Civil Engineering

SIUE Civil Engineering (environmental engineering) graduate student Shaker Nairat and two graduate students (Yanran Xu and Zixuan Wang) from Washington University in St. Louis (environmental engineering) won a 2^nd place award at the 2022 Intelligent Water Systems Student Research Competition, held on April 25 at the Illinois Wastewater Professionals Conference. The research project was titled, “Machine Learning and Deep Learning Assisted Phosphorus Concentration Prediction and Anomaly Alar...

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...