Teaching
CEE 5404 Structural Wind
Engineering
This course introduces graduate students to wind engineering, blending structural engineering with atmospheric sciences to explore how extreme winds impact buildings and critical civil structures. The course explores the formation and impact of extreme winds, bluffbody aerodynamics, aeroelastic effect on structures, design wind loads per ASCE 7 standard, introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and wind tunnel testing techniques, including a field trip to the wind tunnel at the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety.
CEE 3404 Introduction to
Structural Engineering
This course equips undergraduate students with essential analytical tools to compute internal forces, reactions, and displacements in simple structural systems such as trusses, beams, and frames. The course explores load paths, limit states, deflected shapes, shear and moment diagrams, deflection using Principle of Virtual Work, indeterminate analysis of structures using method of consistent deformation, and software modeling with tools like MASTAN, while highlighting the role of structural analysis in design and failure prevention.
CEE 5420 Computer Methods
of Structural Analysis
This course prepares graduate students to formulate and implement the stiffness method for analyzing statically determinate and indeterminate structures, including 2D & 3D trusses, beams, grids, and 2D & 3D frames. The course emphasizes assembling stiffness matrices analytically, writing programs (with MATLAB ) to compute deflections and forces.