School of Engineering
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
Research Interests include but not limited in:
Hobbies - avid tennis player, scuba diving, and snow skiing (hope to travel to both S. Korea and Japan for that winter sport)
Shahram Khosrowpanah, PhD, PE
Interim Dean, School of Engineering
Ujwalkumar D. Patil, PhD, PE
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
Patil received his PhD in Civil Engineering with specialization in Geotechnical Engineering
from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2014. He earned his Master of Science
in Geotechnical Engineering from San Diego State University, California in 2008, and
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Pune University in India. He has Professional
Civil Engineer (PE-Civil) license from the State of Texas, USA. He is a member of
the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Patil has been involved in writing proposals and working on funded research projects
for various funding agencies such as: National Science Foundation, Texas Department
of Transportation, and US Department of Transportation. His research interests include
laboratory soil testing and field instrumentation, static and dynamic characterization
of saturated and unsaturated geo-materials, modeling of hydro-thermo-mechanical behavior
of geo-materials, land-slides and slope stability analysis.