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Apr 09, 2018

CEE Professor Ganguly delivers invited talk on the Networked Digital Earth

CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly delivered an invited talk on “The Networked Digital Earth (NDE) for Climate Adaptation and Resilient Engineering (CARE)” at the International Conference on Geomatics in Civil Engineering (ICGCE 2018).

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Apr 09, 2018

Climate Risk Analytics Startup with Northeastern Links Receives Phase II Funding Grant

CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly’s climate analytics spinout, risQ, received $750K from NSF in the second phase of funding.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Apr 05, 2018

CEE Students win MIT Water Night Poster Competition

CEE undergraduate students Kestral Johnson and Madeline DuBois are among this year’s MIT Water Night poster winners for their research on water systems led by Professor Annalisa Onnis-Hayden. The event […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Apr 05, 2018

River Engineering of the Mississippi Might Lead to Severe Flooding

MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz is researching how the re-engineering of the Mississippi River to straighten and channelize it has had the unintended consequences of increasing the risk of severe flooding.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Apr 02, 2018

Real-time Pavement Profile Sensing System

CEE Professor Ming Wang was awarded a patent for creating a “Real-time pavement profile sensing system using air-coupled surface wave”.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mar 29, 2018

Studying How Dissolved Organic Carbon is Effecting Climate Change

COS/CEE Associate Professor Aron Stubbins is studying how carbon moves off the land, such as in frozen permafrost, and into rivers, where it eventually gets converted into carbon dioxide—a greenhouse gas that’s causing global warming.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mar 21, 2018

Building Resilient Steel Structures

CEE Chair & CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar presented the 54th annual Robert D. Klein Lecture on March 19th about the need for “Urban Engineering: New Designs for a Resilient and Sustainable Future”.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mar 16, 2018

Examining the Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse

CEE Professor & Chair Jerome Hajjar answered questions relating to the safety codes and procedures of accelerated bridge construction after the recent pedestrian bridge collapse in Miami, FL.

Civil & Environmental Engineering