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Ram Pendyala is a professor in the Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering program of the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, one of ASU鈥檚 Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

Dr. Maurizio Porfiri is an Institute Professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, with appointments at the Center for Urban Science and Progress and the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Civil and Urban Engineering. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, in 2000 and 2006; a 鈥淟aurea鈥� in Electrical Engineering (with honors) and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Rome 鈥淟a Sapienza鈥� and the University of Toulon (dual degree program), in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He has been on the faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department since 2006, when he founded the Dynamical Systems Laboratory.

Dr. Porfiri is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has served in the Editorial Board of ASME Journal of Dynamics systems, Measurements and Control, ASME Journal of Vibrations and Acoustics, Flow, IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Mathematics in Engineering, and Mechatronics. Dr. Porfiri is engaged in conducting and supervising research on complex systems, with applications from mechanics to behavior, public health, and robotics.

He is the author of more than 350 journal publications and the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He has been included in the 鈥淏rilliant 10鈥� list of Popular Science in 2010 and his research featured in all the major media outlets, including CNN, NPR, Scientific American, and Discovery Channel. Other significant recognitions include invitations to the World Laureate Forum and to Frontiers of Engineering Symposia organized by National Academy of Engineering; the Outstanding Young Alumnus award by the College of Engineering of Virginia Tech; the ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award; the ASME DSCD Young Investigator Award; and the  ASME C.D. Mote, Jr. Early Career Award.

I am Professor of Sustainable Construction and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Technology. Having left school at 16 I joined the Royal Air Force as an avionics technician working on airborne weapons and navigation systems. After six years I decided to leave and read engineering at the University of Leicester. The curriculum at Leicester sparked my interest in the link between engineering and the environment and I have now been involved with different aspects of the field of sustainable built environments for over twenty years. Over this time I have had a range of industrial and academic experience, working for companies such as Thames Water, Scott Wilson and the Building Research Establishment as well as receiving research degrees from the University of Cambridge (MPhil) and Imperial College (PhD).

My current research activities consider a broad range of issues relating to sustainable buildings, from the analysis of the relationship between buildings and open spaces at a redevelopment scale, to the consideration of elements of both new build and the existing building stock at an individual building scale. This work is characterised by multidisciplinary approaches, working together with ecologists, social scientists, urban designers, architects, economists and engineers. Key themes currently focus on the need to close the gap between design intent and the in-use performance of buildings, a significant problem so often found in the built environment, and the importance of dealing with future uncertainties to deliver resilient urban areas.

My research focuses on how we can ensure decision-making processes during building design, construction and operation reflect the whole life implications of the dynamic nature of building performance, the effects of occupant responses and perceptions, and the impact of future uncertainties.

- Member: Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
- Chartered Environmentalist

I enjoy working on Hydrogen energy, energy storage & carbon capture technologies. I have industrial experience to apply the principles of thermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, electro-chemistry, heat & mass transfer, and system integration over the past 17 years at my own companies.

I have worked on hydrogen production from water, hydrogen fuel cells, gas compression, biogas production, biogas upgrading into bio-methane, capturing Carbon di Oxide from various sources using water scrubbing, and pressure swing absorption methods. I have experience on high pressure storage of hydrogen and bio-natural gas (Bio-CNG). I have studied the super critical fluid properties of CO2 at high pressure.

While developing fuel cell and electrolyser technologies at my own companies I have gained experience on mathematical modelling of fluid flow through very thin channels and fine pores for designing of bipolar plates and electrodes. This helped my understanding of the characteristics of gas bubble movement, capillary action, fluid viscosity and rheology under various temperatures and pressures. I have developed catalyst ink for electrodes using solvent, carbon powder, metal-catalyst, binders etc.

I have two international patents granted on electrolyser for hydrogen production as the sole inventor and owner. 

Education:

My first degree was in Civil Engineering with specialisation on Environmental Engineering (1990-1994) from India. I then took my Masters Degree on Energy Engineering from India which gave me an exposure to both conventional and non-conventional energy systems (1999-2001). I then completed my PhD (2002-2006) on electrolysers for hydrogen production from water and hydrogen fuel cells from Loughborough University, UK at the Centre of Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. I have also completed my MBA from Surrey University Business Schools, UK in 2015.

Dr. Salih Kocak is an Assistant Professor in the Building Construction program at the University of West Florida. Dr. Kocak brings 10 years of expertise and experience in educational and public sector, working as an academician, consultant, project engineer, construction project manager and management supervisor in a range of mid to large size projects in Europe, Asia, Middle East and United States, with focus on highways, bridges, geotechnical and public facilities. He received his M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University (MSU) following his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at Middle East Technical University (METU).

