News
Feb 09, 2024
First-Ever National Offshore Wind Research Center
CEE Professor Andrew Myers, CEE/MIE Associate Research Professor Nathan Post, and CEE CDM Smith Professor and Department Chair Jerome Hajjar, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a consortium of forty partners, were selected to join a first-of-its-kind $11.9 million DOE research center, Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW), dedicated to accelerate reliable and equitable offshore wind energy deployment across the nation. It will focus on workforce development, targeted research, and partnerships and strategies to embed equity in offshore wind development.
Feb 02, 2024
How Sunlight Degrades Marine Plastics
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins was featured in the PBS Instagram post “How Sunlight Degrades Marine Plastics.” This research was published as “Molecular Signatures of Dissolved Organic Matter Generated from the Photodissolution of Microplastics in Sunlit Seawater” in Environmental Science & Technology and “Photochemical dissolution of buoyant microplastics to dissolved organic carbon: Rates and microbial impacts” […]
Feb 01, 2024
Faculty and Staff Awards 2024
The College of Engineering recognized faculty and staff at the annual faculty and staff awards event and thanked everyone for their hard work and dedication in support of our students, college, and university during the 2023-2024 academic year. View award recipients and photo gallery.
Jan 29, 2024
Auroop Ganguly Named Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery
Ganguly’s foundational advances in computer science and engineering include special temporal machine learning, examination of big data and small data challenges such as for climate extremes, hybrid physics-AI systems that integrate process knowledge and numerical models with AI or data-driven systems to the new age of data and artificial intelligence, as well as graphical and network models for climate science and impact analysis.
Jan 29, 2024
Sustainably Designing the New Tallest Building in the US
CEE Chair & CDM Smith Professor Jerome F. Hajjar explains why the construction of a new building in Oklahoma City is a milestone for sustainability and resilience in civil and environmental engineering.
Jan 23, 2024
Shifting to High-Speed Rail in the US for a Decarbonized Future
CSSH/CEE Associate Professor Serena Alexander explains the necessary efforts and investments in rail infrastructure to introduce eco-friendly high-speed rail in the U.S.
Jan 18, 2024
Engineers Without Borders Experience Leads to Pursuit of an MS in Engineering and Public Policy
Melanie Marino, MS in Engineering and Public Policy, and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, was drawn to advance her education in public policy after a trip with Engineers Without Borders to Tanzania, which required working with the local government to help a village with an unreliable supply of electricity.
Jan 18, 2024
CEE Co-op Student Wins Fall 2023 Scholarship from DN Tanks
Amy Xu, E’25, civil engineering and architectural studies, received the DN Tanks Fall 2023 Scholarship, which recognizes students on co-op at the company who excel in their work and make contributions at DN Tanks.