Mohammed Gabr

Background

About Mohammed Gabr

Mohammed (Mo) Gabr is Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and Construction at North Carolina State University specializing in Geotechnical/Geoenvironmental Engineering. Mo has supervised and co-supervised more than 100 graduate students, including 37 Ph.D.s, and numerous undergraduate students in more than 25 years at West Virginia University and North Carolina State University. His consulting experience included working on high-profile projects for industry and government in the US, Mexico, and Europe. These included offshore platforms in the North Sea, many waste management and containment facilities across the US as well as dams, levees, and mechanically stabilized earth structures in Mississippi, Washington, California, and Illinois. As a co-principal investigator, he has conducted 50 different research projects with a total research budget in excess of $12 million. Funding for his research has come from various sources including the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Highway Administration, and the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Together with his students, their research findings have been incorporated into industry including the Well Injection Depth Extraction (WIDE) approach for soil remediation, and his research findings on the use of waste by-products and properties of waste materials. His research on response of drilled shafts on slopes has promulgated many State Departments of Transportation's codes and has been broadly adopted by practicing engineers. His current research activities include working on the subject of soil scour with his students to develop a device he termed In Situ Erosion Evaluation Probe (iSEEP) as well as performing research on the detection and stabilization of soft soils and establishment of performance-based limit states for protective earth structures subjected to severe coastal storms.