Engineering Systems and Management

Research in Environmental and Water Resources Systems Engineering is concerned with the development and application of quantitative methods for the evaluation, planning and operation of water resource and environmental systems. Efforts address the integration and analysis of engineering and economic-policy issues posed by the need to manage water, land, air and human resources, as well as environmental remediation efforts. The fundamental sciences upon which such analyses are based include hydrology, hydraulics, environmental sciences, biology, and environmental engineering.

A transportation system includes vehicles, network infrastructure, and information technology, used both for monitoring and control and to provide information to users of the system. The interactions of people with the system are especially complex and important. Our current faculty are pursuing research including automated traveler information systems, freight transportation and security concerns, transportation of hazardous materials, and air quality issues in urban transportation. Study in transportation systems engineering often includes work in related areas such as economics, operations research, systems engineering, city and regional planning, and management

Understand how systems-level behavior emerges from component wise interactions, by combining mathematical modeling with data science, nonlinear dynamics, numerical simulation, optimization, and stochastic processes methods to enable insightful physical, chemical, and biological modeling of individual system components and their interactions. Complex Systems Engineering research spans a wide range of application domains such as cyber physical systems, environmental fluids, microbial communities, renewable energy, synthetic biology, transportation, infrastructure, and power networks.