CEE Research Awards, Publications, Honors

CEE Research Awards (Principal Investigators in bold)

  • olyainlabDr. John Daniels, “Collaborative Research: Engineered Water Repellency to Mitigate Frost Susceptibility: Decoupling Osmotic and Matric Potential”, $67,062 supplement ($402,377 total) to create data-driven methodologies, NSF

  • Dr. Mariya Munir, “Degradation of Antibiotic Resistance Genes Using Hydroxyl and Sulphate Radicals”, NCSU WRRI, $10,000; “Wastewater based tracking of SARS‐CoV‐2 across Charlotte region in North Carolina”, $45,791, City of Charlotte; CDC National Wastewater Surveillance System COVID-19 pilot study in NC; 01/2021-06/2021, $160,654 (co-PI with 5 other universities, NCDHHS and NC DEQ)

  • Dr. Srinivas Pulugurtha, “Mineta National Transportation Research Consortium (MNTRC)”, $299,994, US DOT and NCDOT and “CoE Advanced Transportation Technologies”, $80,854, NCDOT

  • Dr. Mei Sun, “Evaluate the impact of land-applied biosolids on the occurrence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in North Carolina water sources”, North Carolina Department of Justice, 4/1/2021-3/30/2022, $101,792 and “Heat-Activated Persulfate Regeneration of Ion Exchange Resins for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Treatment”, North Carolina Urban Water Consortium, 3/1/2021-2/28/2022, $120,000

  • Dr. Wei Fan, NCDOT “Center of Excellence on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles”, $62,307, NC A&T State University and USDOT

  • Dr. Brett Tempest, NSF “Developing Engineering Academic Pathways for Low Income Students”, $379,052; NCDOT “Evaluating Corrosive Site Performance and Policy with Concrete Admixtures”, $277,222

  • Dr. Nicole Braxtan, Arclin “Experimental Fire Testing”, $33,785; Tindall “Full Scale Testing Program T-Slab System”, $75,425

  • Dr. Jim Bowen, Jordan Lake, “Developing an Estimate of Nutrient Load Reductions for Jordan Lake”, $117,396

  • Dr. James Amburgey, Evoqua, “Regenerative Media Filter Testing for Removing Crypto-sized Particles in Aquatics”, $100,000

Journal Publications (CEE Faculty in bold)

  1. Brazell, L.R., Stetz, S., Hipp, A., Taylor, S., Stark, N., Jensen, K., Juel, M.A.I., Deegan, P., Munir, M., Schlueter, J. and Weller, J.W. (2021). Environmental Screening for Surface SARS-CoV-2 Contamination in Urban High-Touch Areas. medRxiv.

  2. Gibas, C., Lambirth, K., Mittal, N., Juel, M.A.I., Barua, V.B., Brazell, L.R., Hinton, K., Lontai, J., Stark, N., Young, I., Quach, C., Russ, M., Kauer, J., Nicolosi, B., Chen, D., Akella, S., Tang, W., Schlueter, J. and Munir, M., 2021. Implementing building-level SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance on a university campus. Science of The Total Environment, p.146749.

  3. Han, Y., Pulikkal, V.F., Sun, M. Comprehensive Validation of the Adsorbable Organic Fluorine Analysis and Performance Comparison of Current Methods for Total Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Water Samples. ACS ES&T Water, 2021.

  4. Li, Y. and Fan, W., Mixed Logit Approach to Modeling the Severity of Pedestrian-Injury in Pedestrian-Vehicle Crashes in North Carolina: Accounting for Unobserved Heterogeneity, Accepted for Publication, Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, September 2020.

  5. Li, Y. and Fan, W., Optimizing Transit Equity and Accessibility of the City of Charlotte by Integrating Transit Gap Index, A General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Data Relevant Performance Metric, Accepted for Publication, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, November 2020.

  6. Li, Y., Song, L. and Fan, W., Day-of-the-Week Variations and Temporal Instability of Factors Influencing Pedestrian Injury Severity in Pedestrian-Vehicle Crashes: A Random Parameters Logit Approach with Heterogeneity in Means and Variances, Analytic Methods in Accident Research, Volume 29, March 2021, 100152.

  7. Lin, Z. and Fan, W., Exploring Bicyclist Injury Severity in Bicycle-vehicle Crashes Using Latent Class Clustering Analysis and Partial Proportional Odds Models, Accepted for Publication, Journal of Safety Research, November 2020.

  8. Liu, P. and Fan, W., Analyzing Injury Severity of Rear-End Crashes involving Large Trucks Using a Mixed Logit Model: A Case Study in North Carolina, Accepted for Publication, Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, August 2020, https://doi.org/10.1080/19439962.2020.1812784.

  9. Liu, P. and Fan, W., Exploring the Impact of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles on Mobility and Environment at Signalized Intersections through Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Infrastructure-to-Vehicle (I2V) Communications, Accepted for Publication, Transportation Planning and Technology, October 2020.

  10. Liu, P. and Fan, W., Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) Model for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction in Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Environment, Accepted for Publication, Promet – Traffic & Transportation, April 2021.

  11. Liu, S. and Fan, W., Investigating Factors Affecting Injury Severity in Vehicle-Cyclist Crashes: A Day-of-Week Analysis with Partial Proportional Models, Accepted for Publication, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, August 2020.

