PhD alum Edson Costa-Filho and Professor José Chávez published a new study on remote sensing for agricultural irrigation in MDPI’s Sustainability journal.
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!
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
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
Civil Engineering PhD alum Oluwatobi “Tobi” Oke, the first student in the indoor air quality and exposure science research group, is among the graduates honored with an engraved floor tile at the Powerhouse Energy Campus.
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
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
The partnership between the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Asian Institute of Technology has produced the first three graduates of the program.
CSU civil engineering graduate students are conducting a U.S. Army study on soil moisture that helps predict how heavy vehicles safely traverse unfamiliar terrain. The study could have wide-ranging applications for ranchers, park rangers and many others.