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“This research is extremely important because of the large number of utility strikes and deaths and huge financial loss — billions every year,” Cai said.

As a civil engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Victor Gervais was in charge of Hannibal’s flood wall construction and witnessed its success during the Great Flood of 1993, shortly after the levee was completed.

Leslie Bonthron, Beau DeLaet, Amber Reiff and Charlie Stiens have been selected to receive Outstanding Undergraduate Senior awards.

Purdue Research Foundation President Brian Edelman announced Monday (February 19) the appointment of Richard J. Michal as vice president and chief facilities officer of the foundation.

Carlee Appelbaum is a junior in Construction Engineering and Management who received a large CEM scholarship for the 2017-2018 academic year.

New projections show climate change could induce a 5 percent increase for the average commercial building’s energy consumption in Indiana by the year 2100, while reducing an average residential home’s energy use by 3.5 percent. Sayanti Mukherjee, a postdoctoral research assistant in the Division of Construction Engineering and Management has co-authored a paper on this subject with Roshanak Nateghi, an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering.

Students in Purdue’s Construction Engineering and Management Senior Design course have partnered with Brookside Community Church in Indianapolis to help develop transitional housing for ex-offenders who are re-entering society. This collaboration is a result of a new and improved course format developed by course instructor Brandon Fulk and PhD candidate Kyubyung Kang, which puts real-world projects into the hands of students.

The Asphalt Pavement Association of Indiana has named Jason Buechlein (BSCEM '19) and Alexander Mahan (BSCEM '19) 2017 APAI Scholars.

While the majority of alumni find themselves pursuing a professional engineering license in construction, others like Luke Marklin (BSCEM ’07) discover their passion for the management and operations side of business right away. In a move skirting the norm for many CEM alumni, Marklin has taken on an executive position outside the construction industry.

Nelson Frech (BSCEM '17) came from a family of passionate lawyers and business managers in Honduras, but it was his father’s shift away from retail business and into the real estate industry when he was a child that laid the foundation for a Purdue engineer-to-be.