Mobile Home Parks

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Vertical Mobile Home Park
Mobile Home Units
Lift Process
Model
Analyzing
Prescribed Load Conditions
Unit Lift Process
Improve Building Plot

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Ali M Memari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benay Gürsoy Toykoç, Committee Member
Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, Committee Member

Author:

Pei, Te

Title:

Integrating Geotechnical Domain Knowledge Into Machine Learning for Slope Stability Predictions

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Slope Stability
Landslide Susceptibility Mapping
Machine Learning
Domain Knowledge
Physics-based model
Monotonicity

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Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tong Qiu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ming Xiao, Major Field Member
Tieyuan Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Collins, Peter

Title:

Towards Extraterrestrial Construction: Lunar Concrete for In-Situ Infrastructure on the Moon

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Geopolymer Lunar Concrete
Moon
Concrete
Durability
Lunar Simulant
Gravity

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Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Major Field Member
Sven Bilén, Outside Unit & Field Member
Barry Earl Scheetz, Special Member
Gordon Warn, Major Field Member
Aleksandra Radli¿ska, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ororbia, Maximilian Edward

Title:

Discrete structural optimization as a sequential decision process solved using deep reinforcement learning

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Discrete structural optimization
Sequential decision process
Markov decision process
Deep reinforcement learning

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Committee Members:

Timothy Simpson, Outside Unit Member
Gordon Warn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kostas Papakonstantinou, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
C Lee Giles, Outside Field Member

Author:

Howarth, Marina

Title:

A Systematic Review of Nature-Based Solutions for Riverine Flood Mitigation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Nature-Based Solutions (NBS)
flood mitigation
co-benefits
environmental justice
trandisciplinary research
co-design
green infrastructure
natural flood management
ecohydrology
engineering nature
water resources

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lauren Mc Phillips, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member

Author:

Jurado Guzman, Amanda Cristina

Title:

Data-Driven Detection and Characterization of Shocks in the Global Trade Network

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Supply chain
Resilience
Global trade
Trade shocks

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Christine Kirchhoff, Committee Member

Author:

Feng, Dapeng

Title:

Differentiable Hydrologic Models: A Systematic Integration of Deep Learning and Physical Models for Large Scale Hydrologic Simulation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Physics-constrained deep learning
Differentiable hydrologic models
Prediction in ungauged regions
Data integration
Streamflow prediction
Large scale hydrologic modeling

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Committee Members:

Li Li, Major Field Member
Chaopeng Shen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jenni Evans, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Delgado, Luis

Title:

AN EXPLORATION OF SOCIAL VULNERABILITY, EXPOSURE, AND FREIGHT TRANSPORT NETWORK DISRUPTION IN THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

social vulnerability
food
energy
and water security
food security
disruption exposure
freight transportation network
vulnerable communities
emergency response planning
inequality
network vulnerability analysis

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Committee Members:

Caitlin A Grady, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Member

Author:

Lyritsakis, Charilaos

Title:

A Global Parametric Nonlinear Programming Framework for a Geometrically Exact Inelastic Beam Finite Element

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

geometrically-exact beam
nonlinear programming
homotopy continuation
parametric optimization
finite element analysis
numerical continuation
elastoplasticity

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Committee Members:

Reuben Kraft, Outside Unit Member
Tong Qiu, Outside Field Member
Gordon Warn, Major Field Member
Kostas Papakonstantinou, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Pinlei Chen, Major Field Member