Students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering share a bit about their lives and what their Latinx heritage means to them. Latinx Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15 to October 15.
Alexandria Rodgers was named a 2025 Tillman Scholar by the Pat Tillman Foundation for her work in sociohydrology as a civil engineering Ph.D. student at CSU. She is the third CSU student to ever receive this designation.
New environmental engineering faculty member, Yanghua Duan, joins department to contribute his work on sustainable water systems.
Sharvelle is recognized in the list of 2024-25 CSU innovators for her team’s patent on advanced anaerobic digestion to carboxylic acids.
Pinar Omur-Ozbek has been named a 2025 Engineering Unleashed Fellow for embracing an entrepreneurial mindset and using maker activities in undergraduate environmental engineering courses.
Professor Ryan Bailey shares his research on water contamination due to selenium transportation via groundwater with CSU’s SOURCE.
Rachel Brennan is the new department head for civil and environmental engineering at CSU, bringing her extensive experience as a researcher and professor for over 20 years at Penn State.
Professor Ryan Bailey’s work around the White River in Meeker, CO revealed the practice of flooding agricultural fields for irrigation has raised the water table and recharged the river for over 100 years.
Four CSU civil and environmental engineering undergraduate students competed in the Engineers Without Borders UK 2025 contest “Engineering for People Design Challenge” and received the top award for their design, recycling plastic waste into concrete sidewalks in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Assistant Professor Danny White will travel to Chile for a collaboration with Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción to study how non-native vegetation impacts river systems.