CCE News & Spotlights

February 25, 2025

Alberto Castillo receives ACI Research in Progress award

Grad student Alberto Castillo was the second-place winner in the Research in Progress session conducted by the American Concrete Institute showcasing research projects and leading-edge concrete technology throughout the world.
February 20, 2025

How mosquitos hear may inspire new ways to detect natural disasters

A multidisciplinary Purdue University research team is recreating mosquito antennae to better study their sensitivity to vibrations. Should the research prove fruitful, it could lead to improvements in monitoring and detecting natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
February 20, 2025

'This Is Purdue': Purdue professors Brandon Boor and Nusrat Jung on their groundbreaking indoor air quality research

What's in the air we breathe indoors? That's what Brandon Boor, the Dr. Margery E. Hoffman Associate Professor in Civil Engineering, and Nusrat Jung, assistant professor of civil engineering, are researching in our buildings - at home, school, work and beyond. In the latest episode of 'This Is Purdue,' Boor and Jung share their journey from Finland to Purdue's Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering and the early experiences that shaped their passion for research.
February 17, 2025

Structures Spring 2025 Seminar Series

Stephen J. Safranek, General Counsel at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., will be presenting a seminar titled, "Risk 'Management': Objective, Subjective, and Personal. The General Counsel's View" on Tuesday 2/18 at 4:30 p.m. in HAMP 1144.
January 28, 2025

How your car might be making roads safer

In this NYT article, Professor Darcy Bullock and other transportation experts weigh in on the benefits and potential pitfalls of connected vehicles providing critical information on roadways and traffic for transportation departments and researchers.
January 27, 2025

Omair Bin Saleem receives Young Investigator Award at ICPS6

PhD student Omair Bin Saleem has been presented with the Young Investigator Award for his contributions at the 6th International Conference on Protective Structures and the Special Issue of the International Journal of Protective Structures.
January 21, 2025

Four CCE grad students receive Crooks Graduate Scholarship

Woei-Chyi Chang, Paul Chintala, Oluwaseun Olabode, and Jorge Rojas have been selected to receive the 2024 Crooks Graduate Scholarship, awarded to outstanding graduate students in the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering with a concentration in construction engineering.
January 16, 2025

Purdue Engineering students, faculty win Best Paper Award at TRB

A paper on personalized autonomous driving co-authored by CCE PhD student Can Cui and a group of Purdue Engineering students and faculty received the Best Paper Award by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation (ACP30) at this year's conference held in Washington, D.C.
January 10, 2025

Purdue University UCA/NASST Student Chapter Participation at GBAMC

Members of the Purdue Underground Construction Association (UCA)/North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASST) Student Chapter participated in the 2nd Global Buried Asset Management Congress (GBAMC), held November 14-16, 2024, in Indianapolis.
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