News
May 07, 2014
John Kennedy (BSCE, 1972) Elected International Vice President of ITE
Congratulations to John Kennedy, Northeastern Alumnus and Senior Principal and co-founder of VHB, who was recently elected as the 2014 International Vice President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). Mr. Kennedy has over 40 years of active professional experience as a traffic engineer, 38 years of active membership in ITE, including elected leadership positions […]
May 06, 2014
From climate change comes opportunity to innovate
A cursory look at the Third National Climate Assessment released Tuesday by the National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee yields a grim outlook. The authors state that climate change is already beginning to impact nearly every sector of the economy—and that’s not all: It’s already threatening human health and well being and adversely affecting our infrastructures, […]
Apr 30, 2014
Mission 31 to splash down on June 1
Nine miles off the coast of Key Largo, Fla., and 63 feet beneath the waves lies the world’s only underwater research lab: Aquarius. “There’s no place like it on earth,” said Mark Patterson, professor of marine and environmental science and civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, who has visited and lived within the “habitat” 10 times. In the years it […]
Apr 03, 2014
CEE at the 2014 SEI Structures Congress
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and colleagues from Northeastern University had a strong presence at the 2014 SEI Structures Congress that took place in Boston in April.
Mar 28, 2014
Learning from Tragedy
After the recent landslide in Washington, CIV professor & Senior Associate Dean Thomas Sheahan discusses what causes a mudslide and possible preventative measures. What is the anatomy of a landslide, and what factors increase their likelihood? There are many types of landslides, but the one that occurred in Washington state appears to be a […]
Mar 20, 2014
Congratulations to recipients of the FY15 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants
19 COE faculty were recipients of FY15 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 11 different projects representing over $500K dollars of investment in research.
Feb 07, 2014
Bold Design Concepts
The designs for the new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building were featured in ASCE’s Civil Engineering magazine.
Jan 06, 2014
Patterson Awarded Grant
Professor Mark Patterson, an affiliate of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the College of Science, was awarded a $291K grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to determine how environmental stresses affect the gastrovascular system in perforate and imperforate corals. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in […]