James E. (Jim) Rowings (BSCE 1975, MSCE 1979, Ph.D. 1982) has been honored by the Purdue Engineering Alumni Association with the 2024 Loyalty Award.

Mirian Velay-Lizancos, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, has been named the Bowen Scholar of Excellence and also the Associate Director of the Pankow Materials Laboratory in the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering.

Dr. Akanshu Sharma has been named the Jack and Kay Hockema Associate Professor in Civil Engineering. This professorship has a 5-year term that will extend through Fall 2029.

Satish V. Ukkusuri, Reilly Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Urban Mobility Networks and Intelligence (UMNI) Lab at Purdue, has been selected to be part of the summer 2024 class of INFORMS Senior Members.

Imagine simply telling your vehicle, “I’m in a hurry” and it automatically takes you on the most efficient route to where you need to be. A Purdue University research team, led by Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering Prof. Ziran Wang, has found that an autonomous vehicle can do this using ChatGPT.

Luna Lu, Associate Dean of Faculty of College of Engineering and Reilly Professor of Civil Engineering, is a member of the study committee formed by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to identify key demands and challenges facing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) related to navigation and flood risk management assets.

Jie Shan, Professor of Civil Engineering, has been appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE journal Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS).

Autonomous Motorsports Purdue (AMP), advised by Lyles CCE professor, Samuel Labi, exhibited the club’s autonomous go-kart at the Innovation Paddock, in conjunction with the Autonomous Karting Series (AKS) organization.

CCE senior Ben O'Brien hopes to influence the adoption rate of electric transportation by pairing technical knowledge gained as a Boilermaker civil engineering student and policy analysis conducted while simultaneously majoring in political science. He is just one of the 16,000 current College of Engineering students who will advance society in the years ahead — as Purdue engineers have done for the past 150 years.

Civil Engineering and Herrick Labs PhD student Sichen Lu is a recipient of the prestigious ASHRAE Grant-in-Aid Award for 2024-2025. This $10,000 award is given to outstanding graduate students performing research in the High Performance Buildings or HVAC&R fields.

Civil Engineering and Herrick Labs PhD student Sichen Lu has received the Fontaine Memorial Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Civil Engineering and Herrick Labs PhD student Sichen Lu won the Best Paper Award at the 8th International High Performance Buildings Conference, organized at Purdue in July 2024.

Construction Engineering Ph.D. student Oluwaseun Samuel Olabode has received the second runner-up Best Paper Award at the 2024 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3ce2024), held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.

Construction Engineering Ph.D. student Hyewon Hailey Seo has been honored with the Outstanding Student Award by the Construction Industry Institute (CII). This award recognizes her exceptional academic achievements, dedication, and commitment to excellence.

Researchers from Purdue's Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) and across the globe are employing data analytics, connected technologies and other innovations to help make intersections safer and more efficient.

Congratulations to Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering undergrad and Purdue University track & field athlete Joel Gomez on breaking the Americas record at the Paralympic Games this week in Paris!

In this recent article published in Nature magazine, Reilly Professor of Civil Engineering Satish Ukkusuri and his research collaborators outline best practices for implementing a comprehensive, strategic approach to combat the adverse effects of climate change on transport systems.

Humans have always aspired to live among the stars — and Purdue University researchers are now working to make it happen. The Resilient Extra-Terrestrial Habitat institute (RETHi), a NASA-funded Space Technology Research Institute, explores how to make future space habitats resilient to disruptions and able to deal with complex situations autonomously.

Dr. Venkatesh Merwade, Professor of Civil Engineering, has been selected by the Indiana Association for Floodplain and Stormwater Management (INAFSM) to receive the 2024 Education and Outreach Award.

Dr. Nusrat Jung, Assistant Professor in the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering has been appointed to the Early Career Editorial Board of Indoor Environments, published by Elsevier.