Highlights in Education

The faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are committed to excellence in teaching. Our faculty have written numerous textbooks that have been adopted by other civil and environmental engineering programs. In addition, our faculty have been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation to develop technology-enhanced educational material. The following list highlights some of our achievements.

Dr. Nicklow has co-authored three books recently of interest to water resources engineering students, faculty and professionals:

• Comprehensive Urban Hydrologic Modeling Handbook for Engineers and Planner (2006)
• Comprehensive Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Hydraulics Handbook for Engineers and Operators (2005)
• Comprehensive Sewer Collection Systems Analysis Handbook for Engineers and Planners (2004)

All three books are co-authored by P.F Boulos and M.K. Muleta (former SIUC Ph.D. student) and published by MWH Soft. Inc, Pasadena, CA.

Dr. Aslam Kassimali's textbook "Structural Analysis" published by Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning is now in its a second edition as well having been translated into Spanish and Korean. To date, this text has been used at 47 different colleges and universities. His text "Matrix Analysis of Structures", also published by Brooks/Cole, has been adopted for use by 26 different colleges and universities. In addition, Dr. Kassimali co-authored the texts "Engineering Mechanics: Statics" and "Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics" with Dr. Braja M. Das and Dr. Sedat Sami. These textbooks were published by Richard D. Irwin, Inc. in 1994.

Professor Roy Frank has completed the second edition of his handbook "Basic Surveying", available through the Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Association. This handbook is used in courses required for surveyors in Illinois as well as neighboring states.

A current educational project supported in part by the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education is Digital Images of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering. The project is designed to support the integration of technology into engineering courses and further facilitate student learning, understanding and recognition of classroom concepts. The website and CD-ROM will contain a database of photographs and video clips which illustrate concepts such as open channel flow, sedimentation, and unit processes in water and wastewater systems. This database is being constructed by filming an array of existing engineering operations, facility renovations, and construction projects, as well as naturally occurring phenomena. The project's principal investigators are Dr. Lizette Chevalier, Dr. John Nicklow and Dr. Bill T. Ray from Civil and Environmental Engineering and Lilly Boruszkowski from Cinema and Photography. You can visit this project at http://civil.engr.siu.edu/Digital Images.

This is the second major educational research project awarded to faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering by the National Science Foundation in recent years. The first project, Interactive Multimedia Labware for Civil Engineering Curricula, developed web-based laboratory manuals for both the environmental and strength of materials laboratories. The principal investigators are Dr. James Craddock and Dr. Lizette Chevalier. You can visit this site at http://civil.engr.siu.edu/nsflab/