Seyedomid Sajedi, a PhD candidate specializing in autonomous structural inspections and health monitoring, won the $8,000 O.H. Ammann Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
A Metal.com story about the 65th anniversary of the Metal Building Manufacturers Association mentioned that the organization sponsored its first major research program in 1966 for a study on tapered structural members by UB researcher George Lee, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.
The American Institute of Steel Construction reports on the results of its Student Steel Bridge Competition, which involved more than 1,000 student engineers at 102 colleges and universities nationwide. UB student engineers took home 1st place honors in the Lightness category, 3rd place in the Structural Efficiency category.
In a story about how Bill Gates’ company, TerraPower, is building next generation nuclear power technologies, CNBC quotes Andrew Whittaker, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.
“Scaling with models is always an issue,” says Michael Murphy, a PhD structural engineering student in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, “you can have a larger scale sectional model to get more accurate aerodynamic properties to pair with a virtual model in order to model the global behavior of the structure.”
Civil engineering graduate Juan Aleman (MS ’10, PhD ’14) and aerospace engineering alumnus Martin Diz (PhD ’15) are working together to advance optimization in structural engineering and address the U.S. housing crisis.
Assistant professors Negar Elhami Khorasani and Anthony Tessari will discuss Enhancing the Resilience of Tunnels Subject to Fire Events at Rutgers University's Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT).
Claudia Marin (MS ’03, PhD ’07), a civil and environmental engineering professor at Howard University will lead a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project to develop an intelligent surveillance platform for Damage Detection and Localization of Civil Infrastructure.
