Dr. Arvin Farid is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering. After earning his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston in 2004, Dr. Farid served as an Associate Research Scientist with The Gordon CenSSIS (Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems). Since joining Boise State, Dr. Farid has been involved with a variety of projects. His research interests include stimulation of geoenvironmental remediation technologies, dam and levee health monitoring, subsurface sensing, sensor fusion for rapid soil characterization, and contaminant detection using radar. In addition to teaching several engineering courses, Dr. Farid has supervised both graduate and undergraduate student research projects. Recent publications have included articles in ASCE - Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, IEEE - Transactions of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics. Dr. Farid has two active research awards from NSF (National Science Foundation) and ITD (Idaho Transportation Department).
Articles and Conference Proceedings
Experimental Validation of a Numerical Forward Model for Tunnel Detection Using Cross-Borehole Radar (with Jose A. Martinez-Lorenzo, Akram N. Alshawabkeh, and Carey M. Rappaport), Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (2012)
The goal of this research is to develop an experimentally validated twodimensional (2D) finite difference...
Interaction Between Electromagnetic Waves and Transport in Saturated Media (with Mahsa Azad, Harlan Sangrey, Jim Browning, and Elisa Barney Smith), Annual Congress of the Geo-Institute of ASCE (Geo-Congress) (2012)
Air sparging is one of the most popular remediation technologies. However, it is limited to...
An Experimental Setup for Electromagnetic Stimulation of Geoenvironmental Applications (with Harlan Sangrey and Jim Browning), Proceedings of the Geo-Frontiers 2011 Conference, Geotechnical Special Publication (2011)
Cleaning contaminated soil/groundwater is important to federal and state agencies. Traditional contaminant removal methods are...
An Experimental Setup for Electromagnetic Stimulation of Air Sparging (with Harlan Sangrey and Jim Browning), Proceedings of the ASCE GeoFlorida 2010 Conference, Geotechnical Special Publication (2010)
The task of cleaning leakage from aging underground tanks along with surface spills of gasoline...
Cross-Well Radar I: Experimental Simulation of Cross-Well Tomography and Validation (with Akram N. Alshawabkeh and Carey M. Rappaport), Journal of Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering (2009)
This paper explains and evaluates the potential and limitations of conducting Cross-Well Radar (CWR) in...
Contributions to Books
Electromagnetic Waves in Contaminated Soils (with Akram N. Alshawabkeh and Carey M. Rappaport), Electromagnetic Waves Propagation in Complex Matter (2011)
Soil is a complex, potentially heterogeneous, lossy, and dispersive medium. Modeling the propagation and scattering...
Presentations
Effects of Electromagnetic Stimulation on Soil’s Hydraulic Conductivity (with Jonathan Rocha and Jim Browning), College of Engineering Poster Presentations (2011)
Our research involves the identification of the different effects that electromagnetic (EM) stimulation has on...
Mapping the Electric Fields for Geotechnical Applications (with Sara Kaster, Harlan Sangrey, Liam McCormick, Logan Jensen, Adam Spiegelman, and Jim Browning), College of Engineering Poster Presentations (2011)
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s) such as gasoline are contaminating our country's groundwater. From leaky underground...
Tunnel detection using cross borehole radar (with Clay Kurison, Akram N. Alshawabkeh, and Carey M. Rappaport), I-PLUS Presentations (2006)
Shallow tunnels present both military and homeland security threats. Smugglers with intentions of avoiding border...