CE graduate student Aishwarya Sharma received the best MS poster award at Purdue University's Computational Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs (CIGP) Fall 2023 Symposium, held November 19, 2023.

PhD student Ricardo Chahine has been selected as an International Road Federation (IRF) Fellow for the Class of 2024. This fellowship has been the cornerstone for many who are now leading figures in the realm of roads and transportation globally.

Panagiota Karava, professor in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, leads a multidisciplinary research team that has developed MySmartE, an eco-feedback and gaming platform for residential energy management.

The average morning routine for many Americans includes inhaling several milligrams of chemicals that may be harmful to their health, Purdue University researchers have found.

Michael Kim (Ph.D. 2021) started as tenure-track assistant professor in Architectural Engineering at Chung-Ang University, South Korea in September 2023.

Purdue engineering professor Andrew Whelton is driven to help people, and has found an opportunity to do so through disaster response. In this short film from its series "The Climate and Us," BBC StoryWorks features Whelton's efforts to help citizens in Louisville and Superior, Colorado, in the wake of the Marshall Fire.

Kurt Henkhaus, Ph.D., P.E. of Martin/Martin, Inc. will be presenting a seminar titled, "Warehouse Collapses: Load Paths, Redundancy, and Details" on Tuesday 11/14 at 4:30 p.m. in HAMP 1144.

Kush Paliwal, PhD student in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, will be presenting on Tuesday 11/14 at 3:30 p.m. in HAMP 2123. The subject of the seminar is "Role of parafluvial processes on the downstream transport of eDNA in lotic environments."

Advances in technology and the effects of climate change are yielding changes in the practice of civil engineering. Purdue University’s 100% online master’s degree in Civil Engineering with its Infrastructure, Resiliency and Sustainability track is designed to help prepare working professionals for that future.

Purdue-led guide to natural hazards research now incorporates methodologies in hazard simulation and modeling, social science, and extreme events reconnaissance.

Dr. Monica Prezzi, Professor of Civil Engineering at the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, has been appointed Editor of ASCE's Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, previously known as the Journal of Geotechnical Engineering.

The 18th C.W. Lovell Distinguished Lecture will be held on Friday, November 3rd at 4:30pm in Room 121 of the Burton Morgan Building. Edward Kavazanjian, Jr., Regents' Professor and the Ira A. Fulton Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Arizona State University, will lecture on "GEO-Alchemy: Biogeotechnical Carbonate Precipitation for Hazard Mitigation and Ground Improvement."

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has honored MKA Chairman and CEO Ron Klemencic, PE, SE (BSCE '85) with this year's Henry L. Michel Award for Industry Advancement of Research.

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.