06/03/2024
Since Fall 2020, Isabel Morris has been an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at New Mexico Tech. She earned her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University, where she received an NSF GRFP to use nondestructive geophysical techniques to characterize and diagnose concrete and historic structures.
Dr. Morris has supervised geophysical field surveys as part of larger engineering and cultural resource management projects, including of the Princeton Battlefield State Park, a pedestrian bridge, and damaged temples in Kathmandu. Her experience spans structural health monitoring, conservation, and nondestructive testing. Her professional experience includes serving as a Graduate Writing Fellow, running summer Applied Geophysics and Advanced Geophysical Field Techniques workshops in Romania, and working with STEM diversity and outreach initiatives.
At New Mexico Tech, her research program includes archaeological, structural, and environmental applications of ground penetrating radar and nondestructive testing. This covers a number of different projects related to estimating in situ physical properties, such as compressive strength or density, particularly in construction materials like concrete; in addition, she is involved in long term culvert asset management and research with the NM DOT and two projects applying GPR to hydrological monitoring and near surface fault geometries. At NMT, she teaches core Civil Engineering courses like Structural Analysis and Finite Element Analysis, as well as special topics courses on structural health monitoring and nondestructive testing.
