38 faculty and 0 courses in Civil Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
- Qiang He, Professor h-index 73
Notable: “Controlled Preparation of MnO2 Hierarchical Hollow Nanostructures and Their Application in Water Treatment” (2008) · 740 citations
- Joshua S. Fu, Chancellor's Professor, John D. Tickle Professor, and James G. Gibson Professor h-index 63
Notable: “Asian emissions in 2006 for the NASA INTEX-B mission” (2009) · 2,170 citations
- Asad Khattak, Beaman Professor and Transportation Program Coordinator h-index 56
Notable: “Travel behavior in neo-traditional neighborhood developments: A case study in USA” (2005) · 292 citations
- Jia Xing, Research Associate Professor h-index 53
Notable: “Progress of Air Pollution Control in China and Its Challenges and Opportunities in the Ecological Civilization Era” (2020) · 464 citations
- David L. Greene, Research Professor h-index 50
Focused on energy use in transportation and policies to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and achieve a transition to sustainable energy sources. He has published extensively on automotive fuel economy and the Co
Notable: “Energy efficiency and consumption — the rebound effect — a survey” (2000) · 2,012 citations
- Jack Parker, Research Professor h-index 45
Es on inverse modeling, analysis of prediction uncertainty, and stochastic cost optimization of engineering decisions. Parker and colleagues have developed more than a dozen computer programs to address a range of subsurface contamination p
Notable: “A parametric model for constitutive properties governing multiphase flow in porous media” (1987) · 783 citations
- Christopher Cherry, Associate Department Head of Undergraduate Studies and Professor h-index 44
Notable: “E-bikes in the Mainstream: Reviewing a Decade of Research” (2015) · 478 citations
- Khalid Alshibli, Associate Department Head of Graduate Studies and Professor h-index 41
Notable: “Shear Band Formation in Plane Strain Experiments of Sand” (2000) · 242 citations
- Dayakar Penumadu, Fred N. Peebles Professor and IAMM Chair of Excellence h-index 36
Notable: “Compressibility effect in evaluating the pore-size distribution of kaolin clay using mercury intrusion porosimetry” (2000) · 192 citations
- Z. John Ma, Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Freeze-thaw resistance of Class F fly ash-based geopolymer concrete” (2019) · 231 citations
- Haochen Li, Assistant Professor h-index 31
Notable: “Semi-automatic geometric digital twinning for existing buildings based on images and CAD drawings” (2020) · 173 citations
- Jon Hathaway, Professor h-index 29
Notable: “Pollutant Removal and Peak Flow Mitigation by a Bioretention Cell in Urban Charlotte, N.C.” (2008) · 412 citations
- Lee D. Han, Professor h-index 28
Traffic engineering, application of advanced technologies to transportation, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), system modeling and simulations, traffic flow theory, traffic operations, transportation data and information sys
Notable: “Online-SVR for short-term traffic flow prediction under typical and atypical traffic conditions” (2008) · 827 citations
- Nicholas Wierschem, Associate Professor h-index 26
Notable: “An inerter-enhanced nonlinear energy sink” (2019) · 174 citations
- Kevin Heaslip, Director of the Center for Transportation Research and Professor h-index 24
Notable: “Inferring transportation modes from GPS trajectories using a convolutional neural network” (2017) · 399 citations
- John S. Schwartz, Director of Tennessee Water Resources Research Center and Professor h-index 23
Notable: “Stream geomorphology, bank vegetation, and three‐dimensional habitat hydraulics for fish in midwestern agricultural streams” (2003) · 106 citations
- Angel Palomino, Associate Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Biogeochemical processes and geotechnical applications: progress, opportunities and challenges” (2013) · 786 citations
- Candace Brakewood, Associate Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Sharing riders: How bikesharing impacts bus ridership in New York City” (2017) · 293 citations
- Richard M. Bennett, Emeritus Professor h-index 16
Structures. He formerly was the director of the Engineering Fundamentals Division , teaching in the freshman engage program. Bennett is a licensed professional engineer in Tennessee. View his full CV. Research Engineering education Mason
Notable: “Bidirectional Behavior of Structural Clay Tile Infilled Frames” (1999) · 176 citations
- Frank Loeffler, Goodrich Chair of Excellence in Civil Engineering h-index 16
Notable: “DIRECT GENE ANALYSIS OF CHORIONIC VILLI: A POSSIBLE TECHNIQUE FOR FIRST-TRIMESTER ANTENATAL DIAGNOSIS OF HAEMOGLOBINOPATHIES” (1981) · 186 citations
- Timothy Truster, Research Professor h-index 16
Structures with an emphasis on the development of computational techniques for the modeling of advanced materials. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Tennessee. Dr. Truster resigned his tenured position in 2025 to p
Notable: “3.0 - MOOSE: Enabling massively parallel multiphysics simulations” (2024) · 160 citations
- Mark Denavit, Associate Professor h-index 15
Notable: “A Synopsis of Studies of the Monotonic and Cyclic Behavior of Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Members, Connections, and Frames” (2008) · 65 citations
- Robert Dodds Jr., Research Professor h-index 14
Notable: “The Preparation and Some Properties of a Reduced Diphosphopyridine Nucleotide Dehydrogenase from the Snake Venom Digest of a Heart Muscle Preparation” (1962) · 86 citations
- Adrian Gonzalez, Lecturer h-index 11
Notable: “Considering landscape-level processes in ecosystem service assessments” (2021) · 159 citations
- Chris Wilson, Research Assistant Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Cyber Risk, Market Failures, and Financial Stability” (2017) · 83 citations
- Sarah Donaher, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Notable: “Inclusion of Intra- and Interspecific Facilitation Expands the Theoretical Framework for Seagrass Restoration” (2021) · 34 citations
- Oriana Calderón, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools” (2021) · 36 citations
- Benjamin Fennell, Lecturer h-index 4
Broadly include water treatment (PFAS, DBPs, & advanced reduction/oxidation), water quality, and water system modeling. Fennell is passionate about engineering education and teaches several national review courses to prepare civil engin
Notable: “Critical Review of UV-Advanced Reduction Processes for the Treatment of Chemical Contaminants in Water” (2022) · 142 citations
- Sarah Mobley, Senior Lecturer h-index 2
Notable: “Determination of safety factors for structural bamboo design applications” (2020) · 8 citations
- Jennifer Retherford, Distinguished Lecturer h-index 2
Notable: “Impacts of a University-wide Service Learning Program on a Senior Undergraduate Capstone Course” (2016) · 3 citations
- Abdulrazak Abdulghafour, Associate Professor of Practice
. Complementing his academic background, Abdulghafour has carved a distinguished career steering and advising on many large-scale infrastructure ventures encompassing roads, bridges, airports, and tunnels. Education PhD Civil and Environmen
- Anna Herring, Assistant Professor
- Baoshan Huang, Edwin G. Burdette Professor
- Chris Cox, Department Head and Robert M. Condra Professor
Include: Bioenergy Production Mathematical Modeling of Metabolic and Genetic Regulatory Systems Modeling of Engineered Pollution Control and Remediation Systems Education PhD The Pennsylvania State University in Environmental Engineering, 1
- Fuhar Dixit, Assistant Professor
- Hongyu Nick Zhou, Associate Professor
Es on smart and energy-efficient building systems and built environment, with an emphasis on using innovative materials, designs, and cyber-physical technologies to improve the life-cycle performance of buildings and infrastructures. Resear
- Larry Millet, Research Associate Professor
- Terry C. Hazen, Governor's Chair for Environmental Biotechnology
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.