“Later in my career, I want to apply these concepts and take this retrofit methodology and apply it to buildings that are out there now,” says Sina Basereh, a PhD student in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.
A grant, worth over $500,000 awarded to assistant professor Ravi Ranade, will assist in developing superior materials and reviewing the building codes currently used to design protective structures for housing equipment and soldiers.
UB’s Institute of Bridge Engineering (IBE) received multiple contracts from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), this week, as a member of three different teams.
Students from UB and Tongji University shared research, toured UB’s lab facilities and experienced Buffalo during the Geotechnical Graduate Student Forum, last month.
Three alumni from the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering presented research at the Beijing University of Technology in China, last week.
Teng Wu, associate professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering has been appointed to a subcommittee of the American Concrete Institute (ACI).
Michael Constantinou, a Samuel P. Capen Professor of Civil Engineering and SUNY Distinguished Professor, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
“To know the work that you’re doing has a direct impact on industry,” says Faizan UI Haq Mir, a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, “is very fulfilling.”
