News
Dec 20, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Yu (Rain) Miao
Yu (Rain) Miao joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in January 2023 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Marine and Environmental Sciences.
Dec 20, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Cristina Schultz
Cristina Schultz joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in January 2023 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Marine and Environmental Sciences.
Dec 17, 2022
First-Ever Global Survey of Earth’s Surface Water
NASA has launched a Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite that will support global water applications led by CEE Professor Edward Beighley. Launched on December 16, 2022, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite will, for the first time, simultaneously measure elevations and extents of the Earth’s surface waters at high resolution.
Dec 07, 2022
CEE Hosts Offshore Wind Symposium
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering hosted the National Offshore Wind Research & Development Symposium 2022, featuring keynote speaker former U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III.
Nov 10, 2022
How Northeastern’s Roux Institute Is Using Real-time Data To Bring Industry 4.0 to Maine
Jack Lesko, MIE/CEE professor and director of engineering research at the Roux Institute, is a proponent of Industry 4.0—also known as the fourth Industrial Revolution—to build manufacturing resilience, enabling companies to respond to regional and global needs based on real-time data.
Nov 04, 2022
Insect Population Decline To Effect Pollination
Kate Duffy, PhD’21, interdisciplinary engineering, has been studying the effect of climate change on insect populations and their important role in our ecosystem. Her research was published in Nature Climate Change.
Nov 02, 2022
2022 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
A group of COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
Oct 27, 2022
Effect of Climate Change on Ecological Populations
CEE Affiliated Faculty Tarik Gouhier and Professor Auroop Ganguly’s research on “Climate-mediated Shifts in Temperature Fluctuations Promote Extinction Risk” was published in Nature Climate Change.