Graduate Study

Both graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in the Department of Civil Engineering have unique opportunities to participate in research carried out at the WEFL.  Graduate students either are  affiliated with the Hydraulics and Wind Engineering Division or are pursuing individual graduate program, supervised by the academic staff of the WEFL.   

The requirements for the graduate degrees (M.S. and Ph.D.) are specified in the Graduate Catalog of the Department of Civil Engineering.  Both the degrees require a specified number of course and research credits.  Graduate courses taught by the WEFL's staff include: CE502 Fluid Mechanics, CE504 Wind Engineering, CE505 Experimental Methods, CE562  Fundamentals of Vibrations, CE603 Wind Effects on Structures, CE604 Turbulent Transport and Diffusion, CE607 Computational Fluid Dynamics, CE703 Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics, and CE767 Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 

The scope of wind engineering research carried out by graduate students affiliated with WEFL is well represented by the following sample of titles of their dissertations and theses: Turbulence Effects on Wind-Induced Building Pressure (Ph.D.), Analysis of Building Wind Pressure Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Autoregressive Moving Average and Neural Networks (Ph.D.), Wind Loading on Loose-Laid Roofing Paver Systems (Ph.D.), Large Eddy Simulation of Flow Past a Square Cylinder Using Finite Element Method (Ph.D.), Wind-Tunnel Modeling of Low-Rise Structures (Ph.D.), Digital Synthesis of Wind Pressure Fluctuations on Building Surfaces (Ph.D.), Physical Modeling of Tornado Vortices (M.S.), Physical Modeling of Wind-Forced Natural Ventilation (M.S.), Haar Transform Analysis of Approach Flow and Dislodging of Roofing Pavers (M.S.), Wind Tunnel Study of Full Aeroelastic Roof Model (M.S.), Fluctuations of Area-Averaged Wind Pressures on Low-Rise Buildings (M.S.), and others.