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May 23, 2018

Erin Dillmann, E’20, Honored with ACEC/MA 2018 President’s Scholarship

CEE student Erin Dillmann, E’20, received a prestigious 2018 President’s Scholarship awarded by the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts Education Corporation.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

May 22, 2018

ASCE Concrete Canoe Team Places 4th

The ASCE Concrete Canoe team placed 4th out of 12 teams overall in technical qualifications at the 2018 ASCE New England Student Conference held on April 29 at the University […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

May 22, 2018

NUASCE Steel Bridge Team Successful at Competition

Congratulations to the Northeastern ASCE Steel Bridge Team for their success at the New England Regional Student Conference on April 28, 2018 at the University of Vermont. Finished 4th Overall […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

May 21, 2018

2018 GRI Seed Grant Awardees

Congratulations to the four COE teams out of eight total receiving 2018 Seed Grant funding from the Global Resilience Institute (GRI). The resilience project topics range from coastal flooding prediction […]

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

May 15, 2018

Determining Effect of Climate on Mississippi River Flooding

MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz will be leading a $595K NSF grant for “Extreme floods on the lower Mississippi River in the context of late Holocene climatic variability” in collaboration with Liviu Giosan and Jeffrey Donnelly from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Zhixiong Shen from Coastal Carolina University.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

May 15, 2018

Improving Emergency Response Wayfinding

CEE Assistant Professor Qi “Ryan” Wang (PI) and MIE Associate Professor Yingzi Lin (co-PI) were awarded a $200K NSF grant for “Personalized Systems for Wayfinding for First Responders”.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 10, 2018

Northeastern Debuts New Drone Testing Facility

A drone cage was built at the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security which will allow faculty like CEE Chair & CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar and ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir to develop drones to evaluate damage to structures after disasters.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

May 06, 2018

SDS Lab students and alums enjoy spate of success stories

Three PhD students of the Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory (SDS Lab), viz., Kevin Clark, Babak Fard, and Thomas Vandal, successfully defended their dissertations last month. Vandal received the College […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering