CSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Bruce Ellingwood ranked as the sixth most-cited civil engineering author in a Stanford University worldwide citation survey, published in PLoS. Scopus citation data for 6 million scientists in 22 major fields and 176 sub-fields were analyzed. 100,000 scientists were sorted and ranked by a composite point index, excluding self-citations. […]

The College of Engineering at New Mexico State University has invited Hussam Mahmoud to speak on his research on vulnerability of communities to extreme events.   ASEE First Bell also recognized Hussam Mahmoud’s research on the development of novel computational models aimed at modeling the response of communities to multi-hazard disasters, including understanding the societal […]

Jorge Ramirez received the Colorado State University Oliver P. Pennock Distinguished Service Award from Provost Dan Bush at the Spring 2019 Celebrate! Colorado State Awards.  This award recognizes meritorious and outstanding achievement over a five-year period by full-time members of the academic faculty; established as a tribute to Professor Pennock, who served as a distinguished […]

Dr. Ryan Morrison and Dr. Peter Nelson have been awarded an NSF award for $309,553 to improve river restoration design by researching the interactions between floodplain vegetation and river flows. The research will include a combination of physical modeling (performed at the Engineering Research Center), numerical modeling, and field work in coordination with the City […]

ASCE awarded John Labadie the 2019 Best Seminal Paper Award for his paper entitled “Optimal Operation of the Multireservoir Systems:  State-of-the-art Review” that was published in 2004 in the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.  This paper has been cited extensively and has been downloaded over 2814 times from the ASCE web site.

ASCE awarded Robert Ettema the 2019 Harold R. Peyton Award for Cold Regions Engineering for “a distinguished career of laboratory research, physical modeling, experimentation, teaching, administration, mentoring graduate students and extensive publication in fields of ice mechanics, cold regions hydraulics, river engineering, sediment transport, hydraulic structures and engineering history.”  The award will be given during […]

Jorge Ramirez was selected by the Environmental and Water Resources Institute to receive the 2019 Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award for “exceptional, wide-ranging research on aird lands hydrology and hydraulics, including analyzing the vulnerability of the U.S. water supply system to climate change, and observationally demonstrating the complementary relationship of evapotranspiration, and for outstanding teaching […]

Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health selected Ellison Carter as a JPB Environmental Health Fellow.  This selection is the outcome of a very extensive and competitive review process, and bring significant recognition not only to Ellison but also our Department, the WSCOE, and CSU.  This Fellowship became active October 1, 2018.  Read More

John van de Lindt was  informed in November of his election to Fellow status with ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute.  The recognition took place in Orlando, Florida in April at the Structures Congress.   To be eligible for this nomination, a person must: Be actively involved in a local or national SEI committee or chapter. Be a […]

On Thursday, November 8, 2018, Dr. Ryan Bailey was awarded the WSCOE George T. Abell Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award. This award is given to a full time tenured or tenure track faculty serving at the Assistant Professor level and completed at lest two (2) years of service. The award recognizes excellence and accomplishments in […]