University of Southern California
department name USC Viterbi School of Engineering
 
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Sponsored Research Activities in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • ITR Solutions for Exchange and Utilization of Geotechnical Information
    Principal Investigator: Jean-Pierre Bardet
    Co-P.I.: Roger Zimmermann
    Agency: NSF
    Performing Period: 2003 - 2007
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  • Metrans: National Center For Metropolitan Transportation Research
    Principal Investigator:  Sami Masri
    Agency: Department of Transportation
    Performing Period: 2007-2008
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  • US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Investigation of Groundwater Flow Heterogeneity In Fractured Aquifers Using Stochastic Modeling...
    Principal Investigator: Dongxiao Zhang
    Agency: NSF
    Performing Period: 2007 - 2008
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  • New Technologies for Particulate Source Apportionment
    Principal Investigator: Ronald Henry
    Agency: EPA
    Performing Period: 2005 – 2008
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  • Collaborative Research: Experimental Imaging-Finite Element
    Principal Investigator: Amy Rechenmacher
    Agency: NSF
    Performing Period:  2005 - 2008
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  • Collaborative Determination of Reactive Oxygen…
    Principal Investigator: Constantinos Sioutas
    Agency: UCI (Prime: ARB)
    Performing Period: 2004 - 2008
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  • Ultrafine PM and Cardiorespiratory Health
    Principal Investigator: Constantinos Sioutas
    Agency: UCI (Prime: NIH)
    Performing Period: 2003 - 2008
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  • SCPC - Contribution of Primary and Secondary PM Sources To…
    Principal Investigator: Constantinos Sioutas
    Agency: UCLA (Prime: EPA)
    Performing Period: 2005 - 2010
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  • Construction and Development of a Portable Fine and Ultrafine Particle Concentrator
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Constantinos Sioutas
    Agency: NIOSH
    Performing Period: 2007 - 2008
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  • Artherogenic Effects of Ambient
    Principal Investigator: Constantinos Sioutas
    Agency: UCLA (Prime: NIEHS)
    Performing Period: 2004 - 2007
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  • Particulate Pollutants, Oxidative Stress, and Allergic Airway Inflammation
    Principal Investigator: Constantinos Sioutas
    Agency: UCLA (Prime: NIH)
    Performing Period: 2006 - 2007
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  • Physicochemical and Toxicological Assessment of The Semi-Volatile
    Principal Investigator: Constantinos Sioutas
    Agency: ARB
    Performing Period: 2006 - 2010
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  • Fine-Scale Spatial and Temporal...
    Principal Investigator: Constantinos Sioutas
    Agency: ARB
    Performing Period: 2006 - 2010
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  • AMC-SS: Computational Algorithms and Reduced Models for Stochastic PDEs
    Principal Investigator: Roger Ghanem
    Agency: NSF
    Performing Period: 2005 - 2008
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  • Collaborative Research: CMG Stochastic Quantization for Modeling the Dynamics of Regional Seismicity.
    Principal Investigator: Roger Ghanem
    Co-P.I.: Thomas Jordan, Boris Roszovsky
    Agency: NSF
    Performing Period: 2006-2009
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  • MURI: A Multidisplinary Approach to Health Monitoring and Materials and Materials Damage Prognosis for Metallic Aerospace Systems.
    Principal Investigator: Roger Ghanem
    Agency: Arizona State University-AFOSR(Prime)
    Performing Period: 2006-2011
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  • Discrepancy Sensitivity for Efficiently Choosing Computer Experiments in Design and Uncertainty Quantification.
    Principal Investigator: Erik Johnson
    Agency: NSF
    Performing Period: 2004-2007
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  • Integrated Monitoring and Smart Damping for Dynamic Hazard Mitigation
    Principal Investigator: Erik Johnson
    Agency: NSF
    Performing Period: 2001-2008
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  • Development for Probalistic Simplified Design Procedure for
    Principal Investigator: Geoffrey Martin
    Agency: Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research
    Performing Period: 2004-2007
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  • ITR: Structural Health Monitoring Using Local Excitation and Large-Scale Networked Sensing
    Principal Investigator: Sami Masri
    Co-P.I.: Ramesh Govindan (Principal Investigator) Gaurav Sukhatme, Erik Johnson; Bhaskar Krishnamachari
    Agency: NSF
    Performing Period: 2003-2007
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  • ITR: Collaborative Research: An Integrated Framework for Health Monitoring of Highway Bridges and Civil Infrastructure
    Principal Investigator: Sami Masri
    Agency: NSF
    Performing Period: 2002-2007
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  • Collaborative Research Utilizing NEES Facilities: Landslide Generated Tsunamis and Runup
    Principal Investigator: Costas Synolakis
    Agency: NSF
    Performing Period: 2004-2008
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  • Reconnaissance survey of the July 17, 2006 Central Javan earthquake and tsunami
    Principal Investigator: Costas Synolakis
    Co-P.I.:Herman Fritz
    Agency: NSF
    Performing Period: 2004-2007
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  • Development of Reduced Order Non linear Models for Simulation, Control & Monitoring
    Principal Investigator: Sami Masri
    Agency: CSULA- NASA (Prime)
    Performing Period: 2003-2008
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  • Revision, Review and Finalization of Tsunami Inundation Maps Tsunami Hazards Analyses.
    Principal Investigator: Costas Synolakis
    Agency: OES
    Performing Period: 2006- 2008
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  • Seismic Risk Management for Port
    Principal Investigator: Craig Taylor
    Agency: Georgia Tech-NSF (Prime)
    Performing Period: 2005-2007
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