civil engineering

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 Mul...

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 reliabi...

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 pla...

Whenever you fill a glass from the tap, the water that comes out is full of hundreds of contaminants you can’t see. Though the water is treated, solutions have not yet been able to address emerging contaminants, from pesticides to personal care products to pharmaceutical compounds. Photo of Huichu...

YeongAe Heo, assistant professor of civil engineering and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellow, was recently highlighted in an article titled “Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Gulf Coast Research.” The piece, published in Trans...

Madeleine Harris, Aaron Mann, Nicholas Merchant-Wells and Jack Worsham, all civil engineering undergraduate students, won first prize in the Ohio Water Environment Association (OWEA) 2018 Student Design Competition. They were mentored by Kurt Rhoads, assistant professor of civil engineering. Their ...

Three Case Western Reserve University students and their faculty advisor received awards for their research poster and paper at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2018 Space and Earth Conference. The research poster created by undergraduate student Xiyu Zhang and co-authored by PhD candidate ...

YeongAe Heo, an assistant professor of civil engineering, was selected as a 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers ExCEEd Fellow. Heo also is a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellow. The ExCEEd Teaching Workshop is a six-day pr...

Individuals from the Department of Civil Engineering recently had a paper titled “Effective and Safe Berming for Pavement Shoulder Maintenance in Cold Regions” published. Authors on the paper are: Yuan Guo and Jiale Li, graduate assistants in the department; Xiong (Bill) Yu, professor of civil engi...

Case Western Reserve researcher tests new methods to anchor wind turbines, part of LEEDCo, Icebreaker Windpower project There are lots of moving parts to bringing the world’s first freshwater wind turbines to Lake Erie by 2018, but Case Western Reserve University researchers are focused on keeping o...