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Overview The Department of Civil Engineering at UNC Charlotte provides opportunities for discipline specific and multidisciplinary graduate-level education in civil engineering. Advanced course work and research are used enhance professional competency, and provide a master's degree. Doctoral studies leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) are available through a cooperative arrangement with North Carolina State University (NCSU). Research and teaching assistantships and tuition remission are available in the Department of Civil Engineering at UNC Charlotte on a competitive basis to highly qualified applicants.
The Transportation Program with in the Department of Civil Engineering offers graduate study in the areas of traffic operations, human factors, highway safety and work-zone analysis. (Click to learn more about College of Engineering and UNC Charlotte).
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Facilities The Department of Civil Engineering is located in the Smith Building on the UNC Charlotte campus. Facilities available for research and education in civil engineering are located in Smith, Kennedy and the C.C. Cameron Applied Research Center (CARC). Transportation research is housed in Smith Building. Equipment used to measure driver perception and reaction, to measure traffic volume, density and flow and to determine the visual quality of traffic control devices can be found in the transportation and traffic laboratories. Traffic control devices and traffic control models are also available in the laboratories. |
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Faculty
Johnny Rufus Graham, P.E., Professor of Civil Engineering, 1990, Ph.D., North Carolina State
University. Traffic Operations and Human Factors. (graham@uncc.edu)
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Richard Kane, P.E.,
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, 1990, Ph.D., North Carolina State
University. Traffic Operations and Human Factors. (mrkane@uncc.edu)
Lee Ellis King,
Professor of Civil Engineering, 1990, Ph.D., North Carolina State
University. Traffic Operations and Human Factors. (king@uncc.edu)
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Recent Projects -The Relationship between Stages of Cataract Development and Driver Legibility of Road Signs -Motorist Perception of Work-Zone Safety -Highway Sign Minimum Luminance Requirements for Older Drivers
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Selected Publications -Veterans with Cataracts: Visual Disability in Nighttime Driving, Report, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, Project Number: C2138PC, January 2001 (with Gary Mancil, L. Ellis King, Rickilyn Mancil and Justin Carroll)
-The Relationship Between Stages of Cataract Development and Driver Legibility of Roadway Signs, Report, Vision Rehabilitation Research Laboratory, W. G. Hefner VA Medical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs, December 2000 ( with Justin Carroll and L. Ellis King)
-Motorists’ Perception of Work Zone safety, (with L. Ellis King), North Carolina Department of Transportation, August, 1998
-Improve Traffic Control Device Design and Placement to Aid the Older Driver, (with R. Lyles, F. Vanosdall, & F. McKelvey), National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, December 1997
-Highway Sign Minimum Luminance Requirements for Older Drivers, “Transportation Research Record No. 1573, pp. 91-98, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 1997 (with J.R. Graham and A. Fazal)
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