Alexander Cheng

Professor and Chair
Department of Civil Engineering

University of Mississippi

Tel: (662)915-5362, Fax: (662)-915-5523 Email: acheng@olemiss.edu




 Degree
Ph.D. (Cornell)
M.S. (Missouri)
B.S. (National Taiwan)
Professional Registration
Professional Hydrogeologist

Research Interest


Poromechanics, magneto-poromechanics, micromechanics, geomaterials, computational techniques.

Dr. Cheng is a registered Professional Hydro-geologist, and has recently been elected as the Vice President for Academic Affairs of the American Institute of Hydrology. He also organized the First International Conference on Water Resources Management (Greece, 2001); and the first International Conference on Saltwater Intrusion and Coastal Aquifers- Monitoring, Modeling, and Management, (Morocco, 2001). Dr. Cheng has been working in the areas of poromechanics and numerical methods. Poromechanics studies materials with pores and embedded inhomogenieties, which can be rocks permeated with fluids, foams filled with air, or resin embedded with fibers. These materials can interact with mechanical, magnetic, and electric forces. Dr. Cheng is the recipient of the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize of ASCE, the Basic Research Award of the U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics, National Research Council, and the Eminent Scientist Award of Wessex Institute of Technology. He is the author and editor of about a dozen books and has published about 100 journal articles.

Personal web page: www.olemiss.edu/~acheng