Prof. Thanos Tzempelikos is the Chair of the 1st International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue. The conference will take place on July 12-15, 2010 together with two other major conferences, organized by Ray W. Herrick Laboratories.

Congratulations to Prof. Kumares Sinha, recipient of the Transportation Research Board's 2009 Roy W. Crum Award. This award recognizes outstanding achievement in transportation research and research management and is the highest honor bestowed by the TRB.

The 2010 National Student Steel Bridge Competition will be hosted here at Purdue! More information is available at the website.

Congratulations to Prof. Satish Ukkusuri for advising his most recent Ph.D. student to being honored with the INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics Best Dissertation Award for 2009.

Prof. Amit Varma is leading a team of researchers working with Westinghouse Electric Co. to ensure that a new design for nuclear power plants will stand up to strong earthquakes.

"Geospatial Technology for Earth Observation," an in-depth and broad collection of recent progress in Earth observation, serves as a valuable training source for researchers, developers & practitioners of geospatial science.

"Economic Jumpstart: Investments in Transportation"

Congratulations to Prof. Julio Ramirez on the new NSF grant to establish Purdue as the headquarters for the NEES (Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) program. Dr. Ramirez will serve as Director of the Center. Professors Mete Sozen, Mike Kreger, Santiago Pujol and Ayhan Irfanoglu are also involved with the new NEES Center.

Two Purdue graduate students have developed sampling kits and educational materials for three Native Alaskan villages as part of an interdisciplinary partnership between Purdue faculty and the Alaska Native Youth Institute. Leila Nyberg (CE/ESE) and Laurel Royer (Agronomy) became involved with the project in February 2008.

Congratulations to Kendra Schenk, recipient of the $7,500 Kennedy/Jenks Consultants Scholarship.

CE student Sara Greer has spent the summer (and will spend the following two summers) taking part in an international co-op program in Kuwait City.

CE sophomore Brett Westcott, along with Cameron Brown, have gained an international reputation as the "Compliment Guys" for spreading goodwill & high-fives to the Purdue student body. Now they're taking their operation on the road with a ten city tour sponsored by Kodak.

Congratulations to Fred Mannering on his appointment as the Charles Pankow Professor of Civil Engineering.

Prof. Jan Olek weighs in on this NBC news article on processing rice husks for use in concrete.

Congratulations to Dr. Thomas E. Mulinazzi (MS '66, PhD '73) for receiving the Steeples Award this spring for his service to Kansas.

The Schneider Corporation, Indiana's largest civil engineering, GIS and land surveying company, awarded Derek Anger, a junior CE student, with a scholarship for the Spring 2009 semester.

A 3:20 video featuring a recap of 2008 highlights in Civil Engineering. Video file is 11.3MB, and is windows media format.

"Designed to Sustain: Architectural Engineering Emphasis new to Purdue"