National Science Foundation grant awarded to CvEEN professor’s latest project Dr. Ramesh Goel received a National Science Foundation grant for more than $500,000 in June for his work toward energy efficient waste water treatment. The project is titled GOALI: Understanding Granulation Using Microbial Resource Management for The Broader Application of Granular Technology. The project investigates […]

Dr. Abbas Rashidi recently received the 2023 Jim Dent Leadership Award from Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), Rocky Mountain Region. This award is bestowed annually by DBIA to recognize an individual who has demonstrated leadership in the advancement of best Design-Build practices and of Design-Build as the project delivery method of choice. Dr. Rashidi was […]

Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Dr. Cathy Liu (co-PI), partnering with Dr. Jeff Phillips (PI), at Kahlert School of Computing, was awarded a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation on June 14, 2023, for their project titled Integrating and Learning on Spatial Data via Multi-Agent Simulation. The project builds metro-scale foundation models for studying human […]

Already active in the Engineering Scholars Program and ASCE, first-year student Melissa Jackson’s engineering studies are off to a promising start. Melissa Jackson just completed her first year at the U, where she was an active student and community member of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Jackson was involved in the department’s chapter […]

As an undeclared sophomore at the U, Dani Zebelean had no idea that entering a student design competition would put her on a path to a fulfilling career doing extremely important and vital work for the state of Utah. Now an Environmental Engineer for the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Zebelean works in the Division […]

Emily Williamson, recent CvEEN Ph.D. graduate, has been selected to receive the 2023 Wood Engineering Achievement Award for Young Engineer. A presentation of her award will be held at this year’s Forest Products Society‘s International Conference from June 6-8 in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Wood Engineering Achievement Award recognizes accomplishments and innovations in the discipline […]

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 […]