News
Nov 02, 2017
CEE Student Wins RC3 Scholarship
CEE BS/MS student Samantha Wagner, E'18, won a $1,000 Reinforced Concrete Construction Committee (RC3) Ken Fone-Jack Weber Scholarship, which will be presented at their annual meeting on November 9, 2017. […]
Oct 16, 2017
CEE Alums Place 3rd in WEF Student Design Competition
Recent CEE alums Catherine Moskos, Erika Towne and Lindsey Carver competed at the National Water Environment Federation student design competition in Chicago this past October during the the Water Environment Federation’s Technical Exhibition and Conference, which is the largest annual water quality event in the world.
Oct 03, 2017
Professor Loretta Fernandez Receives Grant From The EPA
The pilot study by CEE/COS Assistant Professor Loretta Fernandez entitled “Laboratory and field pilot study on using polyethylene passive samplers to monitor potential PCB transport across the engineered cap at the Grasse River Superfund site” has received a $405K grant in collaboration with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center.from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Sep 29, 2017
Rebuilding in the Modern World
CSSH/CEE Professor Matthias Ruth and MIE Professor Ozlem Ergun suggest how Puerto Rico can rebuild their electricity infrastructure to better handle future hurricane and storm seasons.
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)”.