Civil Engineering

David. J. Sherrill, PLS, Land Surveying Program Coordinator and Instructor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, presented at the 64th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors at Osage Beach, Missouri in October 2021. The Association has over 800 members from Missouri and surrounding States.   Sherrill PLS/Instructor at SIUE, presented in two sessions, “Standards of Professional Conduct, State of Illinois”, Section 1270.57 ILCS, and...

Four SIUE Civil Engineering graduate students and three faculty members attended the 2021 Mid-America Environmental Engineering Conference in St. Louis, Missouri this September. Master’s student Pooyan Nikeghbali, advised by Dr. Rohan Benjankar, presented work from his thesis research.

SIUE graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Shaker Nairat said, “Attending the MAEEC conference gave me the opportunity to learn about and explore new and advanced research studies in the environmenta...

The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) has awarded two $5,000 Fellowship Grants to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering (SOE) students. Mr. Hamid Rostami is a student in SIUE’s Cooperative Program in Engineering Science, working under the guidance of Abdolreza Osouli, PhD, in the Department of Civil Engineering. His fellowship will support research titled, “Evaluation of Geosynthetic Reinforcement Techniques for Buried Petroleum Pipelines Subjected to Earthquake ...

Faculty and staff in the Department of Civil Engineering have been awarded a $462K grant by Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) for a 4-year research project that will analyze scour estimates at bridge sites in Illinois to produce findings that will lead to improvements related to bridge design and maintenance. Abdolreza Osouli, PhD, PE, Associate Professor, will serve as the project's  Primary Investigator (PI) with Brent Vaughn, Laboratory Specialist, will also support the p...

Prof. Brad Cross, professor of structural engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, has been named Fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers.  More information about Dr. Cross and this honor can be found here.

Congratulations Dr. Cross!

October 24, 2020 (Saturday), 8:40am-5:30pm

Register Online by October 16, 2020.

A one-day, virtual conference for Graduate Students in civil and environmental engineering from six universities to share ed...

The 2019 National University Rankings in Washington Monthly’s Top National Universities ranked SIUE first in the nation in community and public service.  This ranking evaluated 395 universities in the United States that award doctoral degrees and includes prestigious institutions such as Harvard, MIT, and Princeton.  Additionally, overall SIUE ranked 135, ahead of many others in the St. Louis region. See https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019college-guide/national.