Bechtel Corp. recently presented its Innovation of the Year award to Bowen Laboratory at Purdue University for its contributions to a large-scale government project. The award recognizes proven innovations that have delivered unprecedented results within the company’s execution model.

Gov. Eric J. Holcomb was a featured guest at the 109th Purdue Road School Transportation Conference and Expo on March 14-15 at Purdue.

Luna Lu, the Reilly Professor and acting head of Purdue's Lyles School of Civil Engineering, has developed technology that could replace methods the construction industry has been using for more than a hundred years to test when concrete structures are ready to take on an external load.

Governor Eric J. Holcomb will be a featured guest at the 109th Purdue Road School Transportation Conference and Expo March 14-15.

Team Carbonbusters from Purdue University was selected as the Great Lakes Regional Winner in the EnergyTech University Prize. The team was awarded $3,000 for their business plan for their entry, “Removing the Barrier to Entry to Net-Zero Biofuels.”

CE graduate student Zainab Saka has been selected by the Indianapolis Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) Chapter as the recipient of the Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded annually to inspire and support women who aspire to pursue a career path in transportation.

Mirian Velay-Lizancos, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, has developed a process that improves upon the traditional method to incorporate phase change materials into construction materials.

Phillip Dunston has been appointed Dean's Faculty Fellow for HBCU engagement, and James Krogmeier has been appointed associate dean for facilities and operations in the College of Engineering.

Ayhan Irfanoglu spent his early childhood in the Turkish town of İskenderun, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and an hour’s drive from Antakya, the biblical city of Antioch. Returning to his home country following the series of massive earthquakes on Feb. 6 that have killed over 50,000 people, Irfanoglu says the devastation is overwhelming. But the Purdue University professor remains steadfast in his mission as a civil and structural engineer.

A Purdue CE research team is back in town after a trip to the site of the Norfolk Southern train derailment. The team, led by CE/EEE Professor Andrew Whelton and several students, collected water samples from creeks and homes in East Palestine, Ohio, where a train derailed and spilled hazardous materials like vinyl chloride.

William (Bill) Bailey, PE, SE (BSCE 1988, MSCE 1989), 2021 recipient of the CE Alumni Achievement Award, has been named the sixth CEO of engineering and consulting firm Crawford, Murphy & Tilly.

Pablo Zavattieri, Jerry M. and Lynda T. Engelhardt Professor in Civil Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Fellow grade of membership recognizes exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession and to ASME.

Douglas M. Owen (BSCE '80), senior principal at Stantec, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to drinking water quality, expansion of potable reuse and integration of sustainability in water treatment plant design.

Assistant Professor Jinha Jung, along with a group of geomatics graduate students, represented Purdue Geomatics at the 71st annual conference of the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors, held January 18-20 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Professor Samuel Labi and a group of engineering/technology students represented Purdue University as AV racing Team Black & Gold at the international Autonomous Challenge @ CES held at the Las Vegas Speedway on January 7, 2023.

Andrew Whelton, Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering, contributed to a CBS News report about health risks plaguing East Palestine, Ohio after an explosive train derailment earlier this month forced hundreds of evacuations.

Ayhan Irfanoglu, Professor and Associate Head of the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, will be surveying the impact of the recent earthquake in Turkey this week with an advance reconnaissance team dispatched jointly by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association (GEER).

Several CE structures faculty members comment on the recent devastation caused by a massive earthquake that struck parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday, including Professor and Associate Head Ayhan Irfanoglu, a native of Turkey, who will join in a student-led humanitarian effort taking place this afternoon from 3:30-6:30pm in WALC 1132.

Kumares C. Sinha, the Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, has been honored by ASCE with the 2023 Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) award for demonstrated excellence in furthering civil engineering education.