Southern Illinois University Edwardsville along with Heartland Conservancy, local, state and federal partners, are working to create a long-term watershed plan to address flooding issues and improve drainage and water quality at the Prairie Du Pont Creek Watershed in St. Clair County. The area has suffered extreme flooding several times in the past decade, leading to repeated structural damage to homes and businesses, water quality concerns, and overwhelming sanitary sewer function, among ot...
Recent News and Announcements
SIUE Team Works to Create Long-Term Watershed Plan to Reduce Flooding Hazards
19 July 2023, 8:30 AM
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SIUE’s Department of Civil Engineering Hosts Local MATHCOUNTS Competition
7 February 2023, 9:00 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Department of Civil Engineering hosted the local MATHCOUNTS competition on Saturday, Feb. 4 on the Edwardsville campus. This year’s competition featured 60 students from seven local middle schools.
“The Department of Civil Engineering has hosted the local MATHCOUNTS competition for the last three decades,” said Susan Morgan, PhD, PE, associate dean for research and graduate studies and professor in the Department of Civil ...
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SIUE Civil Engineering Program Celebrates Golden Anniversary
17 October 2022, 9:10 AM
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering’s (SOE) Department of Civil Engineering will celebrate 50 years of civil engineering excellence with a special golden anniversary celebration.
Faculty, industry partners and alumni are invited to join for a celebratory event being held from 11:30 a.m.- 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 at the SIUE Morris University Center’s Meridian Ballroom.
“The Civil Engineering Department celebrates 50 years of educating the desi...
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FE Review Sessions 2022
3 October 2022, 10:47 AM
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SIUE’s Tolava Earns National Concrete Association Scholarship
23 August 2022, 2:25 PM
Consistency, determination and striving to achieve are some of the attributes that make one a serial winner. Such is the story of Cristian Rodrigo Tolava Torrico, a second-year graduate student in the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering (SOE) Department of Civil Engineering.
Tolava has been awarded the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Foundation Scholarship’s W. Gene Corley Memorial Scholarship. Named after a recognized industry leader, the scholarship is aw...
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SOE’s Fries Named Education Professional of the Year
9 August 2022, 8:30 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering’s Ryan Fries, PhD, professor and chair of civil engineering, has received the Patrick T. McCoy Education Professional of the Year award.
The award, presented by the Missouri Valley District Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), recognizes an educator who has made an outstanding contribution to the study of transportation and helps students advance in their education and as professionals.
“I am honored to be rec...
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Research Grants Presented to SIUE Doctoral Students
3 August 2022, 3:00 PM
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School has selected the recipients of the 2022 Research Grants for Research Doctoral Students (RGRDS) awards. The RGRDS program awards grants of up to $1,000 on a competitive basis to support research and projects initiated and conducted by students of SIUE’s EdD, DNP , and cooperative PhD programs to enhance their academic progress.
Although faculty advisors oversee the research, the purpose of the program is to support the rese...
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SIUE’s Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Nairat Wins 2nd Place at Student Research Competition
22 July 2022, 4:00 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering (SOE) environmental engineering graduate student Shaker Nairat and his team won second place at the 2022 Intelligent Water Systems (IWS) Student Research Competition held in April at the Illinois Wastewater Professionals Conference (IWPC) in Springfield.
With a fellowship from the highly selective Fulbright Foreign Student Program, Nairat came to SIUE in Fall 2021 to pursue a master’s in civil engineering with a specializat...
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SIUE Continues Commencement Ceremonies for Spring 2022 Graduates
7 May 2022, 4:35 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville continued its commencement exercises Saturday, May 7 with ceremonies honoring graduates from the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and the School of Engineering (SOE). Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Denise Cobb, PhD, led the conferral of degrees.
At the 9 a.m. ceremony, CAS student speaker Josie Pauley, who earned a bachelor’s in applied communication studies, encouraged graduates to live in the now and make the most of every...
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SIUE Alumna-Founded Company Named “Medium Firm of the Year”
4 March 2022, 4:20 PM
Kaskaskia Engineering Group (KEG), founded by SIUE alumna Geri Boyer, was named “Medium Firm of the Year” at the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Illinois 2022 Engineering Excellence Awards. Boyer earned a bachelor’s in civil engineering from the SIUE School of Engineering in 1991.
KEG was honored for its contributions to the success and growth of the association. The Telegraph highlighted the recognition in an article posted Tuesday, March 1.
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Experimental-Scale Fault Rupture Test on Buried Pipeline Reinforced with Segmental Protective Shield
3 November 2021, 12:00 AM
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SIUE’s David Sherrill Supports Region’s Surveyors
31 October 2021, 12:00 AM
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U.S. Corps of Engineers Recognizes SIUE Alumnus
8 October 2021, 12:00 AM
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Two Civil Engineering Graduate Students Receive Fellowships
28 September 2021, 12:00 AM
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SIUE Alumnus Ghimire Triumphs in Transportation Research Contest
30 August 2021, 12:00 AM
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Civil Engineering Team Awarded $462K from IDOT to Improve Scour Estimate Analyses for Bridge Stability
5 November 2020, 12:00 AM
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CE Doctoral Candidate Kargar Receives Geosynthetic Institute Fellowship Grant
22 October 2020, 12:00 AM
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SIUE Civil Engineering Prof. Cross Named ASCE Fellow
21 October 2020, 9:00 PM
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2020 Annual Mid-America Environmental Engineering Conference
20 October 2020, 3:11 PM
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CE Graduate Students Acknowledged with Multiple Awards
24 October 2019, 12:00 AM
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Local Elementary Robotics Team Visits SIUE School of Engineering
9 October 2019, 12:00 AM
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CE Graduate Student Jace McGuire awarded SEI-St. Louis Chapter Scholarship
19 September 2019, 12:00 AM
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SIUE Ranked 1st in the US in Community and Public Service
6 September 2019, 12:00 AM
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SIUE Alumna Receives “Innovative Transportation Award”
19 August 2019, 12:00 AM
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Civil Engineering Researchers Measure Salt Concentration in Local Bodies of Water Study Impact on Ecosystem
22 May 2019, 12:00 AM
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SIUE ASCE Student Chapter Participates at 2019 SciFest Engineering Expo
5 March 2019, 12:00 AM
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Pourya Kargar Awarded the GeoConfluence Research Scholarship 2018 Award
14 November 2018, 12:00 AM
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CE Department's Siavash Zamiran Receives ASCE 2018 Young Engineer Award
19 October 2018, 12:00 AM
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SIUE Designated a Living Architecture Regional Center of Excellence
26 September 2018, 12:00 AM
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SIUE Alumnus Ed Grady Supports School of Engineering with Major Contribution
29 August 2018, 12:00 AM
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CE Student wins multiple scholarships
6 July 2018, 12:00 AM
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SIUE Alumnus Named Rural County Engineer of the Year
5 July 2018, 12:00 AM
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MiTek Donates Funds to support Timber Design Course
5 July 2018, 12:00 AM
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Vickie LaRose’s naming as Most Influential Business Women
27 June 2018, 11:00 AM
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