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.
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 Shivam Tripathi, recognized with a Best Challenge Paper Award at the Third International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data.
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.
U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar has named Chris Limcaco (BSCE '92), President of Algaewheel, a Lugar Energy Patriot for demonstrating leadership and initiative in taking concrete action to improve America's energy security.
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 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."
