Civil Engineering

The SIUE ASCE Student Chapter is the recipient of two prestigious recognition awards: the 2024 Letter of Significant Improvement and the 2024 Letter of Honorable Mention.  These awards are for the Chapter’s activities as recorded in the 2023 Student Chapter annual report. This is recognition received by only the top third of all the ASCE Student Organizations. The current Chapter officers are Emilio Bautista, President; Sydnee Godier, Vice-Presidents; Andrew Holba, Treasurer; Harpreet...

Dr. Rohan Benjankar and Dr. Jim Zhou received SIUE ECFA funding for hosting the 29^th Mid-American Environmental Engineering Conference (MAEEC) in Fall 2024 at SIUE, where students and faculties from multiple universities in Illinois and Missouri will present their research findings to fellow students, faculty members, and environmental professionals.   This conference also will be partly sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)’s Environmental & Water Resources...

The EWRI Communications Council has featured one of its distinguished members, Dr. Jianpeng (Jim) Zhou, P.E., BCEE, F.EWRI, Chair of EWRI Technical Coordination Executive Committee (Tech ExCom) in a “member spotlight” in it’s the CURRENTS newsletter (winter 2024 issue).  To read more please click this link.

The Graduate School’s Research Grants for Research Doctoral Students program awarded a competitive grant to Civil Engineering PhD candidate Hamid Rostami for Experimental-scale Fault Rupture Test on Buried Pipeline Reinforced with Segmental Protective Shield. More detail can be found at feature SIUE Research and Creative Activities .

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...