Fatehi wins $5K Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship

Pejman Fatehi standing on sidewalk in the Oval.

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

Graduate Writing Seminar: Tuesday, August 27

Civil & Environmental Engineering Graduate Writing Seminar

Graduate Writing Seminar: Writing for Journal Editors with Peter Gorsuch Clear and effective writing can make or break a paper, but what aspects of the writing really matter to a journal editor when they decide whether to publish the paper? Leaning on his experience of selecting papers for the scientific journal Nature, Peter Gorsuch of Fort…Read more

PhD student wins paper competition at ASCE conference

Leila Naderia and others posing with award.

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!

PhD students successfully reenergize Water Engineering and Science seminar

Student presenting research in a classroom.

This spring, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering hosted a Water Engineering and Science seminar, bringing together engineering students, faculty, and industry experts to network and share knowledge. Graduate students had the opportunity to enroll to receive credit for attending the seminar, and attendees from across campus, the community, and even overseas participated in…Read more