News
Sep 09, 2010
ChE Alum Donates $12M
Chemical Engineering Alumnus George J. Kostas has donated $12M to build a homeland security research facility on Northeastern's Burlington Campus. This is the largest donation for capital in the University's history.
Sep 01, 2010
New Faculty Spotlight: Philip Larese-Casanova
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering welcomes Assistant Professor Philip Larese-Casanova, who joined the faculty in Fall 2010 after serving as a post-doctoral research associate at the Institute for Biospheric Studies at Yale University and the Center for Applied Geosciences at the Eberhard-Karls University Tuebingen in Germany.
Aug 10, 2010
Monitoring Water Quality
Xioadan Ruan, a CEE PhD student under the direction of Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger, has been testing bacteria levels in the Charles River in hopes that it will once again be swimmable.
Jul 01, 2010
Deborah A. Snyder (BSCE 1999) wins the 2010 Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement from the ASCE
The Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement is made to younger members of ASCE who are judged to have attained significant professional achievements by the degree to which […]
Jun 28, 2010
Bernal Receives NSF Grant
CIV Professor Dionisio Bernal received a $130K NSF grant to explore his research Algorithm-Fused High Performance Damage Detector: Optimal Sensor Distributions.
Jun 28, 2010
Congratulations
Beverly Jaeger, Susan Freeman, Rich Whalen, & Rebecca Payne won Best Paper for PIC III as well as Best Paper Overall at the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference for their paper “Successful Students: Smart or Tough?”. Both awards will be announced in the November issue of Prism.
Jun 01, 2010
ASCE Life Member Awards
Rick Scranton, long-time CEE faculty member and College of Engineering Associate Dean, and Fred Aufiero, of Kleinfelder SEA Consultants and Chair of the CEE Industrial Advisory Board, have been awarded Life Member status from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Jun 01, 2010
The Manganaro Family (Anthony Manganaro, BSCE 1967)
The Manganaro Family (Anthony Manganaro, BSCE 1967) have openned the door to higher education for high-potential students by providing the Torch Scholars Program an additional $7.5 million gift.