
Civil engineering students constructed a 1:24 scale of the Halligan Dam to test flood conditions and inform the City of Fort Collins’ final dam design as part of a $308M water supply project.

Civil engineering students constructed a 1:24 scale of the Halligan Dam to test flood conditions and inform the City of Fort Collins’ final dam design as part of a $308M water supply project.

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Professor José Chávez was recognized by the ICID Journal – Irrigation and Drainage for his paper: “Assessing multi-sensor hourly maize evapotranspiration estimation using a one-source surface energy balance approach.”

Former CEE Professor Rob Ettema received the 2025 Bernard Michel Award at the 23rd Workshop on the Hydraulics of Ice Covered Rivers in June.

Michael Talbot has received the 2024-25 Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers Ben Urbonas Scholarship.

Adwoa Amankwaa and Fahim Hasan have each been awarded $10,000 grants from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) through the Colorado Water Center (CWC).
Graduate student Prashanna Mishra discusses his research on building resilience in earthquake conditions in the “Did You Know” video series.

Danny White joins the CEE department as faculty, picking up where he left off as a Ph.D. student, performing hydraulic experiments in the Engineering Research Center.

Ph.D. student Awetehagn Gebremariam has received a 2025-26 Foundation Fellowship from the American Concrete Institute.