Colorado State University (CSU) is thrilled to announce two new initiatives headed by Drs. Christopher Bareither and Joseph Scalia to promote mine tailings research, education, professional development, and outreach. The Tailings Center of Excellence (Taiilings Center) is a university-based center that includes CSU, Colorado School of Mines, and University of Arizona. This group will include […]

Professor Robert Ettema served on an independent panel that investigated the failure of the Spencer Dam which occured on March 14, 2020, to determine why it happened and how to prevent it from happening again. The Spencer Dam sits on the Niobrara River in northern Nebraska and failed during a major flood and ice run. […]

Colorado State University Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty have garnered many accolades over the past year. Their work has received numerous professional awards, and several have been appointed to leadership roles on governing boards or with prestigious journals. Here are a few of their outstanding achievements. Assistant Professor Aditi Bhaskar has been elected to the […]

Drs. John van de Lindt and Bruce Ellingwood, co-directors of the Department’s Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning along with Associate Directors, Paolo Gardoni of the University of Illinois-Urbana and Dan Cox of Oregon State University, have announced the renewal of a $20 million partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology […]

PFAS – Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – are human-made fluorine compounds that have given us nonstick coatings, polishes, waxes, cleaning products and firefighting foams used at airports and military bases. They are in consumer goods like carpets, wall paint, popcorn bags and water-repellant shoes, and they are essential in the aerospace, automotive, telecommunications, data storage, […]

A team led by Ellison Carter and John Volckens in the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering has received a four-year, $2.2 million grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, part of the Centers for Disease Control, to develop radical new technologies and methods for assessing worker exposure to occupational air pollutants. […]

Drs. Christopher Thornton and Robert Ettema along with M.S. student Taylor Hogan in partnership with Stantec/AECOM have designed and built a test model spillway for the Gross Reservoir in southwest Boulder County for Denver Water.  The reservoir provides water to more than 1.4 million residents along the Front Range.  The planned height of the dam […]

Dr. Sybil Sharvelle was awarded a five-year, $3 million grant from NSF for The Interdisciplinary Training, Education and Research in Food-Energy-Water Systems (InTERFEWS) Program.  This program brings together PhD students from traditionally disparate disciplines to conduct research on key problems in the Food-Energy-Water nexus with a focus on water-scarce, arid regions. The mission of the […]

Charles Shackelford, Department Head, was the first Colorado State University civil engineering professor invited to speak in the Cross Canada Lecture Tour (CCLT). Each year for 53 years, the Canadian Geotechnical Society has invited one prominent Canadian geotechnical professional and one international professional to present.   Within a continuous three-week period in May and June, Shackelford […]

Ryan Bailey received a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), to investigate the origination of buildup-inducing salt.  Ryan is looking at whether the salt could be coming from rainstorms and flash floods happening far upstream from the river basins, lakes, and reservoirs being used to irrigate […]