Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University
Spotlights
The Purdue Board of Trustees on Friday (Feb. 21) approved naming the School of Civil Engineering for the Lyles family in recognition of a $15 million gift from the Lyles Foundation.
On April 26, 2014, Prof. Lyesse Laloui of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology will deliver the 12th Leonards Lecture on "Advances in the Analysis of Thermo-Active Foundations." The PGS Workshop "Energy Geotechnics" will be held in conjunction with the lecture.
Associate Prof. Pablo Zavattieri and his collaborators selected for $7.5 million grant to study more than 20 organisms to develop strong, tough materials based on their design structures.
CE alumni Bill Dudley and Bob Bowen rode 153 miles in the 2014 BP MS-150 from Houston to Austin (Texas) on the Bechtel Cycling Team to support the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2013-2014 CE Alumni Achievement Awards: Gordon R. Archibald, Robert P. Elsperman, M. Janet Everett, Keith A. London, Charles A. Miller, and Joseph C. Sanders.
Steven Lavrenz (JTRP), Pulkit Parikh, and Vinay Varadarajan represented Purdue in the regional Traffic Bowl competition sponsored by Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) on April 14, 2014 in Indianapolis.
Congratulations to Jason Weiss, the Jack and Kay Hockema Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Pankow Materials Lab, who has been named a recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards in Memory of Charles B. Murphy.
Assistant Professor Cary Troy has been named the recipient of Purdue's new Exceptional Early Career Award. The award was created by the Office of the Provost and the Murphy Award selection committee to recognize outstanding undergraduate teaching among Purdue's early career, tenure-track faculty.
The 100th Purdue Road School was held March 11-13 2014. Civil Engineering Professors Darcy Bullock and John Haddock served as co-chairs of the conference that included 160 sessions attended by approximately 2,330 transportation professionals.
Bridges and More takes the reader from the early years of Civil Engineering when Purdue's campus consisted of a smattering of red brick buildings surrounded by grassy meadows and roads flanked by white, wooden fences to today's state-of-the-art facilities such as the Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research and the online hub for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).
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News
The 54th Annual CE Open will be held on Friday, May 16, 2014 at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex! Join us for lunch, golf, and dinner - registration is still open!
CE Alumnus Greg Miller, President of Diamond Construction Company located in Quincy, was elected as President of the Associated General Contractors of Illinois at the 107th AGCI Annual Convention held in Springfield. Miller served last year as the First Vice President and previously as the Second Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer.
The School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University has identified "Forensics and Rehabilitation of Infrastructure" as a theme for inter-disciplinary research and education. Two faculty positions are available in forensic evaluation of structures and their components, development of effective mitigation and repair strategies, and development of new and more sustainable materials.
The College of Engineering at Purdue University invites applications from outstanding faculty candidates to join the Division of Construction Engineering and Management. We seek candidates with expertise in, but not limited to, one or more of the following areas of interest: Building Information Modeling, process modeling, simulation and visualization sensor networks, sustainable systems, Smart Grids, intelligent infrastructure, contract administration, decision making in complex systems, knowledge management, energy optimization, safety, System of Systems.
Purdue University has identified "Big Data" as a major thrust for inter-disciplinary research and education. Several faculty positions are available in enabling technologies as well as in domain sciences that deal with the use and management of digital data. The new hires will join a strong faculty group engaged in this thrust area and will have a unique opportunity to help shape Purdue’s vision and research/education agenda in “Big Data”.