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Oct 19 2018 CE Department's Siavash Zamiran Receives ASCE 2018 Young Engineer Award
Sep 26 2018 SIUE Designated a Living Architecture Regional Center of Excellence
Aug 29 2018 SIUE Alumnus Ed Grady Supports School of Engineering with Major Contribution

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SIUE Designated a Living Architecture Regional Center of Excellence

Posted September 26, 2018

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC), and its charitable arm, the Green Infrastructure Foundation (GIF) have named Southern Illinois University Edwardsville as a Living Architecture Regional Center of Excellence (LARCE). SIUE is one of four higher education institutions in the nation to receive the honorable designation. more...

SIUE Alumnus Ed Grady Supports School of Engineering with Major Contribution

Posted August 29, 2018

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering’s (SOE) Student Design Center (SDC) will be filled with an entrepreneurial spirit as the center for engagement and creativity features the names of a distinguished alumnus, who has contributed a total of $1 million, and his two most inspiring educators. Civil engineering alumnus Ed Grady ‘72 recognized how the SDC would raise the national profile of the School and the incredible impact it would make on students... (m...

MiTek Donates Funds to support Timber Design Course

Posted July 05, 2018

MiTek Industries has made a generous donation of $10,000 to support the offering of Timber Design to SIUE students during the 2018-19 academic year. Mitek manufactures steel connectors for residential wooden trusses and creates software, aiding engineers in such designs. Many CE alumni are employed in their Chesterfield, MO, office. We are grateful for such generous in support of our program and students. MiTek and our other sponsors are listed here.

Vickie Larose Named Most Influential Business Women

Posted June 27, 2018

Congratulations to for being named in the 2018 class of the Business Journal's Most Influential Business Women.

New Chi Epsilon Inductees for 2018

Posted April 24, 2018

Please congratulate our new XE inductees: Jared L. Frye, Logan M. Hawker, Devin L. Isselhard, Alex P. Nail, Cade G. Puzey, Clint T. Reilson, Dana N. Sigman, Michael J. Thoele, Jared J. Williams, Ryne S. Wirtjes, and Justin T. Zanger

Also pictured are the incoming officers (left to right):

Logan Hawker, Marshal
Alex Nail, Treasurer
Michael Thoele, VP
Erich Kopp, President
Jared Williams, Secretary
Clint Reilson, Associate Editor

Chi Epsilon, new members and incoming officers for 2018-2019

Two Ph.D. students graduated from Civil Engineering in Fall 2017

Posted December 21, 2017

The Civil Engineering Department has successfully graduated two more doctoral students through the SIUE-SIUC cooperative doctoral program in engineering science. Dr. Azadeh Akhavan Bloorchian (environmental and water resources engineering, advised by Dr. Jianpeng Zhou and co-advised by Dr. Abdolreza Osouli), and Dr. Siavash Zamiran (geotechnical engineering, advised by Dr. Abdolreza Osouli) were conferred their Ph.D. degrees at the Fall 2017 commencement. By now, six Ph.D. have graduated from th...

SIUE Civil Engineering Assists with Hosting MATHCOUNTS Competition

Posted December 19, 2017

The SIUE Department of Civil Engineering is proud to assist the Illinois Society of Civil Engineers (ISPE) with hosting MATHCOUNTS on February 3^rd, 2018. MATHCOUNTS is a non-profit organization that tries to engage middle school students in math and problem solving. In February, the St. Clair Chapter of ISPE hosts our local MATHCOUNTS competition at SIUE, during which students from a number of local schools compete individually or as a team in several different rounds. From our competition...

Marino Engineering Donates Funds to Geotechnical Engineering Specialization

Posted December 05, 2017

Marino Engineering made two generous donations to the Geotechnical Engineering specialization in the Civil Engineering Department. The students, faculty, and staff appreciate the support to our program. Faculty member Dr. A. Osouli said, “These funds provide much-needed support to purchase needed equipment and to fund graduate students and faculty in this specialization to continue ongoing research.”

Civil Engineering’s faculty Dr. Zhou is approved by SIU Trustees to serve on ERTC Advisory Committee

Posted September 18, 2017

Civil Engineering department's Professor Jianpeng (Jim) Zhou has been approved by SIU Trustees to serve on the ERTC Advisory Committee. Please see the full news release.

Akash Jain, is the recipient of the 2017 ASCE/SEI St. Louis Chapter Structural Engineering Scholarship

Posted August 29, 2017

SIUE CE graduate student, Akash Jain, is the recipient of the 2017 ASCE/SEI St. Louis Chapter Structural Engineering Scholarship. He will receive this scholarship at the St. Louis Section annual dinner.

This structural scholarship has been offered since 2013 by the St. Louis Chapter of ASCE/SEI to a student pursuing a Master’s degree with a structural emphasis enrolled during the Fall semester at a Midwest University.