CCE News & Spotlights

October 10, 2014

New system could help researchers preserve, share data

A team of researchers led by Santiago Pujol are developing a standardized system to solve a recurring problem: experimental data are repeatedly forgotten or even lost because researchers do not have a reliable and convenient way to preserve and share them.
October 8, 2014

Frosch receives ACI Award

Robert J. Frosch, professor of civil engineering and associate dean of resource planning and management, has been given the Arthur J. Boase Award from ACI, the American Concrete Institute.
September 8, 2014

Virtual environments will help engineering students learn how to inspect bridges

Robert Connor, associate professor of civil engineering, is giving students experience and insight in bridge inspections in part through immersive, interactive virtual environments being created by ITaP's Envision Center. Starting Thursday (Sept. 11), the center will present a series of fall seminars about visualizing, animating or employing virtual reality in research or teaching.
August 25, 2014

Sadeghi receives Best Paper Award

Ph.D. student Seyed Amir Sadeghi and his co-authors (including Panagiota Karava, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and CEM) received the first prize in the Student Best Paper Award Competition at the 3rd International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue.
August 22, 2014

Civil Engineering celebrates school's naming

The Purdue University School of Civil Engineering officially marked its renaming as the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at a ceremony Friday (Sept. 26). The school is named in recognition of a $15 million gift from the Lyles Foundation.
August 18, 2014

Gkritza, engineering faculty honored by NAE

Nadia Gkritza, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Agricultural and Biological Engineering, is one of three Purdue engineering faculty members who have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's sixth Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium along with 77 of the nation's most innovative, young engineering educators.
July 28, 2014

Mikhail receives ASCE Surveying and Mapping Award

Professor Emeritus Edward M. Mikhail was selected by the Geomatics Division of ASCE to receive the 2014 Surveying and Mapping Award for his devotion and contributions to the fields of photogrammetry and remote sensing.
July 24, 2014

Drnevich named to Board of Ethical Review

Professor Emeritus Vincent P. Drnevich, P.E., Ph.D., F.NSPE was named to the Board of Ethical Review by the National Society of Professional Engineers’ president Harve Hnatiuk, P.E., F.NSPE.
June 30, 2014

Bill Dudley named President and CEO of Bechtel

Bill Dudley (BSCE '74), who has served as president and chief operating officer since 2008, has been named president & CEO of the Bechtel group of companies, which includes Bechtel Corporation and all of its subsidiaries worldwide.
June 30, 2014

Raymond Moore Joins Parsons Brinckerhoff

Raymond Moore (BSCE '93) has been named a Senior Professional Manager in the New York City office of Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global infrastructure strategic consulting, engineering, and program/construction management organization.
June 27, 2014

Civil Engineering UK Study Abroad

Professor Bullock led a group of fourteen engineering students on a Study Abroad trip to the United Kingdom in May, 2014. The trip blended experience-based learning about 18th and 19th century civil engineering infrastructure with field visits to modern 21st century engineering systems under construction.
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