News
Nov 25, 2013
Sharrows on Steroids
Boston installs "sharrows on steroids," a new way of marking lanes shared by bikes and cars, invented by Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Peter Furth. Dr. Furth received a Ph.D. degree in Transportation Systems from MIT in 1981 and his expertise areas include traffic signal control and priority, transit operations modeling and transit data collection.
Nov 21, 2013
Robotic inspectors on disaster duty
In March 2011, the Tohoku earthquake in Japan initiated a tsunami that wreaked havoc across the coast of the island nation. The most infamous damage occurred when the Fukushima Daichii nuclear power plant suffered serious equipment failures, which led to the second largest nuclear disaster in history. In the aftermath, inspection and repair crews faced severe […]
Nov 20, 2013
A sustainable breeding ground for collaboration
A complex structure the size of a shoebox perched on a table’s edge in Curry Student Center Ballroom on Monday evening. The 3-D printed construction resembled a series of tiny, hauntingly bare trees with inimical spikes for branches. Architecture professor Jane Amidon explained that students in the Design for Sustainable Urban Environments program created the model and others […]
Nov 06, 2013
Hey, bacteria are individuals too
Each person carries 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells, the former of which have continued to evolve in response to medicine’s most potent antibiotics. But microscopic bugs don’t just dictate human health—they’re also integral to the health of every body of water on the planet. According to Ferdi Hellweger, an associate professor of civil […]
Oct 29, 2013
CEE 2013 Graduate Steven Earl wins AISC National Scholarship
Congratulations to CEE 2013 graduate Steven Earl who was selected to receive a $5,000 Education Foundation Scholarship from American Institute of Steel Construction. This scholarship is awarded to students with outstanding achievement in the fields of Civil, Architectural, and Construction Engineering. Steven Earl plans to use the scholarship to support his graduate studies at Stanford […]
Oct 22, 2013
NU Civil Engineering Students Participate in the 18th Annual CANstruction Competition
The NU Chapter of Chi Epsilon created a “Defeating Despicable Hunger” display made of over 3000 non-perishable food cans at the 2013 CANstruction competition.
Oct 01, 2013
David Bedoya (Ph.D., 2009) wins 2013 BSCES Clemens Herschel Award
Congratulations to Northeastern University alumnus and Civil and Environmental Engineering part-time faculty member David Bedoya, who won the 2013 Clemens Herschel Award from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The award recognizes an individual for publishing papers that are useful, commendable, and worthy of acknowledgement. Dr. Bedoya […]
Sep 23, 2013
Dutch Bicycle Safety
Civil Engineering Professor Peter Furth was featured in the Boston Globe for wanting to bring the bicycle infrastructure used in the Netherlands to the United States. Dr. Furth received a Ph.D. degree in Transportation Systems from MIT in 1981 and his expertise areas include traffic signal control and priority, transit operations modeling and transit data collection.