The water group (led by Dr. Steve Burian) and transportation group (led by Drs. Cathy Liu, Terry Yang, and Juan Medina) hosted a smart infrastructure session on Nov 18th, 2017. More than 30 high school students attended the event and were introduced with recent advances and technologies in the smart infrastructure areas and the role […]

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CANYON, TX – Two students at the University of Utah have won awards in the 2017 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Technology R&D. Adam Olsen, a Ph.D. student in Environmental Engineering, has been awarded a Second Place prize in the Open Competition in the […]

Nuclear Engineering PhD student, Ian Schwerdt, won a top poster award at the Interagency Technical Nuclear Forensics Program Review. Ian was one of over 30 posters invited to present at this review. He was presenting his research on developing tools for studying morphological features of UO3 as a forensic signatures.

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Utah hosted the fourth annual National Transportation Summer Institute Camp on July 10 – July 14, 2017. The department hosted 16, incoming, 9th grade students. The camp targeted students who are interested in exploring engineering, specifically transportation engineering, as a career. As part of the […]

Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Western District awarded Dr. Cathy Liu the Outstanding Educator Award at its 2017 Annual Meeting in San Diego on June 20th, 2017. The ITE Western District Outstanding Educator Award recognizes one educator every year who has shown extraordinary creativity in teaching, taken exceptional measures to spark student interest in the […]

Companies nationwide want skilled engineering graduates, while student interest in the profession has grown. These factors are fueling booms at engineering schools,but institutions need help keeping up with demand. Some public universities are turning to state legislatures for help, even in an era of budget tightening. The pitch: producing more engineers is good economics. In […]

July 10-14, 2017 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. daily Audience: 2017-2018 9th grade boys and girls Explore engineering in this week-long event dedicated to introducing 9th grade high school students to the transportation industry. 20 selected participants will experience hands on activities while working with the professional researchers and faculty of the University of Utah. Participants will […]

A team from the CvEEN Department organized the Towers Event during the 2017 Science Olympiad on Saturday April 15th. The competition attracted more than 30 two-student teams from Utah High Schools and Junior High Schools. The towers were tested under gravity load by pouring sand into a bucket hanging from the top of the tower. […]

Early April, the University of Utah Student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers proudly hosted the annual Rocky Mountain Regional Student Conference. Faculty advisor, Dr. Christine Pomeroy and student conference chair, Jenny Calderon, organized a planning team of six exceptional University of Utah students to help plan every aspect of the event, including […]