Dr. Silva-Araya consulting experience in Puerto Rico includes work in hydrologic/hydraulic studies, hydrodynamics, sediment transport, overland erosion and local scour in bridges.  Dr Silva’s expertise includes mathematical modeling of hydraulic systems, hydraulic transients and unsteady open channel flows. He does consulting works in water resources, hydraulics and hydrodynamics for private firms and government agencies.  He also served as expert witness in several ocassions.

Doctor Silva-Araya is working on funded research.  His major research interest is in erosion and sedimentation, vegetative waterways, unsteady closed and open channel flow, rehabilitation of hydraulic structures, enviromental hydraulics and numerical modeling of hydraulic systems. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in fluid mechanics, water resources and advanced hydraulic engineering. Dr. Silva-Araya serves as reviewer for the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE and is member of CIAPR, and IAHR.

  Dr. Silva-Araya has trained professional engineers and technitians during the last 20 years in local and international events, offering short-courses, seminars and workshops in hydraulic modeling and design, design of stormwater systems, erosion and sedimentation control measures. He publishes in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

Engineering Geology (in Romanian) Undergraduate Programme

Engineering Geology (in English) Undergraduate Programme

Geotechnical Engineering (in Romanian) Undergraduate Programme

Geotechnical Engineering (in English) Undergraduate Programme

Special Issues on Geotechnical Engineering Aspects  Undergraduate Programme

Foundations in Difficult Foundation Soils  Undergraduate Programme

Engineering Geology Complements  Master Programme

Foundations of Special Buildings Master Programme

Mis áreas de trabajo profesional y de investigación sin principalmente: la mecánica de estructuras, la mecánica analítica y computacional, vibraciones y problemas de interacción, teoría de control, procesos aleatorios y sistemas de reducción de vibraciones.

Dr. Fan’s primary research interests include operations research, transportation network modeling & optimization, traffic operations and simulation, transportation safety and crash analysis, transportation systems planning and demand forecasting, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), and application of advanced econometric methods in transportation, as well as computer software development. Dr. Fan serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions – Intelligent Transportation Systems while also serving as a member of three other transportation journal editorial boards. Dr. Fan also serves as a member on the National Science Foundation (NSF) review panel, the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) panel and three Transportation Research Board (TRB) committees. He has been working as an active ad hoc reviewer for more than 20 prestigious journals as well as the national Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) (2010 version). He was selected by the students as the Best Civil Engineering Professor of the Year 2007 at The University of Texas at Tyler and was a proud ASCE Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) Teaching Fellow in 2007.

Dr. Fan has been and is involved in many sponsored projects (over 10 million dollars in funding), having been principal or co-principal investigator on many research studies for the U. S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), SHRP2 Education Connection, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). He is currently working tirelessly on seeking funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) and Charlotte Department of Transportation (Charlotte DOT). He had published more than 80 journal articles, proceeding papers and technical reports on transportation network modeling, transportation systems planning, traffic operations and simulations, traffic safety and crash analysis, pavement M&R project selection optimization, operations research applications in transportation, and ITS. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas.

He is a tenured full professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying of the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR), the Director of the Transportation Infrastructure Research Center, the Coordinator of the Professional Development Program in Transportation Infrastructure Inspection PUPR/ACI-Herzog, the Co-Coordinator of the Undergraduate Research Program for Honor Students, the Co-PI of the PUPR-Rutgers Consortium, part of the University Transportation Center sponsored by the FHWA and lead by Rutgers University that focuses in Transportation Infrastructure Resilience, and the Co-Coordinator of the ACE FE and CE/PE licensee exams review seminars offered at PUPR. And he is also a past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Puerto Rico Section, and a current member of the Earthquake Commission of the College of Engineers and Land Surveyors of Puerto Rico (CIAPR). He has successfully mentored over 70 students in applied undergraduate and graduate research projects, many of them related to inspection and evaluation of infrastructure, its performance and resilience.