News
Aug 16, 2011
Preventing Ground Failure Due to Earthquakes
CEE Professors Mishac Yegian and Akram Alshawabkeh were awarded a $1.2M NSF grant to use Induced Partial Saturation (IPS) to try and prevent ground liquefaction from occurring under structures during earthquakes.
Aug 16, 2011
COE Alum appointed MassDOT Highway Administrator
Frank DePaola, a MS’84 graduate in civil engineering, has been appointed the highway administrator for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
Aug 10, 2011
Prof. Bernal Researches New Energy Dissipation Strategies for Buildings
Professor Dionisio Bernal has received a $161,580 grant from the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) from the National Science Foundation to estimate damping in buildings during earthquakes.
Aug 02, 2011
Prof. Sasani Receives $540K NSF Grant
CIV Associate Professor Mehrdad Sasani was awarded a $540K grant from NSF’s National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program to determine the effect of seismic activity on reinforced concrete framed buildings.
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Kathryn Schulte Grahame
Kathryn Schulte Grahame joined the department in Fall 2011 as an Assistant Academic Specialist. As part of her Gateway Faculty appointment she will teach freshman engineering courses as well as […]
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Daniel P. Saulnier
Daniel P. Saulnier joined the Department in Fall 2011 as an Assistant Cooperative Education Coordinator. In addition to bringing first-hand experience in cooperative education, he also has expertise in sustainable […]
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Annalisa Onnis-Hayden
Annalisa Onnis-Hayden was appointed Assistant Academic Specialist in the Fall 2011 semester after working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Professor April Gu within the department for the last several […]
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Andrew T. Myers
Andrew T. Myers joined the department in August 2011 as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Myers' research interests are centered on a combination of multi-scale experimental testing, computational simulation, and probabilistic […]