Musharraf Zaman

Director, Southern Plains Transportation Center

Dr. Musharraf Zaman joined the University of Oklahoma Civil Engineering and Environmental Science faculty in 1982, after completing his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, Tuscon. He was promoted to full professor in 1993, and was named the Aaron Alexander Professor in 2003. He served as the associate dean for research and graduate education, OU College of Engineering since from July 2005 to December 2013. He has been a professor of Petroleum and Geological Engineering since 2010.

He is a prolific teacher and a highly accomplished researcher. During his tenure at OU, he has received a number of prestigious national-level teaching awards from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). He also received the lifelong title of David Ross Boyd Professorship, the highest teaching award given by the University of Oklahoma. During his tenure at OU, he has received over $22.5 Million in external research funding from various state and federal agencies and industry. He has published over 390 archival papers. Several of his papers have won prestigious awards from national level societies and organizations. He is a fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Geomechanics (IJOG), ASCE. Since October 2013, he has been serving as the director of the Southern Plains Transportation Center (see http://www.sptc.org for details).

• Soil dynamics
• Rock mechanics 
• Soil structure interaction
• Flow through porous media 
• constitutive laws of engineering materials (testing and modeling)
• Mine system design and ground control
• Bridge approach settlements
• Expert systems
• Application of numerical techniques to complex geotechnical engineering problems
• Earthquake engineering
• Geotechnical aspects of hazardous waste disposal

Hydrology, water security, water resources management, reservoir operation, hydropower scheduling, artificial intelligence, data-mining, coupled human-natural systems, optimization theory, hydrologic model calibration, climate change, impacts of climate change on water-energy system, water-energy-food nexus, remote sensing precipitation