TIME's annual list of best inventions features a sensor that civil engineering professor Luna Lu and her team have designed to reduce construction and traffic on concrete-paved highways.

Julio Ramirez, Karl H. Kettelhut Professor in Civil Engineering and Director of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Network Coordination Office (NCO) Center, has accepted a 2-year appointment to serve as a Special Government Employee (SGE) member of the Advisory Committee on Structural Safety of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Facilities.

The Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University invites applications for a non-tenure track Faculty of Engineering Practice at the rank of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor.

A team of researchers led by Pablo Zavattieri, the Jerry M. and Lynda T. Engelhardt Professor in Civil Engineering, have developed patent-pending intelligent architected materials that can dissipate energy caused by bending, compression, torque and tensile stresses, avoiding permanent plastic deformation or damage, and may also exhibit shape memory properties that allow them to have actuation capacity.

The Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant/associate professor levels, to begin July 01, 2024, or on a mutually agreed upon date thereafter. Purdue University seeks to attract exceptional candidates with interests and expertise in all areas of Civil Engineering, including, but not limited to, physical- and cyber-infrastructure, environmental sustainability, urban development, data-driven and human-centered approaches, and infrastructure resilience under extreme environments.

Ph.D. candidate Hazem Usama Abdelhady has been selected as a 2023 Freeman Fellowship recipient by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Andrew Whelton, professor of civil engineering and environmental and ecological engineering, has built a network of community leaders and experts who have dealt with the environmental aftermath of wildfires.

Ernest (Chip) Blatchley, Lee A. Rieth Professor in Environmental Engineering and Professor in Environmental and Ecological Engineering, has started a 2-year term as President-Elect of the International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA). This will be followed by a 2-year term as President.

David Restrepo (PhD 2015), Assistant Professor and Endowed Faculty Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the Univ. of Texas San Antonio, has been awarded a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his groundbreaking work on elastic micro-buckling in periodic architected materials. As a result of this award, Restrepo will receive $641,398 in funding over the next five years.

Reza Moini (PhD 2020), Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University, has been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award to understand and engineer a new generation of concrete composites, inspired by naturally tough materials such as bone and mother-of-pearl, to allow more resilient and efficient infrastructure.

The Lyles School of Civil Engineering is a top 5 civil engineering undergraduate program in the United States.

On Sept. 21, Luna Lu, associate dean and the Reilly Professor in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, will share how her "smart concrete," named a Fast Company Next Big Things in Tech, is cutting down construction time and saving taxpayers millions of dollars.

Tomas Morales (BSCE 1975), CEO and Co-Founder of Morales Group, Inc., has been named by the Indiana Historical Society (IHS) to the 2023 class of Indiana Living Legends. Each year, IHS recognizes extraordinary Hoosiers for their local, statewide and national accomplishments in a variety of areas and disciplines.

A joint research team that includes Prof. Jinha Jung and PhD student Joshua Carpenter has qualified to complete in next year's $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest, a global cross-disciplinary challenge of monitoring tropical biodiversity.

Bob Bowen (CE'62, HDR E'07) will celebrate 20 years of a unique game-day tradition Saturday when he leads a group of bicyclists on a long-distance trip to campus prior to Purdue Football's first home game.

PhD student Lance Parson has been selected to receive the 2023 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award. This highly prestigious award, which provides full tuition and fees coverage plus additional stipends for up to three years, was established in 1989 by direction of congress as an approach to increasing the number U.S. citizens receiving doctoral degrees in science and engineering disciplines of military importance.

Congratulations to the Purdue University Student Chapter of Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) for being selected to receive the 2023 Student Chapter Award. The Student Chapter award recognizes a chapter that has provided an exemplary experience for its members with robust programming and outstanding administration.

From responding as experts to major earthquakes and wildfires to designing modern marvels such as the Golden Gate Bridge, studying space habitats for NASA and innovating "smart concrete" to communicate when roads need repairs, Purdue University's undergraduate and graduate civil engineering programs consistently rank among the nation’s best, built on more than 130 years of outstanding teaching and research.

Konstantina (Nadia) Gkritza, Professor at the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, a Purdue University Faculty Scholar, Director of the Sustainable Transportation Systems Research Group, and the Campus Director of the NSF ASPIRE Engineering Research Center (ERC), has been named a fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Board of Directors.

With the development of artificial intelligence, many industries have undergone a technological revolution, and the field of materials science is no different. In this article, Luna Lu, Yining Feng and their co-authors combine advanced materials science theory and AI technology to design a framework for rapidly discovering high-performance thermoelectric materials.