Environmental Engineering: water supply and treatment facilities, municipal and industrial waste treatment, flocculation and coagulation of wastes, solid waste and hazardous waste management, modeling of environmental systems, groundwater pollution, groundwater exploration, coastal groundwater, nonpoint source pollution, stormwater management, river and estuary hydrology, hydraulics and water quality.

Geotechnical Engineering: geoacoustic modeling and properties of marine sediments, sediment sampling, in-situ testing, deep-sea sedimentary processes, sediment transport, creep processes, environmental geotechnology, dredge material disposal, experimental geomechanics, soil-structure interaction, constitutive modeling of geological materials, particulate mechanics, applications of nonlinear finite element and discrete element methods to geomechanics problems, earthquake engineering, wave propagation in granular media, dynamic soil properties, liquefaction, geosynthetics.

Structural Engineering: matrix and finite element analysis, computer and numerical methods, deterministic and stochastic structural dynamics, earthquakes, system identification, fatigue, design of steel and concrete structures, marine structures, structural stability, thin-walled structures, coastal structures, vibration control, soil-structure interaction, condition assessment and rehabilitation of bridges, structural safety and reliability, structural health monitoring, extreme event analysis.

Transportation Engineering: properties of pavement materials, pavement theory and design, pavement management system, highway location, geometric design, traffic operation and control, transportation cost, transportation supply and demand analysis, and transportation system analysis.