Edson Costa Filho Receives 2nd Place in ASA’s Graduate Student Oral Presentation Ph.D. Candidate, Edson Costa Filho was awarded 2nd place for his oral presentation and research project at the recent 2021 American Society of Agronomy (ASA) International annual meeting in Salt Lake City, UT.   Edson presented in the ASA Remote Sensing Division at the…Read more

Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) Awards Joseph Scalia IV the Pretigious “Steward of the Environment” Award The Robert and Mitchell Landreth “Steward of the Environment” award was established in 2021 and is given in recognition of “distinguished engineering achievement related to the environment” by a young faculty member, graduate student, or post doctorate working with Geosynthetics.  Only…Read more

Ryan Morrison co-authored the paper “The changing face of floodplains in the Mississippi River Basin detected by a 60-year land use change dataset” which was published in Nature Scientific Data this month. The study was a large collaborative effort between researchers at the EPA, Texas A&M, CSU, University of Tennessee, and the University for Foreigners…Read more

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Lisa Wang who received an $8000 2021-22  ASCE O.H. Ammann Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering to assist with her.  Said research consists of a systematic community-level analysis of linked physical, social and economic systems to de-aggregate performance targets of buildings to enable the community to achieve pre-defined socio-economic community-wide resilience goals.

El Dorado County (CBS13) interviewed Hussam Mahmoud regarding what possible damages could the smoke and ash from the Caldor Fire do to existing homes. Residents had received a letter from an attorney in Glendale warning of hidden damage that can’t be seen.  Interviewer, Anna Giles, reached out to Mahmoud for an expert opinion.  View interview…Read more

Christopher Bareither received the ASCE 2020 Associate Editor Award for the 2020 Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.  The Associate Editor award recognizes an Associate Editor who has provided consistent and exemplary service to a particular journal or practice periodical, or a substantial unique contribution to the enhancement of ASCE’s publication activities.

On July 10, 2021, Hussam Mahmoud was notified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine that he was selected for the 2021-23 New Voices Cohort. This was a very competitive process and 22 New Voices members out of nearly 300 applications were selected. According to NAESM, “New Voices in Sciences, Engineering and Medicine…Read more

Congratulations to Brandon Perry for receiving a 2021-22 $5000.00 Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship.  The funding is awarded for specific projects that fulfill the goal of innovation in the structural engineering and applied mechanics practice.  Brandon is involved in a research project with Dr. Yanlin Guo where they are trying to extract useful information for…Read more

The Construction Engineering and Management degree in Civil Engineering is a collaborative effort between the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction Management.  Besiktepe enrolled in this Ph.D. program in 2016.  She is originally from Istanbul, Turkey and graduated from architecture school in 2003.  While in architecture school, her in internships took place at…Read more