Mandar Dewoolkar
Professor and Chair
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
- Gund Fellow
BIO
Mandar Dewoolkar is Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UVM. He has over 20 years of experience as a researcher, consultant and educator. Since 2003, he has worked with 3 postdocs and over 25 graduate and 50 undergraduate students on a variety of research projects.
His scholarship is a mix of fundamental and applied research, which aims at understanding the effects of environmental and human-induced loadings and hazards on natural and engineered materials, structures, and systems. He collaborates with hydrologists; structural, environmental, transportation, mechanical, aerospace and electrical engineers; geographers; geologists; historic preservationists; statisticians; and education and social scientists. He has been a principal or co-principal investigator on research grants totaling over $6 million from agencies such as the National Science Foundation, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Department of Transportation, National Park Service, National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Vermont Space Grant Consortium, Vermont Agency of Transportation, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources and Vermont Water Resources & Lake Studies Center.
Awards and Achievements
Mandar received UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Outstanding Faculty Performance award in 2017, Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007, and Outstanding Service Learning Faculty Award in 2010; Vermont Campus Compact's 2011 Engaged Scholar Award, and the Eramus Mundus International Visiting Scholarship to spend Fall 2010 semester at the International Consortium of Structural Anayslis of Monuments and Historical Construction, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal.
Area(s) of expertise
Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, Hazard mitigation, Natural and built infrastructure, Engineering applications for heritage preservation, Geotechnical aspects of space exploration, Engineering education
Bio
Mandar Dewoolkar is Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UVM. He has over 20 years of experience as a researcher, consultant and educator. Since 2003, he has worked with 3 postdocs and over 25 graduate and 50 undergraduate students on a variety of research projects.
His scholarship is a mix of fundamental and applied research, which aims at understanding the effects of environmental and human-induced loadings and hazards on natural and engineered materials, structures, and systems. He collaborates with hydrologists; structural, environmental, transportation, mechanical, aerospace and electrical engineers; geographers; geologists; historic preservationists; statisticians; and education and social scientists. He has been a principal or co-principal investigator on research grants totaling over $6 million from agencies such as the National Science Foundation, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Department of Transportation, National Park Service, National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Vermont Space Grant Consortium, Vermont Agency of Transportation, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources and Vermont Water Resources & Lake Studies Center.
Awards and Achievements
Mandar received UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Outstanding Faculty Performance award in 2017, Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007, and Outstanding Service Learning Faculty Award in 2010; Vermont Campus Compact's 2011 Engaged Scholar Award, and the Eramus Mundus International Visiting Scholarship to spend Fall 2010 semester at the International Consortium of Structural Anayslis of Monuments and Historical Construction, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal.
Areas of Expertise
Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, Hazard mitigation, Natural and built infrastructure, Engineering applications for heritage preservation, Geotechnical aspects of space exploration, Engineering education