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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

Mar 15, 2018

Pinto Receives NSF CAREER Award

CEE Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto was awarded a $504K NSF CAREER award for “Developing a Spatial-Temporal Predictive Framework for the Drinking Water Microbiome”.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mar 13, 2018

Ganguly & Colleagues Frame the Networked Digital Earth Concept Through the First International Conference on the Topic

The first International Conference on the Networked Digital Earth (ICNDE 2018), which was jointly organized by CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly & colleagues from Northeastern University and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, covered general principles and theory of the Networked Digital Earth concept, with a focus on network science, geospatial data sciences, machine learning and AI, while emphasizing the domains of water sustainability and climate change, urban science and engineering, public health and ecology, as well as cyber and physical security and the social media.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Feb 26, 2018

Interdisciplinary Engineering PhD Selected for Summer Institute

Interdisciplinary Engineering PhD student Kate Duffy was selected to participate in the National Water Center Innovators Program Summer Institute of 2018.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Feb 17, 2018

CEE PhD Student and Professor Publish Textbook on Critical Infrastructure Resilience

A textbook on Critical Infrastructures Resilience authored by CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly, CEE PhD student Udit Bhatia, and Political Science Professor and Director of the Global Resilience Institute Stephen E. Flynn, will be available from the publisher starting March 6, 2018.

Civil & Environmental Engineering