About


Kalehiwot Nega Manahiloh, Ph.D., P.E. (DE, VA), P.C.A
Affiliated Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Delaware
E-mail: knega(at)udel.edu

Dr. Kalehiwot Nega Manahiloh is an Affiliated Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware. He graduated from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia in 2004 with a B.Sc. degree and completed a M.Sc. degree in Civil/Structural Engineering in 2009. Manahiloh received a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Washington State University (WSU) in 2013. Manahiloh received Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at WSU. Manahiloh’s research interests include (1) Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, (2) Micro-geo-mechanics, (3) Nondestructive Evaluation of Geomaterials, and (4) Laboratory, Field, and Numerical evaluation of soil-structure systems. Manahiloh teaches geotechnical engineering at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He also served as Undergraduate Civil Engineering Curriculum Committee member, Undergraduate Coordinator for the Geotechnical group in the Civil Engineering program, and advised undergraduate and graduate students. Manahiloh is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Ethiopian Society of Civil Engineers (ESCE), United States Universities Council on Geotechnical Education and Research (USUCGER), and American Geophysical Union (AGU). Additionally, Manahiloh serves as the administrator of the Washington Center for X-ray and Imaging Technology (WACXIT). He is a member in the ASCE-GI’s Unsaturated Soils and Computational Geotechnics Committees. He is also a “friend” to TRB’s Committee on engineering behavior of unsaturated soils.

Other research interests: Ground improvement, image processing, and soil physics.