Dr. Kocak has been involved in designing, managing, supervising, providing technical assistance, performing long term cost-benefit analysis and QA/QC supervision of various European Union, Turkey, Qatar and U.S. government funded multi-million dollar projects. Cluj-Napoca autostrada construction project, METU-Bilkent and Beytepe bridges design and building phases, Black Sea region divided highway project, Doha water pipeline project, Montana I-15 and Maryland warm mix asphalt projects, New Hampshire high recycled/reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) project, MDOT I-75 modernization project were some of the projects that Dr. Kocak was involved in.

His field experience covers a wide-range of areas within Civil Engineering & Construction Management disciplines including geotechnical and pavement designs, site coordination and supervision of various teams, solving the site-specific problems, applying job and worker safety systems including traffic diversion and signalization, preparing the progressive payments, scheduling the work and worker load effectively, resource allocation, applying project specified Q/C and Q/A procedures. He has extensive knowledge of construction materials, transportation systems, material testing such as asphalt, concrete, steel, soil, aggregates and timber.

His research examined the relationship between material characteristics of flexible paving materials and highway noise. Moreover, he investigated the interaction between recycled tire rubber, polymers and high amount reclaimed asphalt pavement. Kocak鈥檚 work has been in peer-reviewed publications such as Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Road Materials and Pavement Design.

Dr. Kocak鈥檚 computer skills include civil and construction related technology such as AASHTOWare Pavement M-E Design, MATLAB, S-Steel, SAP2000, Slope/W, Seep/W, Quake/W, gINT, AllPile, Apile, Lpile, Settle3D, SPSS, Watercad, AutoCad, Revit and many others.

Degrees & Institutions:
Dr. Kocak holds a Bachelor's Degree (B.Sc.) in Civil Engineering with a major in Construction Management program from Middle East Technical University (METU). Dr. Kocak earned his Master鈥檚 (M.Sc.) and Doctorate (Ph.D.) Degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering with Geotechnical and Pavement Engineering specialization from Michigan State University, where he was the recipient of McCowan endowed fellowship, Chi-Epsilon honor society award, excellence in diversity award and MSU Dean鈥檚 office graduate fellowship, college of engineering best teaching assistant award and doctoral scholarship.

Current Courses:
Statics & Strength of Materials (BCN2405)
Computer Aided Design (ETD2320)
Classes Taught:
Statics & Strength of Materials
Fundamentals of Structural Engineering
Computer Aided Design
Mechanical, Electrical & Equipment Systems
Construction Materials
Heavy Construction Means and Methods
Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics
Geotechnical Design & Analysis
Concrete & Asphalt Pavement Design & Analysis
Bituminous Materials
 

 

