Rate My Professor Moatassem Abdallah

Moatassem Abdallah is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Colorado Denver's College of Engineering, Design and Computing, with a focus on construction engineering and management. He earned his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as a Research Assistant from August 2008 to August 2014. In his current role, Abdallah teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including construction planning and control, building information modeling, construction management fundamentals, and construction engineering systems. Additionally, he is Co-founder and CEO of Commutrics, a company developing transportation solutions.

Abdallah's research centers on sustainability of buildings and infrastructure systems, employing operations research and management techniques to model technical, business, and social elements affecting the built environment. His interests include decision-making processes, optimal upgrade and maintenance interventions for existing buildings, employee commute behavior to minimize transportation emissions and costs, Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) systems for electricity demand optimization, community resilience, energy justice, sustainability competencies in construction engineering education, and multi-objective optimization models for construction projects to balance time, cost, quality, environmental impact, and social impact. He has authored 24 peer-reviewed journal articles and 43 peer-reviewed conference papers in journals such as Journal of Applied Energy, Automation in Construction, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Journal of Management in Engineering, and Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management. Key publications include "Electricity peak shaving for commercial buildings using machine learning and vehicle to building (V2B) system" (2023), "Innovative Optimization Model for Planning Upgrade and Maintenance Interventions for Buildings" (2022), "Time–cost–quality trade-off analysis for planning construction projects" (2019), "Multiobjective Optimization Model for Maximizing Sustainability of Existing Buildings" (2016), and "Upgrading Large Existing Buildings to Maximize Their Sustainability" (2018). Abdallah has secured approximately $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation, Colorado Department of Transportation, California Department of Transportation, California Energy Commission, Mountains Plains Consortium, and Office of Economic Development and International Trade. His contributions have been recognized with the Best Paper Award from the ASCE Construction Research Congress (2020) and the Best Paper Award from the Kiewit International Journal of Construction Engineering Research by the Associated Schools of Construction (2021).