David Brandes, Associate Professor
email: brandesd@lafayette.edu
Teaching areas: Fluid Mechanics, Hydrology, Water Resources Engineering, Intro to Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering Computing, Design II
Research interests: modeling the dynamics of hill slope/watershed runoff and baseflow response, relating baseflow to measurable hydrogeomorphic properties of watersheds, the effect of urbanization on steam flow regimes, mathematical modeling of raptor migration
Webpage: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~brandesd/
Sharon Jones, Professor
email: jonessa@lafayette.edu
Teaching areas: Sustainability, Engineering and Public Policy, Environmental Management and Policy, Geographical Information Systems, Design Courses
Research interests: industrial environmental management systems, decision frameworks for environmental policy, infrastructure sustainability, diversity in engineering
Webpage: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~jonessa/
Arthur Kney, P.E., Associate Professor
email: kneya@lafayette.edu
Teaching areas: Introduction to Environmental Engineering, Environmental Site Assessment, Water Quality, Water Supply and Pollution Control, Design II & III
Research interests: water quality issues, fate and transport of nutrients in the environment, ion exchange materials to remove contaminants from wastewater, fate and transport of endocrine disrupting compounds, developing sustainable approaches to water and wastewater treatment in developing countries.
Webpage: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~kneya/index.html
Stephen Kurtz, Assistant Professor
email: kurtzs@lafayette.edu
Teaching areas: Fundamentals of Structural Engineering, Design II & III, Design of Concrete Structures, Design of Steel Structures, Advanced Structural Analysis, Statics, Strength of Materials, First Year Seminar
Research interests: Failure criteria and constitutive modeling of FRP-strengthened concrete
Webpage: http://www.lafayette.edu/~kurtzs
Anne Raich, Assistant Professor
email: raicha@lafayette.edu
Teaching areas: Statics, Strengths, Optimization, Advanced Structural Analysis, Design II & III
Research interests: Use of advanced soft-computing methods to develop computational systems that assist engineers in creating, maintaining, and rehabilitating structural systems, including conceptual design and damage detection in structural systems.
Webpage: http://www.lafayette.edu/~raicha
Mary J. S. Roth, P.E., Simon Cameron Long Professor
email: rothm@lafayette.edu
Teaching areas: Engineering Professionalism and Ethics, Soil Mechanics, Foundation Design, Retaining Walls and Earthen Dams
Research interests: Evaluation of 2-D vs 3-D multielectrode resistivity for the characterization of shallow karst, exploratory research in microbial remediation of liquefiable soils, evaluation of potential of earth resistivity in Norway, evaluation of reliability of earth resistivity method in thinly mantled karst
Webpage: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~rothm/
Roger Ruggles, P.E., Associate Professor and Department Head
email: rugglesr@lafayette.edu
Teaching areas: Design I, II, and III, Open Channel Hydraulics, Water Resources
Research interests: Hydrological applications of geographical Information Systems, mapping bedrock topography of Northampton County
Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Assistant Professor
email: sanfordk@lafayette.edu
Teaching areas: Transportation Systems, Infrastructure Management, Urban Planning, Sustainability, Professionalism and Ethics, Design II
Research interests: Agent-based modeling as a tool for improving infrastructure/asset management, sustainability of transportation systems.
Muhannad T. Suleiman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
email: suleimam@lafayette.edu
Teaching areas: Soil Mechanics, Foundation Design, Retaining Structures
Research interests: Foundation Engineering, Soil-Structure Interaction, Underground Structures, In-situ Testing, and Pervious Pavements
Phone: 610-330-5413
David Veshosky, Associate Professor
email: veshoskd@lafayette.edu
Teaching areas: C.E. Project Management, Construction Management
Beverly Bortz, Secretary
email: bortzb@lafayette.edu
| 