Special Interests:
Characterization and modification of construction materials (laboratory characterization , analytical and numerical modeling)
Sustainable Construction, Sustainable Asphalt Pavements (crumb rubber modified asphalt and warm mix asphalt)
Pavement design, analysis and modeling
Recyclable materials in Portland cement and asphalt concrete
Non-destructive construction material evaluation techniques
Statistical techniques in modeling material performance
Publications:
Recent Peer-Reviewed Journal & Conference Articles
Kocak, S, Kutay, ME (2016). Effect of Addition of Dry Crumb Rubber on the Performance of Terminal Blend Crumb Rubber Modified Asphalt Mixtures. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2633-11
Kocak, S, Kutay, ME (2015). Use of Crumb Rubber Modifier in Lieu of Grade Bumping for High Percent Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Mixtures. Road Materials and Pavement Design. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680629.2016.1142466
Kocak, S, Kutay, ME (2012). Relationship between Material Characteristics of Asphalt Mixtures and Highway Noise. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Vol. 3, No. 2295, pp. 35-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2295-05
Kocak, S, Kutay, ME (2016). Combined Effect of SBS and De-vulcanized Rubber (DVR) Modification on Performance Grade and Fatigue Cracking Resistance of Asphalt Binders, 8th RILEM International Conference on Mechanisms of Cracking and Debonding in Pavements, Vol 13, Part 5, pp. 269-274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0867-6
Kocak, S, Kutay, ME (2015). A Hybrid Terminal Blend 鈥� Dry Crumb Rubber Modified Asphalt Mixture 鈥� CRHY. Proceedings of the Rubberized Asphalt Rubber 2015, Las Vegas, NV, http://www.consulpav.com
Kutay, ME, Kocak, S, Petros, AK (2010). A New Numerical Modeling Approach for Sound Propagation and Generation: Lattice Boltzmann Method. Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers.
Selected Professional Presentations
Kocak, S. (2017). 鈥淐ombined Effect of SBS/DVR/CR Modifications on Binder and Mixtures Performance鈥�, Presented at 18th AMAP Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, February 9th, 2017.
Kocak, S. (2017). 鈥淓ffect of Addition of Dry Crumb Rubber on the Performance of Terminal Blend Crumb Rubber Modified Asphalt Mixtures鈥�, Presented at 96th Annual Transportation Research Board Conference, Washington, D.C., January 09-13, 2017.
Kocak, S (2016). 鈥淐ombined Effect of SBS and De-vulcanized Rubber (DVR) Modification on Performance Grade and Fatigue Cracking Resistance of Asphalt Binder鈥�, Presented at 8th RILEM Conference, Nantes, France, June 07-09, 2016.
Kocak, S. (2015) 鈥淔easibility of using crumb rubber modifier in lieu of grade bumping for high percent reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) mixtures in Michigan鈥�, Presented at 94th Annual Transportation Research Board Conference, Washington, D.C., January 11-15, 2015.
Kocak, S. (2015) 鈥淎 Hybrid Terminally Blend - Dry Crumb Rubber Modified Asphalt Mixture 鈥揅RHY鈥�, Presented at 6th Rubberized Asphalt Rubber Conference (RAR-2015), Las Vegas, NV, October 4-7, 2015.
Kocak, S. (2012) 鈥淩elationship between Material Characteristics of Asphalt Mixtures and Highway Noise鈥�, Presented at 91st Annual Transportation Research Board Conference, Washington, D.C., January 11-15, 2012.
Kocak, S. (2010) 鈥淎 New Numerical Modeling Approach for Sound Propagation and Generation: the Lattice Boltzmann Method鈥�, Presented at 89th Annual Transportation Research Board Conference, Washington, D.C., January 10-14, 2010.

Dr. Vinka Oyanedel-Craver is a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. Her research interests lie in the area of emerging contaminants of drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater treatment, as well as the development of novel water technologies. Her current research focus is on environmental nanotechnology, specifically on the behavior and application of nanomaterials in different ecological compartments and their use as antimicrobial compounds in point of use water/wastewater treatment in rural developing communities. Her research team has authored more than 45 peer-review publications. 

Dr. Akanda鈥檚 primary expertise is in the intersections of Water Security, Climate Change and Global Health 鈥� and the development of early warning systems to benefit emerging public health issues in the developing world. Ali was the recipient of the NIH Ruth Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship and the Dean鈥檚 Fellowship during his PhD at Tufts University, Medford, MA. Ali鈥檚 doctoral research was the first to identify both dry and wet season hydroclimatic drivers of cholera outbreaks in South Asia and was instrumental in securing an NIH Research Challenge Grant on climate change impacts on cholera. His current research focuses on providing a large scale understanding of hydroclimatic forces affecting water-related disease outbreaks in resource constrained regions, and understanding health impacts of climatic and anthropogenic changes in rapidly growing urban regions of developing nations.

Dr. Goodwill is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, a position he started in the fall of 2017. In this appointment, he executes research in physicochemical processes, water quality, and water-poverty issues. He also teaches classes focused on water treatment and reuse, and environmental analytical techniques. His Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering are from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College. Prior to entering academia, Joe was a Project Engineer for Black & Veatch working on global projects out of their Philadelphia office. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE), and a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professional. Joe also works with multiple international water NGOs, supporting projects in Malawi, India, Ghana, and Bolivia. He received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2021.

Alessandro Palermo is an expert in the seismically safe design of buildings and bridges, with an additional focus on sustainability. He holds twos patents in mass timber construction, one of which is consider the basis for the advancement of seismically resilient technologies for timber construction and adopted in several buildings around the world.
Palermo has expertise in material degradation and potential mitigation strategies. For example, one of his recent projects aims to improve the lifespan of bridges by using innovative materials and by understanding the impact of corrosion on a bridge’s seismic performance. He also has done work on using waste materials, such as tires and glass, to improve the seismic performance of concrete structures.  
Palermo expertise branches out to digital construction as well. He is currently working on an extensive testing program to quantify the performance of 3D Printed concrete houses during earthquakes, the Achilles’ heel of the technology.