For her "contributions to remote sensing technology and leadership in its application for the benefit of humanity," Purdue University Civil Engineering Professor Melba Crawford is the recipient of this year's IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal.

Dr. Ming Qu, professor of civil engineering, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2023-2024 in Japan. The Fulbright Scholar Awards are highly competitive and prestigious fellowships that provide unique opportunities for scholars to teach, conduct research, and carry out professional projects worldwide.

Andrew Whelton, a Purdue professor of civil engineering and environmental and ecological engineering, has traveled numerous times to the sites of wildfires, where he and his students collect water samples to help guide a community on the best way to restore its water systems.

CE grad students Herta Montoya and Wen Tang received first and third place awards, respectively, in the best student paper competition held by the ASCE Structural Health Monitoring and Control Committee at the 2023 ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference.

Ernest (Chip) Blatchley, Lee A. Rieth Professor in Environmental Engineering and Professor in Environmental and Ecological Engineering, has received funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Department of Energy as part of a collaboration to develop next-generation personal protective equipment (PPE) that will provide protection against airborne pathogens.

Steven P. Osborn, PE, SE (BSCE '78), Founder and President of CE Solutions, Inc. and chair of the Civil Engineering Advisory Council, received the Trade Association Professionals (TAP) Lifetime Achievement Award. This award is presented annually to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional dedication and made an outstanding contribution to the A/E/C industry in central Indiana.

In this Bloomberg documentary on the environmental crisis following the train derailment and fire in East Palestine, Ohio, Andrew Whelton, Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering, shares the experiences of his response team in their effort to assist local residents affected by the disaster.

Makarand “Mark” Hastak, professor and Dernlan Family Head of Construction Engineering and Management, has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Construction.

Congratulations to John Brand (BSCE '83), President of Butler, Fairman & Seufert, for receiving the 2023 President's Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Indiana. The award recognizes devotion to the betterment of the business of consulting engineering.

Theodore 'Ted' Weidner, a professor of engineering practice at Purdue, has decades of experience as a facilities and construction manager at public and private institutions. He thinks people interested in the discipline might enjoy these books.

Robert J. Connor, Jack and Kay Hockema Professor of Civil Engineering, received the lifetime achievement award from the American Institute of Steel Construction for his significant contributions to the advancement of steel bridge design.

Purdue University has received a $10 million commitment from Gerald (BSCE '64, MBA '71) and Nanette Lyles for unrestricted support of the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business.

Kumares C. Sinha, Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, presented his lecture titled "Next Generation Urban Transportation, Urban Living, and the Role of Tall Buildings" as part of Lehigh University's Fazlur Rahman Khan Distinguished Lecture Series.

Civil Engineering Ph.D. student Jinglin Jiang has received a 2023-2024 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.

Amit Varma, Purdue’s Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering and director of Bowen Laboratory, was part of the Purdue research to establish SpeedCore, an award-winning construction system.

Civil Engineering Ph.D. student Satya Sundar Patra has received a 2023-2024 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 University engineers Dionysios Aliprantis, Nadia Gkritza, John Haddock and Steve Pekarek are testing technology they designed to enable electric vehicles to receive power from the road.

Ph.D. candidate Hazem Usama Abdelhady is the winner of the 2023 International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) Scholarship for his dissertation research on Great Lakes shoreline changes in response to rapid water level fluctuation.

The Department of Energy has awarded a Purdue University team and Cummins, Inc., a $1.25-million grant to develop two action plans for zero-emission infrastructure along the I-80 Midwest corridor.

Emily Helmuth, CE undergrad and member of the Women in Engineering Program (WIEP), wrote this letter for the WIEP blog with advice for her younger sister Olivia, an incoming first-year engineering student this fall.