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Mar 14, 2023

CEE IAB Chair Christine Keville Elected Member of National Academy of Engineering

Christine Keville E’90, Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Keville Enterprises, Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Industrial Advisory Board, and an MS graduate from the department, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). She was inducted for promoting diversity in the engineering profession through business success, mentoring students and […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mar 08, 2023

Training the Coming Generation of Grid-Interactive Efficient Building Operators

CEE Assistant Professor Michael Kane received a $750K 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.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mar 01, 2023

Celebrating National Engineers Week 2023

The College of Engineering celebrated National Engineers Week with events including a ‘Break the Mold’ Fireside Chat with award-winning engineer and commentator Dr. Shini Somara and Dean Gregory Abowd; Cookies with the Dean event, which included snacks, photo and video booths, COE swag and a lot of COE pride; Breakout sessions with Shini Somara with select students and faculty showing our progressive engineering program, research, and community; and an Engineering for Everyone Expo hosted by the Center for STEM Education.

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Feb 21, 2023

‘Very simple things’: Earthquake engineers on what went wrong in Turkey

CEE Professor Mehrdad Sasani was featured in the Middle East Eye article “‘Very simple things’: Earthquake engineers on what went wrong in Turkey.”

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Rozanna Riley

Feb 09, 2023

Riley Receives Black Heritage Award

CEE Operations Manager Rozanna Riley was selected to receive the Black Heritage Award, which is given to those Northeastern staff and administrators in recognition of their dedicated service to Northeastern, to the students, and/or to the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute. She will be presented the award on February 22, 2023 at the Black […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

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.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Feb 08, 2023

Devastating Earthquakes Demonstrate the Need for Old Infrastructure Retrofits

CEE Professors Jerome Hajjar, Mehrdad Sasani, and Mishac Yegian, who are experts in the field of earthquake engineering, advise that older structures should be retrofitted with modern standards to help prevent the devastating collapses that happened during the recent earthquakes in Turkey.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jan 25, 2023

Announcing Spring 2023 PEAK Experiences Awardees

Several engineering students and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Spring 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards. Base Camp Awardees Sophia Nguyen COE’26, “Neuromodulation of Motor Cortex’s Response to Different Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Pulse Waveforms” Mentor: Mathew Yarossi, Bouvé, Physical Therapy/Movement/Rehab Science This project seeks to use transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a noninvasive […]

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering