Dr. MD Jobair Bin Alam

Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Direct: (936) 261-1652
Department: (936) 261-1665
Fax: 936-261-1662
Email: mdalam@pvamu.edu

Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory with sophisticated equipment.
Materials Testing Laboratory.
Collaboration with College of Agricultural and Human Science and access to Research and demonstration farm (RDF). The RDF has an advanced research testbed (~400m x 400m) equipped with an eddy covariance flux tower to measure evapotranspiration (ET), greenhouse gases, hydrologic and climatic parameters.

Research and Innovation @ PVAMU – Research and Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (RISE). Award $10,000. Title: “Finite Element Modeling (FEM) Based Slope Stability Analysis of Highway Embankment for Harris County, Texas”. PI: Md Jobair Bin Alam, Ph.D., P.E. Project Start: September 2021

National Science Foundation (NSF): Research Initiation Award (RIA) – Award $299,267. Title: “Synthetic Turf for Advanced Engineering Landfill Closure System”. PI: Md Jobair Bin Alam, D., P.E., Project Start: August 2021.

Transportation Consortium of South-Central State (Tran-SET) of United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) – Award $70,000. Title: “Investigation of the Impact of Rainfall Patterns on Highway Slope Instability”. PI: Md Jobair Bin Alam, Ph.D., P.E., Co-PIs: Raghabha Kommalapati, Ph.D., P.E., Hatim Sharif, Ph.D., P.E., Samer Dessouky, Ph.D., P.E. Project Start: August 2021.

Transportation Consortium of South-Central State (Tran-SET) of United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) – Award $60,000. Title: “Potential Use of Renewable Diesel for Transportation in Texas and its Environmental Impacts Under Uncertainties Caused by COVID-19”. PI: Raghabha Kommalapati, Ph.D., P.E., Co-PIs: Md Jobair Bin Alam, Ph.D., P.E., Hongbo Du, Ph.D. Project Start: August 2021.
Transportation Consortium of South-Central State (Tran-SET) of United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) – Award $66,687. Title: “Coupled Situational Awareness System to Improve Transportation Infrastructure Performance During Extreme Events”. PI: Hatim Sharif, Ph.D., P.E., Co-PIs: Md Jobair Bin Alam, Ph.D., P.E., Samer Dessouky, Ph.D., P.E., Raghabha Kommalapati, Ph.D., P.E., Project Start: August 2021.
Research and Innovation @ PVAMU – Research and Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (RISE). Award $10,000. Title: “Experimental Investigation of Desiccation Cracking Behavior of Houston Soil”. PI: Md Jobair Bin Alam, Ph.D., P.E. Project Start: September 2020

Alam, M. J. B., Rahman, N., Seraj, F., & Hossain, M. S. Monitoring and Evaluation of Evapotranspiration of Water Balance Cover. In IFCEE 2021 (pp. 169-178).

Alam, M. J. B., Rahman, N., Bhandari, P., & Hossain, M. S. Behavior of Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Water Balance Cover Measured through Field Instrumentation. In IFCEE 2021 (pp. 330-338).

Alam, M. J. B., Ahmed, A., Islam, M. A., Rahman, N., & Hossain, M. S. (2021). Field monitoring and model predicted water balance of monolithic cover. In MATEC Web of Conferences (Vol. 337, p. 04009). EDP Sciences.

Alam, M. J. B., Ahmed, A., Hossain, M. S., & Rahman, N. (2021). Estimation of percolation of water balance cover using field scale unsaturated soil parameter. In MATEC Web of Conferences (Vol. 337, p. 04005). EDP Sciences.

Ahmed, A., Alam, M. J. B., Pandey, P., & Hossain, M. S. (2021). Estimation of unsaturated flow parameters and hysteresis curve from field instrumentation. In MATEC Web of Conferences (Vol. 337, p. 01008). EDP Sciences.

Ahmed, A., Alam, M. J. B., Islam, M. A., & Hossain, M. S. (2021). Comparison of numerical modeling results from laboratory and field obtained unsaturated flow parameters. In MATEC Web of Conferences (Vol. 337, p. 02008). EDP Sciences.

Alam, M. J. B. (2020). Moisture content monitoring of evapotranspiration (ET) cover using geophysical testing. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2020 (pp. 2004-2008). Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Alam, M. J. B., Sarker, L., Sapkota, A., Ahmed, R., & Hossain, M. S. (2020, February). Evaluation of Soil Water Storage (SWS) of Evapotranspiration Cover through Geophysical Investigation. In Geo-Congress 2020: Modeling, Geomaterials, and Site Characterization (pp. 444-453). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers.

Alam, M. J. B., DeVries, B., Rahman, N., & Hossain, M. S. (2019, March). Field Hydrologic Performance of Water Balance Cover in North Texas. In Geo-Congress 2019: Geoenvironmental Engineering and Sustainability (pp. 95-104). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers.

Alam, M. J. B., & Hossain, M. S. (2019, March). Evaluation of Post-Construction Changes in Soil Hydraulic Properties through Field Instrumentation and In Situ Testing. In Geo-Congress 2019: Geotechnical Materials, Modeling, and Testing (pp. 722-732). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers.

Alam, M. J. B., Hossain, M. S., Sarkar, L., & Rahman, N. (2019, March). Evaluation of Field Scale Unsaturated Soil Behavior of Landfill Cover through Geophysical Testing and Instrumentation. In Geo-Congress 2019: Geoenvironmental Engineering and Sustainability (pp. 1-11). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers.

Hoyos, L., Alam, M. J. B., Hossain, M. S., & Haney, B. (2019, March). Monitoring Seasonal Variation of Soil Hydraulic Conductivity of Evapotranspiration (ET) Cover. In Geo-Congress 2019: Geoenvironmental Engineering and Sustainability (pp. 72-81). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers.

Bin Alam, M. J., Hossain, M. S., Ahmed, A., & Khan, M. S. (2017). Comparison of Percolation of Flat and Slope Section Vegetated Lysimeters Using Field Soil Water Characteristic Curve. In PanAm Unsaturated Soils 2017 (pp. 28-37).

Ahmed, A., Hossain, M. S., Bin Alam, M. J., & Khan, M. S. (2017). Moisture and Matric Suction Behavior in Unsaturated Subgrade through Field Instrumentation and Numerical Modeling. In PanAm Unsaturated Soils 2017 (pp. 226-235).