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In this interview with Shideh Dashti, an associate professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, Dashti shares her thoughts on the recent and devestating floods in Libya and earthquake in Morocco, what engineers can learn from these events and how countries can build resilient cities.

Professor Karl Linden was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the IUVA World Congress, hosted from Sept. 10-13 at the InterContinental Dubai - Festival City hotel in Dubai. "It was one of the sweetest moments of my career," he said.

CU Boulder's Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering continues to gain national recognition for the quality of its undergraduate school education, earning the No. 15 spot in the U.S. News and World Report's Best School rankings for civil engineering and No. 8 for environmental engineering among public institutions for 2024. Architectural engineering is not ranked by U.S. News and World Report.

With the construction of increasingly taller dams, Geotechnical Engineering Assistant Professor Yida Zhang is concerned about the potential effects of soil grain breakage caused by pressure. He recently received a prestigious NSF CAREER award to fund his research on the evolution of grain sizes in dams.

Amir Behzadan is a professor in the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering. He is also a fellow in the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), where the Natural Hazards Center is located. Behzadan completed his BS in civil engineering at Sharif University of Technology in...

Bob Davis joined the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering faculty in January 2023 as a scholar in residence, but he is no stranger to CU Boulder or the department. His CU position is part-time, as Davis also continues in his role as chief lighting research engineer at Pacific...

Ben Stanford is joining the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering as a scholar in residence in the civil engineering area, bringing practical consulting experience to the courses he teaches. Stanford earned his BS degree in chemistry from Warren Wilson College in 1997 and his PhD in environmental sciences...

Steven Ayer is an associate professor in the University of Colorado Boulder’s Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering . Prior to joining CU Boulder, Ayer was a faculty member at Arizona State University in the Del E. Webb School of Construction. Before beginning his faculty career at ASU, he...

The Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering welcomed four new faculty members for 2023-2024. Meet the team and see why we're so excited about these talented individuals: