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Feb 08, 2023

$3.1M ARPA-E Award for Building a Carbon Negative Future With Steel and Cross Laminated Timber

CEE CDM Smith Professor and Chair Jerome Hajjar is leading a $3.1 million award from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The multi-institutional team of researchers will develop a new carbon sequestration technique using cross-laminated timber composite floor systems in bolted steel construction for building structures.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Feb 08, 2023

Devastating Earthquakes Demonstrate the Need for Old Infrastructure Retrofits

CEE Professors Jerome Hajjar, Mehrdad Sasani, and Mishac Yegian, who are experts in the field of earthquake engineering, advise that older structures should be retrofitted with modern standards to help prevent the devastating collapses that happened during the recent earthquakes in Turkey.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jan 25, 2023

Spring 2023 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research

Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Spring 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jan 25, 2023

The Dependencies Between El Niño and River Flow

Research conducted by ECE Professor Jennifer Dy and CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly on “Explainable Deep Learning for Insights in El Niño and River Flows” was published in Nature.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jan 24, 2023

Faculty and Staff Awards 2023

Faculty and staff in the College of Engineering were recognized at the annual awards event in a variety of categories for their contributions during the 2022-2023 academic year.

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jan 18, 2023

Atmospheric Rivers Can Lead to Massive Flooding and Deaths

MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz and CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly explain how atmospheric rivers can lead to devastating floods.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jan 04, 2023

Northeastern Hosts Offshore Wind Tech Week

CEE department hosted the first Offshore Wind Technical Week, which brought together members of the scientific community, researchers, academia and the offshore wind engineering industry from around the world.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jan 04, 2023

Northeastern Co-op Wins Fall 2022 Scholarship From DN Tanks

Amelia Negrete, E’24, civil engineering, was chosen as the winner of a Fall 2022 DN Tanks scholarship, which is awarded to co-ops or interns “who make unique contributions and exhibit DN Tanks’ Core Values.”

Civil & Environmental Engineering