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Dean Li published his second book with title of “The Immersion Method for Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation: Applications for Sustainability” by CRC Press. The book comprehensively explores the synergy between microbiology and engineering, focusing on MICP and its applications in material improvement and environmental remediation. Highlighting the immersion method, the book elucidates MICP's ability to enhance mechanical properties uniformly throughout treated materials, offering a sustainable alternative for various engineering challenges. Emphasizing its applications in civil engineering and environmental management, the book showcases MICP's efficacy in ground improvement, crack repair, and soil stabilization, alongside its potential for mitigating environmental contamination. It examines the potential to create environmentally sustainable and resilient construction materials. It discusses various applications of MICP across critical areas of civil engineering and environmental management, including ground improvement, crack repair, and remediation of contaminated environments. The book provides a detailed examination of MICP-treated materials' long-term durability and performance under various environmental conditions. The 300-page book is the first type of book with such comprehensive work in the MICP. Civil Engineering faculty Dr. Shihui Liu is also co-author.

Please insert the attached photo. Dr. Li also published another book with title of “Hydraulics of Levee Overtopping” in 2020. This book presents a cutting-edge approach to understanding overtopping hydraulics under negative free board of earthen levees, and to the study of levee reinforcing methods. Combining soil erosion test, full-scale laboratory overtopping hydraulics test, and numerical modeling for the turbulent overtopping hydraulics, it provides an analysis that integrates the mechanical and hydraulic processes governing levee overtopping occurrences and engineering approaches to reinforce overtopped levees. Topics covered surge overflow, wave overtopping and their combination, full-scale hydraulic tests, erosion tests, overtopping hydraulics, overtopping discharge, and turbulent analysis.