Rick Olson (BSCE 1983), PE, Regional Manager at Terracon Consultants, Inc., has been recognized as the Consulting Engineer of the Year by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Indiana for his significant contribution to the field of consulting engineering in Indiana.

View photos from the 61st annual CE Open, held on June 14th at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex.

The Lyles School of Civil Engineering's Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Graduate Program in Civil Engineering has been recognized as a top 5 graduate program in the country.

Two Olympic-sized (50-meter) swimming pools were constructed on Lucas Oil Stadium's field for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, marking the first time an indoor pool has been constructed in a venue of this size. Dave Burchard (BSCE '82) and his fellow Purdue alumni colleagues at Shiel Sexton organized the build.

A Purdue research team led by Panagiota Karava, Professor of Civil Engineering, has been awarded a $1.6M grant from the National Science Foundation to fund their project "Smart energy assistants for affordable housing communities."

The U.S. housing market is in crisis, due to a lack of affordable housing and a shortage of labor and materials to build them. Purdue University has a solution: NextHouse, an initiative to develop the next generation of factory-built housing.

Nadia Gkritza, Professor of Civil Engineering and Agricultural and Biological Engineering, will join the 2024 cohort of the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES) fellowship program at Drexel University.

Pablo Orosa Iglesias, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, placed in the top five of 38 nominees put forward by faculty and students as the top candidates from colleges across the Purdue campus for the 2024 Graduate School Postdoc Mentor Award.

CE graduate students Gaia Cervini and Hansae Kim placed first and second, respectively, in the Emerging Professional Group Research Competition at the 2024 Indiana GIS conference.

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A research team led by Brandon Boor, associate professor in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, published a new study in the journal Cell Reports Sustainability that states modern buildings continually release volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to outdoor air and are likely to be an important contributor to the VOC burden of the urban atmosphere.

Purdue University and Google announced Thursday (May 23) a new collaborative research project aimed at exploring the use of AI to develop innovative solutions for low-carbon industrial building design.

Rao ("GS") Govindaraju, Bowen Engineering Head of Civil Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, and Venkatesh Merwade, Professor of Civil Engineering, were recognized at the ASCE's 2024 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Congratulations to the Purdue University Student Chapter of Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) for being selected to receive the 2024 Student Chapter Award. The Student Chapter award recognizes a chapter that has provided an exemplary experience for its members with robust programming and outstanding administration.

Jan Olek, James H. and Carol H. Cure Professor in Civil Engineering and Director of the North Central Superpave Center, has been elected to serve on the American Concrete Institute's Committee on Nominations for 2024-2025.

Civil Engineering Ph.D. student Chunxu Huang has received a 2024-2025 ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers) Grant-in-Aid Award, a $10,000 award given to outstanding graduate students conducting research in High Performance Buildings or HVAC fields.

Purdue ASCE, now in its 100th year, brought a record 61 student competitors to the annual symposium. The team won a total of 13 awards and placed first overall in the event from a field of 14 universities.

Dr. George Zhou isn't a typical civil engineer, environmental engineer, or microbiologist; he’s all three. Since joining Purdue CE and EEE in 2014, Zhou has been recognized for his outstanding teaching, cutting-edge research, and impactful inventions. Zhou's research currently focuses on applying biotechnologies in engineering systems for contexts such as wastewater systems, antibiotic resistance, and biofuel production.

The biggest contributor to climate change is the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, especially by heavy industry such as power production and manufacturing. Purdue University researchers have patented a process using liquid filters to remove CO2 at the source, resulting in by-products that can also be recycled and reused.