On Thursday, 16 civil and environmental engineering graduate students presented their research at the 2024 Graduate Student Showcase. We commend all participants for excellent work!

Special congratulations to Mike Talbot for earning the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award and to Mohamed Abdelhafez and Winnifred Agha for receiving Great Minds in Research Honorable Mention.

Mohamed Abdelhafez (Ph.D. student) – Saltwater Intrusion and Sea Level Rise Impact on Coastal Buildings
Winnifred Agha (M.S. student) – Ethics and Equity in Engineering Practice: Early Career Engineers’ Perspectives
Khem Bhattarai (Ph.D. student) – Interaction of Gravity Currents
Rahul Chaudhari (Ph.D. student) – Impact of Augmented Reality HMDs on Hazard Awareness in Construction
Victoria de Souza Wojahn (Ph.D. student) – Capturing Seasonal Dynamics of Tree Water Storage Using ERT
Mahmoud Elnahla (Ph.D. student) – Statistical Analysis of Thunderstorm-Induced Extreme Wind Duration in the U.S.
Pejman Fatehi (Ph.D. student) – Optimizing Aerodynamic Mitigation for Wind Resistance in Solar Trackers
Jui Hsiang Lo (Ph.D. student) – The Removal of Methane from the Soil – Soil Venting
Prashanna Mishra (M.S. student) – Resilient Seismic Design and Testing of Tall Mass Timber Buildings
Ficky Muabuay (Ph.D. student) – VFA Production via Upflow Leach Bed Reactor (ULBR)
Susmita Pant (M.S. student) – Estimating Fifty-Two Years of Groundwater Levels in San Joaquin Valley
Julianne Robinson (M.S. student) – Tracking Hidden Waters: Time-Lapse Electromagnetics for Groundwater Recharge
Mike Talbot (Ph.D. student) – Watershed Alchemy: Transforming Data Into Hydrologic Understanding
Subash Thapaliya (Ph.D. student) – Capacity Optimization of Storage Hydropower Under Various Power Purchase Policies
Ziluo Xiong (Ph.D. student) – Harnessing Machine Learning to Predict Hurricane Damage for Building Resilience
Kimia Yousefi Anarak (Ph.D. student) – Novel Stereo Vision for Tracking Windborne Debris Flight