News
Jan 08, 2018
New Faculty Spotlight: Aron Stubbins
Aron Stubbins joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in January 2018 as an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in Marine and Environmental Sciences.
Dec 19, 2017
Low-Stress Bicycle Networks
CEE Professor Peter Furth was awarded a grant from the Helen and William Mazer Foundation for a proposal entitled “Low-Stress Bicycle Network Planning: New Methods for Network Analysis and Improvement, with Application in Greater Boston.”
Dec 13, 2017
Determining the Environmental Health of Puerto Rico
Alejandro Rovira, S’19, spent his co-op working with the Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT) and the Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development (CRECE), led by CEE Professor and COE Associate Dean of Research Akram Alshawabkeh, to determine the environmental health of those in Puerto Rico.
Dec 01, 2017
Assessing Water Quality After a Storm
CEE Professors April Gu (PI), Akram Alshawabkeh (co-PI), and Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto (co-PI) were awarded a $100K NSF grant to determine a “Timely Assessment of Water Quality to Reveal the Potential Ecological and Health Impact of Hurricanes at Puerto Rico”.
Nov 21, 2017
Eckelman Wins BSCE Clemens Herschel Award
CEE Assistant Professor Matt Eckelman and his former Ph.D. student Mithun Saha have won the Clemens Herschel Award from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, for their paper entitled “Urban Scale Mapping of Concrete Degradation from Projected Climate Change.”
Nov 21, 2017
Onnis-Hayden Wins NEWEA Clair N. Sawyer Award
CEE Associate Professor Annalisa Onnis-Hayden has won the 2017 Clair N. Sawyer Award from the New England Water Environmental Association.
Nov 13, 2017
Mueller to Work on $2.7M DARPA Collaboration Grant
CEE/COS Assistant Professor Amy Mueller, in collaboration with University of Washington and CalTech, will work on a $2.7M DARPA grant for the “Implementation of a synthetic Anammox bio-granular technology in the main wastewater treatment line.”
Nov 07, 2017
Engineering and Public Policy Student Spotlight: Sarah Sanchez
Sarah Sanchez believes technology can be used to improve life by minimizing risks and undesirable impacts and by enrolling in the MS in Engineering and Public Policy program, she is exploring the interface between technology and society.