Civil & Environmental Engineering

Civil and Environmental engineering

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New CEE Faculty

Please welcome our new faculty to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

 

News & Events

Precipitation modeling for critical infrastructures risks

Prof. Auroop Ganguly has been awarded a $55,000 grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for probabilistic modeling of precipitation for risk assessments of critical nuclear infrastructure. More....

CEE Sophomore Student Wins Paper Competition

Nelya Meystelman, a sophomore in the CEE department won the New England Water Environmental Federation undergraduate student paper competition at MIT on April 22. More...

CEE Senior Wins AWWA Prize

Keith Nelson, CEE Senior on co-op at Kleinfelder/SEA, presented at the 2012 Spring Conference and Exhibition of the New England Water Works Association. More...

Prof. Hellweger wins the 2012 New England EPA Environmental Merit Award

Prof. Ferdi Hellweger won the Environmental Merit Award from the New England Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in recognition of his exceptional work and commitment to the environment. More...

Prof. Ganguly Discusses Global Weirding

Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly explained “global weirding” and its distinction from global warming, along with its effects on climate extremes and resulting impact on water sustainability, critical infrastructure, and human health. His recent work on developing a new tool to assess stress on global freshwater supplies was also recently highlighted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. More...

Prof. Sasani Elected Chair of BSCES Structures Group

Prof. Sasani has been elected as the Chair of the Structural Technical Group of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Prof. Sasani, a leader in the study of progressive collapse of structures, has been a long time member of the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute and the BSCES Structural Technical Group. Congratulations to Mehrdad! More...

Vladimir Novotny Selected as 2012 Kappe by AAEE

Professor Emeritus Vladimir Novotny has been selected as the 2012 Kappe Lecturer by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. This distinguished honor is awarded in memory of Stanley E. Kappe, a long-time practitioner in water and wastewater systems. Congratulations to Vladimir! More...