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Aug 19 2019 SIUE Alumna Receives “Innovative Transportation Award”
May 22 2019 Civil Engineering Researchers Measure Salt Concentration in Local Bodies of Water Study Impact on Ecosystem
Mar 05 2019 SIUE ASCE Student Chapter Participates at 2019 SciFest Engineering Expo

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SIUE Ranked 1st in the US in Community and Public Service

Posted September 06, 2019

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.

SIUE Alumna Receives “Innovative Transportation Award”

Posted August 19, 2019

Jerilyn Hassard (BSCE 1997) received the “Innovative Transportation Award” for her work on a project designing replacement approach structures for the Martin Luther King bridge. Her design included five spans of composite steel plate girders, one being curved. As the project lead, she coordinated with several agencies and craftily-negotiated various project changes and additions. Ms. Hassard is a Senior Project Manager at Modjeski and Masters in Edwardsville, IL. This award recognize...

Civil Engineering Researchers Measure Salt Concentration in Local Bodies of Water Study Impact on Ecosystem

Posted May 22, 2019

CE Professor Rohan Benjankar is working to understand the effects of salt in local waterways may have on the ecosystem. See the full article here.

SIUE ASCE Student Chapter Participates at 2019 SciFest Engineering Expo

Posted March 05, 2019

The SIUE American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter participated in the 2019 Saint Louis Science Center SciFest Engineering Expo on Saturday, Feb. 23. Chapter members demonstrated a small shake table model with instrumentation and described to visitors fundamental structural engineering concepts that engineers need to consider when designing buildings and bridges.

Visitors, especially children, were invited to build structural models which were then mounted to the shake table to...

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...