News
Apr 28, 2016
Congratulations to all 2016 Award and Scholarship Winners in CEE!
Congratulations to the Civil and Environmental Engineering students who received scholarships and awards at the 2016 CEE Brick Ceremony and several other ceremonies held by the university and by industry organizations throughout the region. These scholarships and awards reflect the leadership, academic excellence, and outstanding achievements of the students in the department. The awards were made […]
Apr 28, 2016
VOTERS Awarded Patent
CEE Professor Ming Wang & ECE Professor Nian Sun were awarded a patent for “Real-time wireless dynamic tire pressure sensor and energy harvesting system”. Abstract Source: USPTO An instantaneous/real-time wireless dynamic tire pressure sensor (DTPS) for characterizing pavement qualities and for detecting surface and subsurface pavement defects under normal driving conditions. Signal processing provides quantitative […]
Apr 27, 2016
Ganguly Featured in ERL Highlights of 2015
CEE Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly's article on Changes in observed climate extremes in global urban areas was selected by Environmental Research Letters(ERL) as a feature in their Highlights of 2015 collection.
Apr 21, 2016
COE Alumni Take on Infrastructure in National Competition
CEE Alumni Kevin Rathbun (E'14) and Brian Reynolds (E'14) have submitted their entry for the Infrastructure Vision 2050 Challenge which is challenging submitters to identify the most critical problem with US infrastructure and create a solution to fix it.
Apr 15, 2016
Making Your Water Safer to Drink
CEE Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto is researching how to make your water safer to drink by focusing on the role of microbial organisms in drinking water and how they continue to survive today’s exhaustive water treatment processes.
Apr 11, 2016
Pinto Featured in Emerging Investigator Series
CEE Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto was interviewed for the Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology blog that highlights his recent article on "Emerging investigators series: microbial communities in full-scale drinking water distribution systems – a meta-analysis"
Apr 05, 2016
Hajjar Awarded $180K NSF Grant
CEE Professor & Chair Jerome Hajjar was awarded $180K NSF Grant for "Transforming Building Structural Resilience through Innovation in Steel Diaphragms".
Apr 04, 2016
Setting Urban Traffic Restrictions
CEE professor Peter Furth and associate teaching professor Daniel Dulaski were featured in a Boston.com article about "The 'absurd' reason Boston can't lower speed limits on its own".