Structures News
Apr 05, 2024
Expanding a Structural Engineering Co-op into a Full-Time Position
Terenia Hankewycz, civil engineering, E’22, was able to go more in-depth with each co-op in the civil engineering industry. With a particular focus on structural engineering, she returned to one of her co-ops full-time after graduation.
Dec 11, 2023
Improving Structural Health and Climate Change with Machine Learning
CEE Assistant Professor Eleonora Tronci is a structural engineer who uses machine learning to assess damage in civil structures and optimize wind farms while focusing on the adaptability of her research to climate change. She joined Northeastern in September 2023.
Dec 06, 2023
Caracoglia Part of Team to Test Life Size Buildings Against Simulated Tornados
CEE Professor Luca Caracoglia is part of a team of researchers across nine universities who have been given a four-year, $14 million grant by the NSF to design a facility that can test tornado effects on real-life scale building models.
Oct 31, 2023
Time Magazine Names Northeastern Research-supported Company’s Turbine Towers to Best Inventions of 2023 List
Time Magazine selected the spirally welded wind towers as one of “The Best Inventions of 2023,” highlighting the innovative and efficient approach developed by Keystone Tower Systems with support from CEE Professor Andy Myers.
Sep 28, 2023
Hajjar Serves as President of Structural Engineering Institute Beginning October 2023
Jerome F. Hajjar, PhD, PE, F.ASCE, F.SEI, CDM Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, and member of the National Academy of Engineering, becomes the President of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) in October 2023.
Aug 09, 2023
Baiyu Chen, CEE PhD Student, Receives SEAMASS Scholarship
Baiyu Chen, civil and environmental engineering PhD student, has been awarded the Structural Engineers Association of Massachusetts (SEAMASS) scholarship. SEAMASS is a non-profit, member-driven organization that holds a mission to advance the structural engineering profession.
Mar 08, 2023
Training the Coming Generation of Grid-Interactive Efficient Building Operators
CEE Assistant Professor Michael Kane received a $750,000 award from the US Department of Energy to develop a training program for vocational technology high schools and community colleges that improves entry-level building operators’ literacy in grid-interactive efficient buildings.
Feb 08, 2023
Building a Carbon Negative Future with Steel and Cross Laminated Timber
In a new $3.1M grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), Northeastern Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair and CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar will lead a multi-institution team of researchers developing a new carbon sequestration technique using cross-laminated timber composite floor systems in bolted steel construction for building structures.