For the first time in its 24-year history, the prestigious ExCEEd Teaching Workshop from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) was held on the CSU campus in Fort Collins.
A CSU civil engineer has received a U.S. Department of Energy grant to help solar trackers – the structures that enable solar panels to follow the path of the sun – withstand high winds and wind-related natural disasters.
NSF has awarded CSU Assistant Professor Ryan G. Smith a $328,981 grant to study how subsidence, or the sinking of land area from the removal of groundwater, affects long-term water availability in southwest Utah.
Professor Hussam Mahmoud has been awarded a three-year, $2.7 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for expanding his model predicting wildfire progress through a community.
The 2023 edition of Colorado State University RESEARCH magazine features the work of Hussam Mahmoud and his research group, in the article “Confronting the Climate Crisis: CSU meets a global challenge head-on with research, engagement, and students.” The new issue, which focuses on the theme of resilience, is out now in digital format, and will…Read more
Along active faults like the San Andreas Fault in California, monitoring stations detect where subtle lateral movements happen – or don’t. If most of the fault keeps shifting, but one area remains still, it can be a sign that pressure is building there. That growing pressure will eventually be released in an earthquake, and scientists…Read more