Recent News and Announcements
22 April 2025, 11:55 AM
Members of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s GeoPrediction chapter took home the first place Mohr Circle Trophy at the GeoFrontiers 2025 competition. GeoInstitute advisor and assistant professor Saad Ullah, PhD, PE, said this is the first time the team has won a national competition during his tenure as an advisor. He said the organization has helped students grow an awareness for geotechnical engineering.
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21 April 2025, 2:04 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville sophomore Aman Pai has been appointed to the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Board of Directors. The NCHC is dedicated to supporting honors education throughout universities across the globe. Pai is the only current SIUE representative that has been selected for this honor.
Pai is currently a civil engineering major. He is on track to graduate in May 2027. Pai found SIUE after graduating from Parkway North High School in his hometown of Ma...
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6 March 2025, 12:30 PM
SIUE students won 1st place at the Geo-Prediction competition at GeoFrontiers 2025. As recognition for this accomplishment, SIUE will host the coveted Mohr-Coulomb Trophy for the next year. Pictured below from left to right are Aspy Bronoski Mbani Illo (Pursuing his MSCE), Dr. Saad Ullah (Civil Engineering Faculty), and Brooke Rogers (Pursuing her...
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17 February 2025, 1:27 PM
Aiming to educate and inspire students, the annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day will be on Feb. 22 in the School of Engineering (SOE) building. The event is for students in grades 6-12 eager to learn more about engineering. Students will hear from a keynote speaker, as well as a panel of engineering students.
Presented by Ameren, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (IGE) is scheduled for the final day of SIUE’s Engineering Week. The event is planned by SIUE’s Society of Wo...
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2 December 2024, 3:15 PM
The environmental and water recourses engineering faculty members of the SIUE Civil Engineering Department organized the 2024 Mid-American Environmental Engineering Conference (MAEEC) on October 19 at SIUE. Graduate students and their faculty advisors attended a day-long conference, where students presented their research. The attendees represent...
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4 October 2024, 10:00 AM
SIUE Civil Engineering had multiple recognitions of their faculty, students, alumni and advisory board members at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) St. Louis 2024 Annual Awards Dinner on Friday, September 20, 2024.
Two SIUE students were recognized with scholarships. Andrew Holba (below, left), president of the SIUE ASCE Student...
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7 May 2024, 8:10 AM
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...
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5 May 2024, 8:55 AM
Over the past year, the SIUE Inastitute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter has been actively involved in both on-campus and off-campus outreach activities. The Chapter has invited transportation professionals to campus to share their experiences and insights, broaden our students' understanding of the latest trends and developments...
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11 April 2024, 10:00 AM
Dr. Rohan Benjankar and Dr. Jim Zhou received SIUE ECFA funding for hosting the 29th 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...
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7 February 2024, 12:00 AM
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3 October 2022, 10:47 AM
The SIUE Chi Epsilon student chapter has announced the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam review session schedule for Fall 2022. You will find the schedule and other details...
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3 November 2021, 12:00 AM
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...
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31 October 2021, 12:00 AM
David. J. Sherrill, PLS, Land Surveying Program Coordinator and Instructor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, presented at the 64th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors at Osage Beach, Missouri in October 2021. The Association has over 800 members from Missouri and surrounding States....
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8 October 2021, 12:00 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering (SOE) alumnus Stefan Flynn has been recognized as the 2021 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Early Career Geoprofessional of the Year....
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28 September 2021, 12:00 AM
The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) has awarded two $5,000 Fellowship Grants to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering (SOE) students. Mr. Hamid Rostami is a student in SIUE’s Cooperative Program in Engineering Science, working under the guidance of Abdolreza Osouli, PhD, in the Department of Civil Engineering. His...
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30 August 2021, 12:00 AM
Ishwor Ghimire from the SIUE Department of Civil Engineering won the 2021 Dr. Nylen W. Edwards Memorial Transportation Research Paper Contest for creating a detailed no-notice evacuation plan for the SIUE road network....
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5 November 2020, 12:00 AM
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,...
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22 October 2020, 12:00 AM
Civil Engineering doctoral candidate Pourya Kargar has been awarded a Fellowship Grant by the Geosynthetic Institute for his research proposal “Investigating Seismic Response of Geocell Reinforced Retaining Walls with Low Plasticity Backfills Using Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis.” More information about Mr. Kargar and and this...
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21 October 2020, 9:00 PM
Prof. Brad Cross, professor of structural engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, has been named Fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers. More information about Dr. Cross and this honor can be found here.
Congratulations Dr....
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20 October 2020, 3:11 PM
The Department of Civil Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is pleased to announce we are again hosting this regional conference in close collaboration with five other midwest universities and the Environmental and Water Resources Institute Saint Louis Chapter.
October 24, 2020 (Saturday), 8:40am-5:30pm
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24 October 2019, 12:00 AM
We wish to congratulate Civil Engineering Graduate students Pourya Kargar Ghomesheh, Hamid Rostami, and Ravali Vennu on their recent awards.
Pourya Kargar Ghomesheh was the recipient of the Ohio Valley Chapter Thomas A. Buzek Scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year. This scholarship includes an award of $3,000 as well as registration, travel,...
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9 October 2019, 12:00 AM
Last month, the First Lego League (FLL) Robotics Team at St. John Neumann School had an opportunity to spend an afternoon with Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Department of Civil Engineering (CE). More information...
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19 September 2019, 12:00 AM
We wish to congratulate Jace McGuire, Civil Engineering Structural Master's student, who has been awarded the SEI-St. Louis Chapter Scholarship. The St. Louis Chapter of SEI provides this competitive scholarship to a graduate student who is pursuing a Master’s degree in Structural or Civil Engineering with a structural emphasis...
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6 September 2019, 12:00 AM
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. ...
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19 August 2019, 12:00 AM
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...
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22 May 2019, 12:00 AM
CE Professor Rohan Benjankar is working to understand the effects of salt in local waterways may have on the ecosystem. See the full article...
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5 March 2019, 12:00 AM
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...
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14 November 2018, 12:00 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville graduate assistant Pourya Kargar has been awarded the 2018 GeoConfluence Research Scholarship. The St. Louis Chapter of the Geo-Institute of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) uses this scholarship to provide support for outstanding practical research in the field of geotechnical/geoenvironmental...
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19 October 2018, 12:00 AM
The St. Louis Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) presented its annual Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement to Siavash Zamiran, PhD, adjunct professor of civil engineering in the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of...
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26 September 2018, 12:00 AM
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....
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29 August 2018, 12:00 AM
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...
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6 July 2018, 12:00 AM
Civil Engineering undergraduate student Ryan Gueldener was recently awarded national and regional scholarships from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Gueldener is currently a senior in the Civil Engineering program and serves as the president of the ASCE student chapter. He currently works as a summer intern at Oates Associates, in...
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5 July 2018, 12:00 AM
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5 July 2018, 12:00 AM
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,...
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