Civil Engineering - Faculty & Staff

application of finite element and continuum damage mechanics. Currently he is involvedin a NSF funded project to implement Superpave design principles in the civilengineering curriculum using sophisticated laboratory equipment. His main areas ofteaching include aspects transportation engineering, general engineering courses, finiteelement analysis techniques and solid mechanics.Dr. Goang S. LiawProfessorEnvironmental EngineeringEmail: goang.liaw@aamu.eduPh: (256) 372-5566Dr. Goang S. Liaw, Professor of Department of Civil Engineering, joined the departmentin 1980. He is specialized in environmental engineering and water resources. His mainteaching responsibilities are in the areas of Environmental Engineering, engineeringmechanics, hydrogeology, and fluid mechanics. Dr. Liaw has approximate twenty-sixyears of college teaching experience, and has more than twenty years of research andmanagement experience in university, government, and military research projects. He hasbeen successful in proposal writing and publications. He has planned, directed andexecuted several research projects at AAMU with contract values in excess of twomillion dollars, and has authored over 40 technical articles, reports, and papers based onhis research work. His current environmental research interests include applyingnanotechnology in water and air purifications, spatial database of contaminants,numerical modeling of surface and groundwater contamination, and environmentaleducation. Dr. Liaw has been heavily involved in Computational Fluid Dynamics formany years. He has a strong background in the numerical modeling and analyses of fluidflow. He has received many research projects in the areas of low density viscous nozzleflow, hypersonic viscous flow, and crystal growth modeling through NASA, US AirForce, US Army and NSF. Dr. Liaw is the recipient of the 2006 NASA Administrator'sFellowship Program (NAFP) award.Dr. Nesar AhmedProfessorGeotechnical EngineeringEmail: nesar.ahmed@aamu.eduPh: (256) 372-4149Dr. Nesar U. Ahmed, P.E., Professor of Civil Engineering, joined thedepartment in 1988. He is specialized in geotechnical engineering, reinforced concretedesign, and structural steel design. His main teaching responsibilities are in soilmechanics and foundation design. He has taught graduate courses part-time at theUniversity of Alabama in Huntsville for the past seven years. Dr. Ahmed has been aconsultant to industry for the past eight years. Dr. Ahmed has the Professional Engineerlicense from several states.