CCE News & Spotlights

June 11, 2025

Abhishek Subedi receives second runner-up award at ASCE EMI 2025, Zixin Wang named finalist

Abhishek Subedi, a PhD candidate in the Smart Informatix Laboratory led by Associate Professor Mohammad Jahanshahi, received the second runner-up award in the Best Student Paper Competition organized by the Structural Control and Health Monitoring Committee at the ASCE EMI 2025 Conference. Zixin Wang, another PhD candidate from the same lab, was also named a finalist in the EMI Machine Learning in Mechanics Student Paper Competition.
June 6, 2025

Amit Varma honored with AISC Lifetime Achievement Award

Amit H. Varma, Ph.D., Karl H. Kettelhut Professor in Civil Engineering and Director of Bowen Laboratory, has been recognized by the American Institute of Steel Construction with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his research and contributions in the areas of steel-concrete composite construction, fire design, and nuclear structures.
June 4, 2025

Purdue Engineering Graduate Student Profiles: Kike Garzon-Sabogal

Kike Garzon-Sabogal, a PhD candidate in the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, aims through his research to gain an understanding of material behavior at a grain scale in order to “tune” material properties for different performance outcomes and behaviors in dynamic events like vibrations and earthworks.
May 30, 2025

Chibueze Ajuonuma receives 2024 Slag Cement in Sustainable Concrete Award

The Slag Cement Association (SCA) announced Chibueze Sylvester Ajuonuma and his research project, "Practical Implementation of Internally Cured Slag Cement Concrete Using Superabsorbent Polymers," as a winner of its 2024 Slag Cement in Sustainable Concrete Awards. The winning projects were unveiled and celebrated on April 2, 2025, during the spring ACI Concrete Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
May 22, 2025

Jordan Cross wins 2024 Rothblatt Memorial Scholarship

Jordan Cross, a Ph.D. student in the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, has been awarded the 2024 Stephen H. Rothblatt Memorial Scholarship by the Air & Waste Management Association – Lake Michigan States Section (AWMA-LMSS). The award was presented at the Annual Air Conference in Chicago.
May 19, 2025

Engineering earthquake resilience

Concrete structures of the past weren't built to withstand the fury of an earthquake, but a groundbreaking solution from engineers at Purdue could change that. A research team led by Akanshu Sharma, the Jack and Kay Hockema Associate Professor in Civil Engineering and an expert in structural engineering hazard solutions, is testing a cost-effective, minimally invasive technique to fortify older concrete buildings against earthquakes, potentially saving lives and preserving structures worldwide.
May 13, 2025

Senior Design team awarded $8,000 through alumnus endowment

The Senior Design class is seen as both a rite of passage and the culmination of what a student at the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering has learned. For decades now, all students who have earned their BSCE at Purdue University have at least this one shared team project experience. This semester, alumnus Ron Klemencic (BSCE 1985, HDR 2025) further amplified the significance of the project though an $8,000 endowment awarded to the winning Senior Design team.
May 2, 2025

Video: Mosquitoes may lead to life-saving sensors

Fundamental science can have a profound impact when discoveries and research are developed into tangible solutions that benefit the public. In this NSF Discovery Files podcast, Pablo Zavattieri, the Jerry M. and Lynda T. Engelhardt Professor in Civil Engineering, discusses how research into mosquitoes may translate into bio-inspired sensors that could help save lives.
May 1, 2025

Ron Klemencic to receive honorary Doctor of Engineering

Ron Klemencic, chair and CEO of Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA), will receive an honorary Doctor of Engineering from the College of Engineering during the spring commencement ceremonies taking place at Elliott Hall of Music on Friday, May 16.
May 1, 2025

Purdue Day of Giving 2025 - Thank You!

THANK YOU! Because of YOU, the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering received 223 gifts, totaling $1,833,316 in just 24 hours on Purdue Day of Giving! These gifts will be used to further support our students, school, and research.
April 29, 2025

Celebrating 150 Years of Purdue Engineering - Gerald A. Leonards

Gerald A. "Jerry" Leonards (MSCE '48, PhD CE '52) was so beloved and respected that long after he died in 1997 at age 75, his 100th birthday was celebrated on this day at an event hosted by the Purdue Geotechnical Society. As a faculty member in Purdue's College of Engineering from 1952 to 1991, he gained recognition as a towering figure in geotechnical engineering.
April 23, 2025

Deborah L. Grubbe Selected as Recipient of Ted C. Kennedy Award and Medal

The National Academy of Construction (NAC) has selected Deborah (Deb) L. Grubbe (HDR 2010) as the 2025 recipient of the Ted C. Kennedy Award, the Academy's highest honor. She will receive the award and the accompanying medal at the NAC Annual Meeting on October 30 in Colorado Springs, CO, during the Academy's Annual Meeting.
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