Research News

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), or Shanghai Ranking places UB’s civil engineering program fourth in the U.S. and 12^th internationally. 

Seyed Omid Sajedi, a civil engineering PhD candidate, earned first place in the Engineering Mechanics Institute's Structural Health Monitoring and Control Committee annual paper competition. 

The Engineering Mechanics Institute Dynamics committee is one of the largest in the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the committee awarded civil engineering graduate student
Shaopeng Li second place in its annual student competition. 

The Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering earned the 2020 Walter Lefevre Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in recognition of its “outstanding program promoting licensure, ethics and professionalism.”

Despite no national or regional competitions this year, UB’s American Society of Civil Engineers (UB ASCE) found success in a number of accolades from the national association. Club leadership will remember this year for a different kind of accomplishment.

Darrell Kaminski, a UB alumnus and assistant professor of practice in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering will join the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) technical working group (TWG) to help advance the administration’s Every Day Counts Five initiative.

The U.S. News and World report released its annual rankings for 2021, and the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering ranked 33 among civil engineering programs in the United States, improving three spots over its ranking for the previous year.

UBIT is partnering with the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering to ensure there is minimal disruption to technology services during construction of One World Café.