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"

Researchers at Purdue University and the NEXTRANS Center are applying cutting-edge technology to develop a model that can accurately measure travel-time reliability. This model may provide a new basis for transportation professionals to monitor the performance and benefits of activities implemented on roadway networks.

Congratulations to S. Ebow Coleman, William N. Dudley Jr., Charles Dulic, Rosalie F. Morgan & James E. Rowings, recipients of the 2009 CE Alumni Achievement Awards!

Congratulations to Profs. Bethel, Mikhail, Shan, and grad students J. Youn, S. Alkheder & J. Wang on their achievements!

Congratulations to Nate Cooper, Brian Holman, Jithin Kumar, Amanda Shelly & coach Kevin Mueller for defending the trophy at the ASCE Indiana Section Meeting in Carmel.

On April 24, 2009, the Purdue Geotechnical Society hosted the 7th G.A. Leonards Lecture, in honor of Professor Gerald A. Leonards, a Purdue geotech faculty member from 1946-1991. This year's Leonards lecturer is Prof. Bernard Amadei from the Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, with his lecture entitled "Engineering With a Human Face."

Architectural Engineering Design I (CE 497-06) will introduce students to the design of energy-efficient buildings.

Sanjiv Kumar won the Outstanding Student Paper Award in the hydrology section at the 2008 American Geophysical Union's fall meeting.

What the federal government's stimulus package will mean for Indiana roads, how Super Bowl host cities have planned for traffic, and the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway were among the topics discussed March 10-12 at the 95th annual Purdue Road School.

Issued by the Indiana Geographic Information Council, the award was presented at the 2009 Indiana GIS Conference.

The latest seminar in the Drag Distinguished Lecture Series was held at Bowen Lab on Friday, March 27th. Michael D. Engelhardt, the DeWitt C. Greer Centennial Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, gave his lecture titled, "Structural Fire Engineering: Current Issues and Future Trends."

Prof. Cary Troy's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) took its maiden launch Oct. 2nd at Lake Maxinkuckee in Culver, Indiana.

Civil Engineering graduate C.J. Chang, Ph.D. 1979, president of Chung Hua University in Taiwan, was one of the recipients of the Purdue College of Engineering 2006 Distinguished Engineering Alumni awards on February 23, 2007.

CE Alum Ron Klemencic, of Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Inc., has been named among the Top 25 newsmakers of 2008 by Engineering News-Record