News
Aug 18, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Khaled Ghannam
Khaled Ghannam joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in August 2023 as an Assistant Professor.
Aug 18, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Eleonora Tronci
Eleonora Tronci joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in September 2023 as an Assistant Professor.
Aug 18, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Nancy Larson Varney
Nancy Larson Varney joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in August 2023 as an Associate Teaching Professor.
Aug 16, 2023
Hajjar Honored With Lynn S. Beedle Award From Structural Stability Research Council
CEE Chair and CDM Smith Professor Jerome F. Hajjar received the SSRC Lynn S. Beedle Award from the Structural Stability Research Council. He also was elected president of the Structural Engineering Institute, with his term beginning on October 1, 2023.
Aug 11, 2023
Clean Energy Might Go To Waste If We Don’t Figure Out How To Use It
CEE Assistant Professor Michael Kane is the lead researcher on Whole Energy Homes, which is funded by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and is the first study to explore people’s reactions to utilities controlling their thermostats in a residential setting. The study focuses on how to get people to use clean energy when it’s available by remotely adjusting thermostats.
Aug 09, 2023
CEE PhD Student Receives SEAMASS Scholarship
Baiyu Chen, a civil and environmental engineering PhD student, has been awarded the Structural Engineers Association of Massachusetts (SEAMASS) scholarship. SEAMASS is a non-profit, member-driven organization that holds a mission to advance the structural engineering profession.
Aug 02, 2023
How Low-Flow Events Are Affecting the Mississippi River
MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Muñoz’s research on “Mississippi River Low-Flows: Context, Causes, and Future Projections” was published in Environmental Research: Climate.
Aug 02, 2023
Q. Jim Chen and CEE Host 2023 FUNWAVE Workshop
Northeastern University hosted the fifth FUNWAVE-TVD Training Workshop, which brought together researchers and students from around the world to discuss the use of modeling software to predict coastal hazards.