Pablo Zavattieri, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, has been selected as one of the nation's 83 outstanding young engineers to attend the National Academy of Engineering's 2014 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.

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.

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.

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.

Purdue University earthquake engineer Julio Ramirez testified before Congress on Tuesday (July 29) as it debates reauthorizing legislation to reinstate federal research funding devoted to mitigating earthquake damage to the nation's infrastructure.

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.

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.

A group of 18 Purdue students traveled to Christchurch, New Zealand May 23rd through June 1st for the study abroad portion of a CE course on earthquake engineering.

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.

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.

Samuel Labi, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, is the recipient of the Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award for his outstanding and innovative work in advancing the area of transportation infrastructure asset management systems.

Yaghoob Farnam, Ph.D. candidate working under the supervision of Professor Jason Weiss, has received the 2014 Portland Cement Association (PCA) Education Foundation's J. P. Gleason Fellowship.

Stylianos Chatzidakis (NE), Anand Vadlamani (NE) and Tim McClure (CE), under the guidance of Dr. Bean (Prof. - NE) have been selected as finalists to the 2013-2014 ANS OPD/ETWDD Special Student Design Competition.

Darcy Bullock, professor of civil engineering and director of the Joint Transportation Research Program, has been chosen along with his research team, to receive the second annual Corps of Engagement Award from Purdue's Office of Engagement.

Ph.D. student Michelle Dojutrek and her co-authors received the Best Paper Award at the 10th International Conference of the Institute for Infrastructure Resilience and Reconstruction.

Students from Purdue's ASCE Seismic Design Team took part in the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's Undergraduate Design Competition, July 21-25 in Anchorage, Alaska.

The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers, captained by CE senior David Cannon, showcased its national champion Rube Goldberg machine to a national audience on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Dr. Ahmadreza Hedayat (Ph.D. 2013) is the recipient of the 2014 Dr. N.G.W. Cook Ph.D. Dissertation Award. The award is given annually by the American Rock Mechanics Association for the best doctoral dissertation in rock mechanics or rock engineering.