Tag: Announcements

Chávez gives keynote address at Irrigation International Symposium in Uruguay

Four people stand in corn field.

Chávez gives keynote address at Irrigation International Symposium in Uruguay Earlier this month, Professor José L. Chávez delivered a keynote address at an International Irrigation Management Symposium in Colonia, Uruguay. The symposium was a gathering of experts in irrigation and agriculture sharing innovations for improving irrigation water management in Latin America and the Caribbean. Chávez spoke…Read more

Graduate student participates in shake-table testing in San Diego

John van de Lindt and graduate student stand in front of shake table simulator in California.

Graduate student participates in shake-table testing in San Diego This January, CEE graduate research assistant Prashanna Mishra and Professor John van de Lindt participated in the second phase of the NSF-funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Converging Design project. This phase tested the structural integrity of a full-scale six-story timber building using a shake-table…Read more

CEE alum elected President of the Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society

Portrait of Geoff Chao, alum

CSU alum Geoff Chao has been named President of the Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society (SEAGS). The society promotes collaboration between geotechnical associations across Southeast Asia. In the announcement of his election to the position, Chao was praised by the society for an “outstanding dedication, extensive expertise, and unwavering commitment to SEAGS.” Chao earned his M.S.…Read more

Venayagamoorthy serves as editor for special issue in Environmental Fluid Mechanics Journal

Karan Venayagamoorthy

The Environmental Fluid Mechanics Journal has published a special issue on turbulence and mixing in stratified flows. Professor Karan Venayagamoorthy served as editor for the issue which includes twelve papers, half of which focus on stratified turbulence and mixing research performed in labs and simulations, with the second half focused on field-scale observations and simulations in natural…Read more

Smith and Hasan develop model for monitoring subsidence and groundwater storage loss

Fahim Hasan standing in green field with sunset behind him

Groundwater is a critical yet finite resource. When groundwater is excessively pumped for its many uses (drinking, irrigation, etc.), the surrounding land area can sink, known as land subsidence, causing permanent groundwater storage loss. Prof. Ryan G. Smith and colleagues have developed a new model to map subsidence globally for the first time. They published…Read more

Steep flume used to test removable grout seams

Water running down incline

Steep flume used to test removable grout seams On Friday, July 14, the CEE Hydraulics Laboratory used an outdoor steep flume at the Engineering Research Center to test grout seams used in the installation of articulating concrete blocks (ACBs) revetment systems. This hydraulic testing is being performed for a global consulting company to provide design…Read more

Tong research on innovative desalination process featured on cover of Nature Water

Tiezheng Tong, Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and PhD student Xuewei, research water filtration in the Scott Bioengineering Building, Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering, Colorado State University, August 1, 2018

The cover of the June 2023 edition of Nature Water features research by Associate Professor Tiezheng Tong and PhD student Yiqun Yao entitled “Electrodialytic crystallization to enable zero liquid discharge.” Wastewater with high salinity has typically required the use of evaporation or freezing to crystalize the salt thereby removing it from the water, but the process…Read more