A paper co-authored by Prof. Venkatesh Merwade and grad students Zhu Liu and Keighobad Jafarzadegan has been named a Journal of Flood Risk Management Highly Commended Paper by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management.

The Lyles School of Civil Engineering congratulates our faculty, staff & students who have received school awards this fall. Their outstanding achievements and dedication are a hallmark of the Lyles School.

A team of Purdue faculty including Jan Olek, James H. and Carol H. Cure Professor in Civil Engineering and Director of the North Central Superpave Center (NCSC); Chris Williams, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering; Pablo Zavattieri, Jerry M. and Lynda T. Engelhardt Professor in Civil Engineering; and Jeff Youngblood, Professor of Materials Engineering, is among the multi-university group of researchers led by Arizona State who received a 5-year, $2 million grant from the NSF for development of a 3D Concrete Printing Network (3DConnect) for accelerating progress in additive manufacturing of concrete.