In July, PhD student Yiqun Yao attended the International Water Association’s 10th Membrane Technology Conference & Exhibition for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in St. Louis, Missouri. Advised by Associate Professor Tiezheng Tong, Yao’s research focuses on developing novel electrodialysis desalination technology for brine treatment and the design of antiscalants for membrane desalination. Yao…Read more
Environmental Engineering student Mayca Saavedra named the fall 2023 Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate!
PhD student Mohammad Teymouri has received a $35,000 fellowship from the Portland Cement Association. Each year, the association grants two U.S. graduate students a fellowship to research topics related to the decarbonization of the cement industry. Teymouri is in his third year of the PhD program in Civil Engineering and Construction Management. The program is…Read more
Assistant Professor Antônio Alves Meira Neto was named a 2022 Outstanding Reviewer by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for his work with the Water Resources Research journal. The AGU, established in 1919 by the National Research Council, is a leading association in earth and space sciences. Meira joined the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department in the…Read more
PhD student selected for Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship Civil engineering PhD student Kimia Yousefi Anarak has been selected for the Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship of $5,000 for her research submission “Trajectory modeling of windborne debris in the turbulent urban wind field.” She plans for this research to serve as the foundation of her…Read more
Two CEE faculty earn global recognition from IAHR Professor Pierre Julien and Associate Professor Peter Nelson will each receive an honorable mention at the 40th World Congress of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) in Vienna next month. Julien was awarded second place for the 2023 M. Selim Yalin Lifetime Achievement Award.…Read more
Associate Professor Ryan Morrison and coauthors Ellen Wohl and Richard Knox of the Department of Geosciences received the news that their paper, “A river ran through it: Floodplains as America’s newest relict landform” was selected by faculty in the Warner College of Natural Resources for this year’s Outstanding Publication award. WCNR Dean Alonso Aguirre called…Read more
A student team from CIVE 103 placed first in the national competition, Engineering for People Design Challenge.