  12. Liu, S. and Fan, W., Investigating Operational Performance of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles on Signalized Superstreets, Accepted for Publication, Transportation Planning and Technology, April 2021.

  13. Liu, S., Fan, W. and Li, Y. Injury Severity Analysis of Rollover Crashes for Passenger Cars and Light Trucks Considering Temporal Stability: A Random Parameters Logit Approach with Heterogeneity in Means and Variances, Accepted for Publication, Journal of Safety Research, March 2021.

  14. Mamun, M. M., Sorinolu, A. J., Munir, M., & Vejerano, E. P. (2021). Nanoantibiotics: Functions and Properties at the Nanoscale to Combat Antibiotic Resistance. Frontiers in Chemistry, 9, 348.

  15. Silva, A.O.D, Armitage, J.M., Bruton, T.A., Dassuncao, C., Heiger-Bernays, W., Hu, X.C., Kärrman, A., Kelly, B., Ng, C., Robuck, A., Sun, M., Webster, T.F., Sunderland, E.M., “PFAS Exposure Pathways for Humans and Wildlife: A Synthesis of Current Knowledge and Key Gaps in Understanding”, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2021, 40 (3), 631-657.

  16. Song, L. and Fan, W., Exploring Truck Driver-Injury Severity at Intersections Considering Heterogeneity in Latent Classes: A Case Study of North Carolina, Accepted for Publication, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, December 2020.

  17. Song, L., Fan, W., Li, Y. and Wu, P., Exploring Pedestrian Injury Severities at Pedestrian-Vehicle Crash Hotspots with An Annual Upward Trend: A Spatiotemporal Analysis with Latent Class Random Parameter Approach, Accepted for Publication, Journal of Safety Research, December 2020.

  18. Song, L., Fan, W. and Liu, P., Exploring the Effects of Connected and Automated Vehicles at Fixed and Actuated Signalized Intersections with Different Market Penetration Rates, Accepted for Publication, Transportation Planning and Technology, April 2021.

  19. Song, L., Li, Y., Fan, W. and Liu, P., Mixed Logit Approach to Analyzing Pedestrian Injury Severity in Pedestrian-Vehicle Crashes in North Carolina: Considering Time of Day and Day of Week, Accepted for Publication, Traffic Injury Prevention, February 2021.

  20. Song, L., Li, Y., Fan, W. and Wu, P., Modeling Pedestrian-Injury Severities in Pedestrian-Vehicle Crashes Considering Spatiotemporal Patterns: Insights from Different Hierarchical Bayesian Random-Effects Models, Analytic Methods in Accident Research, Volume 28, December 2020, 100137.

  21. Sorinolu, A.J., Tyagi, N., Kumar, A. and Munir, M. (2020). Antibiotic Resistance Development and Human Health Risks during Wastewater Reuse and Biosolids Application in Agriculture. Chemosphere, p.129032.

  22. Zhou, F., Li, C.F., Huang, Z., Xu, R.H. and Fan, W., Fare Incentive Strategies for Managing Peak-Hour Congestion in Urban Rail Transit Networks, Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, July 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/23249935.2020.1793028

  23. Zhou, J., Baumann, K., Mead, R.N., Skrabal, S., Kieber, R., Avery, G., Shimizu, M.S., DeWitt, J.C., Sun, M., Vance, S.A., Bodnar, W., Zhang, Z., Collins, L.B., Surratt, J.D., Turpin, B.J., “PFOS Dominates PFAS Composition in Ambient Fine Particulate Matter (PM 2.5) Collected Across North Carolina Nearly 20 Years After the End of Its US Production”, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2021.

  24. Zhu, W., Xiao, X., Huang, Z. and Fan, W., Evaluating the Wheelset Health Status of Rail Transit Vehicles: Synthesis of Wear Mechanism and Data-Driven Analysis, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, Volume 146, Issue 12, 2020.

  25. Mahedi, M., Satvati, S., Cetin, B., and Daniels, J.L. “Chemically Induced Soil Water Repellency and the Freeze-Thaw Durability of Soils”, ASCE Journal of Cold Regions Engineering, 34(3) pp. 1-7, 2020.

  26. Zhang, Y., Daniels, J.L., Cetin, B., Baucom, I.K. (2020) “Effect of Temperature on pH, Conductivity, and Strength of Lime-Stabilized Soil” ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering Vol. 32 (3), pp. 1-12, 2020.

  27. Daniels, J.L. (2020) Engineered Water Repellency for Applications in Environmental Geotechnology. In: Reddy K.R., Agnihotri A.K., Yukselen-Aksoy Y., Dubey B.K., Bansal A. (eds) Sustainable Environmental Geotechnics. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 89. Springer.

Faculty Honors and Professional Society Recognition (CEE faculty in bold)

  • Drs. Wei Fan and Zhen Chen, Most Cited Article for the Year 2020, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, January 2021

  • Dr. Wei Fan, Member, Committee on Access Management (ACP60), Transportation Research Board (TRB), National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering, 4/15/2021 – Present

  • Dr. Wei Fan, Member, Committee on Light Rail Transit Systems (AP075), Transportation Research Board (TRB), National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering, 4/15/2021 – Present