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Peter Furth

Jan 10, 2025

Furth Wins Transportation Research Board Exceptional Paper Award

CEE Professor Peter Furth and his former student Milad Tahmasebi, PhD’24, civil engineering, won the Exceptional Paper Award at the 104th Annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) Meeting for “Reducing Speeding by Removing Speeding Opportunities: Field Test of Safe Waves Traffic Signal Timing.”

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jan 06, 2025

Hajjar Receives SSRC Distinguished Member Award

CEE University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor and Chair Jerome Hajjar was selected to receive the 2025 Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC) Distinguished Member Award, which is presented annually to an SSRC member who has actively served the organization for years and made outstanding contributions to its work and mission.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Fatemeh Ghoreishi

Dec 14, 2024

Using AI for Disaster Response Research

CEE/Khoury Assistant Professor Fatemeh Ghoreishi, in collaboration with the University of Utah and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, was awarded a $900,000 grant from the U.S. Army for the project, “Interactive Human-Agent Teaming Via Multiple Feedback Types,” which aims to develop advanced machine learning and optimization techniques to provide real-time guidance and recommendations for human teams operating in disaster scenarios.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dec 11, 2024

New Faculty Spotlight: Yang (Gilbert) Ye

Gilbert Ye joins the civil and environmental engineering department in January 2025 as an assistant professor.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Julia Varshavsky

Nov 27, 2024

Rapidly Screening for Environmental Toxins

Bouvé/CEE Assistant Professor Julia Varshavsky’s research on “Analyzing High-Throughput Assay Data To Advance the Rapid Screening of Environmental Chemicals for Human Reproductive Toxicity” was published in Reproductive Toxicology.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Nov 26, 2024

Propelling Efforts To Limit Worldwide Plastic Pollution

MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins is part of a delegation involved in what could be the final round in the negotiation process for an international plastic pollution treaty that would limit plastic pollution worldwide.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Nov 22, 2024

Northeastern Research Team Aids North Carolina Hurricane Relief

A student and faculty research team, led by CEE Assistant Professor Kelsey Pieper, is assisting hurricane relief efforts in North Carolina by creating databases to determine what buildings and wells have been affected by the storm. Working alongside Pieper are Professor Edward Beighley, Cassidy King, E’26, chemical engineering and environmental engineering, and Kyla Drewry, PhD’26, civil and environmental engineering

Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Oct 24, 2024

Encouraging Maine Business Leaders To Adopt Data-Driven Practices

MIE/CEE Professor Jack Lesko, who is also director of engineering research at the Roux Institute in Portland, Maine, co-led a study that revealed businesses in that state are behind international trends to implement what is known as Industry 4.0, or real-time data and automation standards.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering