News
Jan 24, 2012
Tracking MassDOT Performance
CIV Professor Ali Touran has teamed up with Pioneer Institute to create a Massachusetts Transportation Dashboard to monitor how MassDOT is using tax dollars to reduce traffic congestion and increase throughput & safety.
Jan 12, 2012
Failure by Design
CIV Chair & Professor, Jerome Hajjar, has designed a system that would allow replaceable steel fuses to absorb the forces of an earthquake and save the building from damage.
Jan 01, 2012
New Faculty Spotlight: Matthew J. Eckelman
Matthew J. Eckelman joined the Department in January 2012 as an Assistant Professor. An environmental engineer with cross-disciplinary training in the area of sustainable resource engineering and the urban environment, […]
Dec 19, 2011
Paper in Nature Climate Change Highlighted by NSF
CIV Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly’s paper about rainfall extremes over India will be published in the February 2012 issue of the Nature Climate Change journal and is highlighted on the NSF website.
Dec 16, 2011
Congratulations Carla Cherchi
Carla Cherchi, a Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student working with Professor April Gu, has been selected to receive the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Best Student Paper Award for her paper entitled," Impact of Nano Titanium Dioxide Exposure on Cellular Structure of Anabaena Variabilis and Evidence of Internalization."
Dec 07, 2011
NUASCE Student Chapter Works with Habitat for Humanity
On Sunday, December 4th, 2011, Northeastern University's American Society of Civil Engineers (NUASCE) Student Chapter worked with Habitat for Humanity on a project in Roslindale, Massachusetts.
Nov 29, 2011
CEE Department Hosts Industry Leadership Night
On November 29, 2011, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the CEE Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) hosted Industry Leadership Night with Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Richard A. Davey.
Nov 14, 2011
CEE Department Hosts Second US-Japan Workshop on Wind Hazards
On November 12, 2011, Northeastern University's Wind Engineering Research Group hosted the Second U.S.-Japan Workshop on Structural Dynamics and Monitoring of Bridges and Flexible Structures against Wind Hazards.