PCoE recently underwent the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology’s 18-month accreditation process. With the site visit taking place in Fall of 2021, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering received official word in September 2022 that its Bachelor’s degree  in Construction Engineering earned accreditation status, making it the first Construction program in Utah with […]

Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student Yirong Zhou was recently awarded a scholarship from the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Winners of the $500 scholarships are selected based on outstanding scholarship, work experience, and activity within their student section of ITE. Zhou’s research focuses on data-driven transportation engineering, including operation research, optimization, machine learning, and spatio-temporal […]

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering team developed and demonstrated system that provides damage detection and diagnoses Two CvEEN Ph.D. students and Assistant Professor Peter Zhu conducted a field demonstration on the UTA TRAX blue and green lines with Utah Transit Authority and Federal Transit Administration representatives in attendance. The infrastructure Sensing and Experimental Mechanics […]

Three Department of Civil and Environmental Engineer researchers recently received the ASCE Construction Institute’s 2023 Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for the paper “Automated Framework to Translate Rebar Spatial Information from GPR into BIM,” which was originally published in Journal of Construction Engineering and Management in October 2021. A formal award ceremony will be held later […]

The Computer Aided Design and Engineering Lab (CADE) in the Warnock Engineering Building, a bank of high-end Linux computers for engineering students, has undergone a big hardware and software upgrade and is open for business. The lab in room L224 in the lower level of Warnock has 75 newly upgraded Red Hat Enterprise Linux machines […]

Congratulations to Dr. Xianfeng (Terry) Yang for his National Science Foundation Early Career Grant award for his proposal on machine learning in transportation.  You can learn more about Dr. Yang’s award here.  Abstract from NSF Site:  This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant will support fundamental research in modeling stochastic traffic flows for smart mobility […]

There has been much evidence suggesting that police demonstrate a level of bias when dealing with people of color, and that has led to some distrust between communities and law enforcement. A 2020 study from New York University, for example, shows that black drivers were about 20 percent more likely to be stopped than white […]

Abbas Rashidi has been recognized as a 2017 Outstanding Reviewer by the editors-in-chief of two ASCE journals: ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering and ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. The decisions have been made based upon his excellent response, turn-around time and completeness of review for technical publications throughout 2017. Rashidi is […]

Outstanding Teacher — Steven Burian

2016 Transportation Camp