Five College of Engineering faculty earn promotions
May 3, 2006
The LSU Board of Supervisors announced the promotions of College of Engineering faculty members Khalid A. Alshibli, Steve C.S. Cai, Marcio S. DeQueiroz, Louay N. Mohammad and Ashok Srivastava.
Khalid A. Alshibli, P.E., assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been promoted with tenure to the rank of associate professor. His areas of specialization include experimental soil mechanics, soil constitutive modeling, foundation engineering, behavior of granular materials under very low effective stresses, utilizing digital imaging techniques and computed tomography to study the internal structure of geomaterials.
Steve C.S. Cai, P.E., also an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has also been promoted with tenure to the rank of associate professor. His areas of specialization include bridge engineering, pre-stressed concrete, wind engineering, structural dynamics, structural performance evaluation and rehabilitation.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Marcio S. DeQueiroz has also been promoted with tenure to the rank of associate professor. His areas of specialization include nonlinear adaptive and robust control with emphasis on applications to electromechanical, mechanical and aerospace systems, as well as active magnetic and mechanical bearings.
Louay N. Mohammad, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been promoted to the rank of professor. Mohammed is the director of the Engineering Materials Characterization Research Facility for the Louisiana Transportation Research Center. His research interests include the fundamental characterization of transportation materials, flexible pavement design and analysis, pavement instrumentation and computational and experimental mechanics.
Finally, Ashok Srivastava, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has also been promoted to the rank of professor. Ahsok’s areas of specialization include low power VLSI circuit design, VLSI design for wireless communications, RF MEMS and integrated circuits, smart sensors and CMOS-MEMS microsystems, semiconductor device modeling and radiation-hardened integrated circuits, to name a few.
“On behalf of the College of Engineering, I would like to congratulate Khalid, Steve, Marcio, Louay and Ashok on their promotions. As members of our expert faculty, they contribute to our programs being ranked nationally and play an integral role in attaining the University’s Flagship status,” said Dean Zaki Bassiouni
