civil engineering

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

YeongAe Heo, assistant professor in the department of civil engineering, was part of a committee that worked on a set of guidelines to identify when multihazard considerations are necessary when making structural engineering decisions. Heo is vice chair of the Structural Engineering Institute’s…

Ram Krishna Mazumder, a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering, received the Utility Engineering & Surveying Institute of American Society of Civil Engineers student scholarship for attending Pipelines 2019 conference July 21–24 in Nashville. Ram’s research focuses on risk and…

Case Western Reserve civil engineer applies ‘thermochromic’ treatment to roofing materials, which change color to reflect or absorb heat In Bill Yu’s future world, the roof of your house might change its colors from dark blue to light blue when the sun comes out—and both your pocketbook and the…