Civil Engineering Ph.D. alum Vijay P. Singh (’74) will receive the 2024 Career Achievement Award from the CSU Alumni Association’s 50 Year Club at their luncheon on Friday, October 25.
John van de Lindt will receive the 2024 Vilas Mujumdar Resilience Award at the ASCE annual convention this fall.
AWARDS Ph.D. student Pejman Fatehi has received a $5,000 Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship for his project “Optimizing shapes of aerodynamic mitigators for solar trackers by leveraging machine learning.” “Winning the Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship is a tremendous honor and a key milestone in my research. This award highlights the significance of my work…Read more
PhD student Leila Naderi won the Probabilistic Methods Committee Student Paper Competition for her paper and presentation titled: “Multi-fidelity Subset Simulation for Rare Event Simulation.” Naderi received this award at the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference in Chicago, Illinois on May 28-31, 2024. Naderi is advised by CEE Associate Professor Gaofeng Jia. Congratulations Leila!
Outstanding CEE graduates recognized at reception The CEE Department hosted a Graduation Reception for our graduating seniors and their families this week, including the recognition of seven students for their academic and leadership success: Outstanding Civil Engineer of the Future Award – Celie Brockett Civil Engineering Achievement Award – Emma Boyle Civil Engineering Student Leadership…Read more
Omur-Ozbek receives George T. Abell Award for Teaching and Mentoring Associate Teaching Professor Pinar Omur-Ozbek was recognized at the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering 2024 Faculty & Staff Awards ceremony this week. Omur-Ozbek received the George T. Abell Award for Teaching and Mentoring “in recognition of her outstanding record of innovative teaching methods and…Read more
Department recognizes faculty and staff at end of year celebration Department Head Chuck Shackelford presented annual faculty and staff awards at the spring 2024 end-of-year celebration: Outstanding Graduate Student Award – Harshit Mishra, PhD studentOutstanding Academic Partner – Johannes Beeby, Stillwater AssociatesOutstanding Research Scientist/Instructor/Staff Service – Jana Crouch, CEE Communications ManagerStaff Award for Excellence –…Read more
Julianne Robinson received Honorable Mention in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition for her proposed research on towed time-domain electromagnetic surveys of groundwater.
PhD graduate recognized as Outstanding Reviewer for ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering The ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering has named recent PhD graduate Edson Costa-Filho an Outstanding Reviewer for 2023. Costa-Filho successfully defended his dissertation this spring to earn his PhD in Civil Engineering under the advisement of Professor José Chávez.…Read more
Emeritus Professor Thomas Sale will receive the 2024 Innovator of the Year Award at CSU Demo Day on Wednesday, April 17 in the LSC Ballroom.