News
Sep 27, 2017
Increasing Droughts Might Threaten Power Production
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly’s research found that about 27 percent of power production in the United States will be severely impacted by warmer, scarcer water.
Sep 21, 2017
Designing Robots to Detect Building Damage
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir and CEE Professor & Chair Jerry Hajjar are developing robots that can detect weaknesses in buildings and other infrastructures after a disaster.
Sep 11, 2017
Is Weather Becoming More Extreme?
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly discusses the effects of climate change on the changing weather patterns and what can be done to prepare.
Sep 11, 2017
Interdisciplinary Team to Lead $2.5M NSF CRISP Grant
COS Professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (PI) and Co-PIs Kathryn Coronges, Executive Director of the Network Science Institute; Stephen Flynn, Director of the Global Resilience Institute; ECE Professor Edmund Yeh and CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly, Director of the Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory (SDS Lab), were awarded a $2.5M NSF CRISP grant for “Interdependent Network-based Quantification of Infrastructure Resilience (INQUIRE)”.
Sep 01, 2017
Pinto Awarded $330K NSF Grant
CEE Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto was awarded a $330K NSF grant for “Deciphering the role of comammox bacteria in nitrogen removal systems”. Dr. Pinto, whose research interests include microbial ecology and physiology, drinking water treatment and distribution, wastewater treatment and more, is revolutionizing the way water is treated for nitrogen.
Sep 01, 2017
New Faculty Spotlight: Samuel Munoz
Samuel Munoz joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in September 2017 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Marine and Environmental Sciences.
Aug 15, 2017
Furth Received ITE's Innovation in Education Award
CEE Professor Peter Furth received an Innovation in Education Award by the ITE's Transportation Education Council.
Jul 24, 2017
Gu Selected as WEF Fellow
CEE Professor April Gu has been selected as a Water Environment Federation Fellow, for her professional achievement, stature and contributions to the preservation and enhancement of the global water environment.