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Civil Engineering 324K
Muniram Budhu
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Regents' Professor Emeritus of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics
Education
- PhD, Civil Engineering (Geomechanics), Cambridge University, England, 1979
- BS, Civil Engineering (First Class Honors), University of the West Indies, Trinidad, West Indies, 1974
Registration
- Registered Professional Civil Engineer (Arizona, Florida)
Research Interests
- Land subsidence and earth fissures from groundwater pumping
- Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to monitor ground movements
- Constitutive laws for engineering materials including cemented soils
- Model based simulation of civil engineering systems
- Application of numerical methods to engineering problems
- Static and seismic behavior of soils and foundation systems
- Retaining walls and slopes
- Modern communication technologies in engineering education
Courses
- CE 214: Statics
- CE 218: Mechanics of Fluids
- CE 343: Geotechnical Engineering and Design
- CE 441/541: Earth Structures in Geotechnical Engineering
- CE 440/540: Foundation Engineering
- CE 444/544: Special Topics in Geomechanics
- CE 446/546: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering