Open Positions and Assistantships

M.S./Ph.D. Research and Teaching Assistantships at Tufts University

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Tufts University has several research and teaching assistantship positions available for students interested in pursuing an M.S. or Ph.D. degree within a dynamic interdisciplinary research environment. These research assistantships will pay the full tuition plus a monthly stipend. Tufts is located only six miles from historic downtown Boston in Medford, Massachusetts.

Some of the ongoing research topics in the CEE are:

• Interactions between water, environment, health and policy (contact Prof. Shafik Islam)
• Flow, transport, and reaction within porous media (see IMPES)
• Water quality modeling (contact Prof. Steve Chapra)
• Geohydrology of deep groundwater, and reactive flows in faults (contact Prof. Grant Garven)
• Bridge design and preserving design intelligence (contact Prof. Brian Brenner)
• Bridge structural health monitoring (contact Prof. Masoud Sanayei & Prof. Brian Brenner)
• Floor vibrations for sensitive equipment and human comfort (contact Prof. Masoud Sanayei & Prof. Eric Hines
• Seismic Design and Earthquake Engineering (contact Prof. Eric Hines)
• System and damage identification of civil structures, experimental modal analysis, and continuous health monitoring of bridges (contact Babak Moaveni)
• Earthquake and landslide hazard (contact Prof. Laurie Baise and see Geohazards Engineering)
• Siting of wind energy turbines (see Geohazards Engineering and Prof. Lewis Edgers)
• Nonlinear mechanics, Contact Prof. Luis Dorfmann.
• Water: Systems, Science, and Society (see www.tufts.edu/water and Prof. Paul Kirshen)
• Hydromorphology of urbanizing watersheds (contact Prof. Richard Vogel)
• Occupational health risks (contact Prof. David Gute)
• Industrial ecology (contact Prof. Stephen Levine)