News
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 & CDM Smith Professor Jerome F. Hajjar will be honored with the SSRC Lynn S. Beedle Award, a lifetime achievement award, at the upcoming 2024 SSRC Annual Stability Conference and become the president of the Structural Engineering Institute 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 studying how to get people to use clean energy when it’s available by remotely adjusting thermostats.
Aug 09, 2023
Baiyu Chen, CEE PhD Student, Receives SEAMASS Scholarship
Baiyu Chen has been awarded the Structural Engineers Association of Massachusetts (SEAMASS) scholarship at the SEAMASS 2023 Annual Dinner Meeting & Presentation this past May. Chen, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering under Professor Jerome Hajjar, demonstrated exceptional passion and commitment to the field, earning recognition and support from the association. Chen’s […]
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.
Jul 25, 2023
Predicting River Floods in New England
MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Muñoz is using satellite imagery and AI to develop a predictive model for river flooding in New England.
Jul 17, 2023
ASCE Thomas A. Lenox ExCEED Leadership Award for Contributions to Civil Engineering Education
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has awarded W. Samuel Easterling, James L. and Katherine S. Melsa Dean of Engineering at Iowa State University, and Jerome F. Hajjar, CDM Smith Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, the 2023 Thomas A. Lenox Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) Leadership Award for extraordinary leadership in civil engineering education.