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Dec 14, 2018

PROTECT Researchers evaluate Hurricane Maria’s Impact and suggest a ‘Visionary Rebuilding’ plan for Government Institutions

The PROTECT Center, led by CEE Professor Akram Alshawabkeh, studies exposure to environmental contamination in Puerto Rico and its contribution to preterm birth. It is funded through the National Institute […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dec 14, 2018

Future-Use Architecture

CAMD/CEE Assistant Professor David Fannon is working with Michelle Laboy and Peter Wiederspahn from the School of Architecture to design buildings that can stand the test of time and can be easily converted to meet future needs.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dec 14, 2018

Hajjar and Padir’s Collaborative Work Highlighted at CRDR Workshop

CEE Chair and CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar and ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir are collaborating on a research project for post-disaster assessment of critical infrastructure such as bridges using small unmanned aircraft systems.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dec 14, 2018

Sustainability Education: It’s All Fun and Games

Associate Teaching Professor Kathryn Schulte Grahame’s first-year corner stone students partnered with the Museum of Science to create interactive games that would educate children on sustainability.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dec 10, 2018

Increasing Resiliency of Cities

Mary Elizabeth (Lizzy) Warner, PhD Interdisciplinary Engineering ’20 and her team were awarded second place from the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Crisis Management Case Challenge for their innovative proposal specifying how to increase the resiliency of cities.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dec 06, 2018

Improving an Integral Boston Feature – The Charles River

Max Rome, PhD in Civil Engineering ’21, recently led a team of four who were awarded a grant from the inaugural Sasaki Foundation Design Awards.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Nov 29, 2018

CEE Professor Ganguly to deliver invited keynote at National Academies workshop

CEE Professor Auroop R. Ganguly was invited as a keynote speaker at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) workshop on “Frontiers on Big Data, Modeling, and Simulation in Urban Sustainability” organized by the National Academies’ Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics.

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

Nov 20, 2018

CEE Professor Ganguly receives funding grants from NASA Ames and US DOE's PNNL

CEE Professor Auroop R. Ganguly has received two funding grants, one from NASA Ames via the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute for machine learning in earth sciences and engineering and another from the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for network-based cyber-resiliency analysis of critical infrastructures.

Civil & Environmental Engineering