civil engineering

Xiong (Bill) Yu often draws parallels between his mentoring style and his engineering research. As the Opal J. and Richard A. Vanderhoof Professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yu applies insights from his degrees in civil engineering, computer science and ele...

Xiong (Bill) Yu, the Opal J. and Richard A. Vanderhoof Professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was named 2023 Civil Engineer of the Year by the Cleveland section of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Yu was recognized for his “significant contributions...

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Case School of Engineering will host a “Snack and Chat” for undergraduates Friday, March 24, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in Bingham Building, Room 240. Current and prospective undergraduate students pursuing majors or minors in civil and environment...

A student estimating team from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering won first place in the 2023 Student Estimating Competition organized by the Ohio Contractors Association. The team is composed of Dan Cohen, Randy Radiarta, Hailey Degeorge, Shalev Grunschlag, Steven Leung and Shan...

For those who have stopped by Adel “Tony” Saada’s office over the years, the visit has felt like stepping into a small museum of his academic life. Bookshelves and filing cabinets lined the walls and housed aging notebooks filled with lecture notes on subjects like elasticity theory from Saada’s yea...

The Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health will host a talk titled “Smart Materials for Healthy Building Environment” Tuesday, March 23, from 9 to 10 a.m. featuring Xiong (Bill) Yu, the Opal J. and Richard A. Vanderhoof Professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engi...

Ram Krishna Mazumder, a PhD student from the Department of Civil Engineering, won first prize in a poster competition in the American Society of Civil Engineer’s (ASCE) Pipelines 2020 Conference. The Pipelines 2020 Conference is part of the Utility Engineering & Surveying Institute of the ASCE. Ram...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to to hear from Richard P. Strumpef, oceanographer with the NOAA National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, as part of the Cleveland Chapter of COPRI Invited Speaker Series. Strumpef will present “Forecast...

The Department of Civil Engineering will host a seminar titled “Designing the (Water) City of the Future” today (Dec. 6) from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. in Bingham Building, Room 103. Glen Daigger, member of the National Academy of Engineers and a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engi...

YeongAe Heo, assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, was appointed as a voting member to the American Concrete Institute's Committee 348, Structural Reliability and Safety. The goal of this committee is to develop and correlate knowledge on structural safety and to make recommen...