Civil Engineering

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.