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Engineering students work to provide clean water to residents of the Dominican Republic
When you wake up each morning, it’s likely you don’t think twice about how you’re going to acquire safe drinking water for the day. Unfortunately, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, that’s not the case for 2 billion people around the world who lack easy access to such a…
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Civil and environmental engineering "Snack and Chat"
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Case School of Engineering will host a “Snack and Chat” for undergraduates Friday, March 24, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in Bingham Building, Room 240. Current and prospective undergraduate students pursuing majors or minors in civil and…
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National Science Foundation awards prestigious early-career grant to CWRU chemical engineer
Christine Duval investigating novel methods for separating elements for wind turbines, electric vehicles, smart phones, nuclear power APP scientist Christine Duval will investigate novel and more environmentally safe methods to separate so-called “rare-earth elements”…
Student team wins 2023 Ohio Contractors Association Student Estimating Competition
In only their second year of participating in the Ohio Contractors Association Student Estimating Competition, the team from APP’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering took home the top prize. Teams from 12 universities—totaling 72 students—participated.…
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Engineering students take home first place in estimating competition
A student estimating team from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering won first place in the 2023 Student Estimating Competition organized by the Ohio Contractors Association. The team is composed of Dan Cohen, Randy Radiarta, Hailey Degeorge, Shalev Grunschlag, Steven Leung and…
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Engineering’s Ya-Ting T. Liao named finalist for mentorship award
The National Postdoctoral Association selected Ya-Ting T. Liao, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, as a finalist for its Gallagher Mentor Award. This award recognizes those who: Advocate for postdoctoral scholars; Exhibit outstanding communication…
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Coming Home
Directly across the hall was the office of one of his favorite professors, Joe Prahl, and he’s teaching Machine Dynamics in the same classroom where he learned it from former Dean Tom Kicher, whom he can see like it was yesterday. “Sometimes I get emotional,” Rashidi said. “I feel that I have come…
Department Chair Xiong (Bill) Yu named Civil Engineer of the Year by Cleveland ASCE
Last month, Cleveland’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) section named Xiong (Bill) Yu, chair of Case Western Reserve’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, its Civil Engineer of the Year for his contributions to education, research, service and leadership. Yu’s nominators…
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“Best Presentation” honors go to Professor Christian Carloni
Associate Professor Christian Carloni’s talk, “Pull-out Tests of FRP Bars Embedded in Concrete: A New Insight,” received a best presentation award at the second annual workshop organized by the Transportation Infrastructure Durability and Life Extension Center—a National University Transportation…
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Paper by Professor Huichun (Judy) Zhang earns “best paper” honors
Late last year, Environmental Science and Technology, a premier journal for environmental research, awarded Huichun (Judy) Zhang, the Frank H. Neff Professor in Civil Engineering, a best paper honor for her work, “Machine Learning: New Ideas and Tools in Environmental Science and Engineering.”…