News/Events

Bernard Amadei, Ph.D., professor of civil engineering at CU-Boulder, recently released a new book, “Engineering for Sustainable Human Development: A Guide to Successful Small Scale Community Projects,” through the ASCE Press. In his book, Amadei addresses the role of engineering in human development and poverty reduction. He introduces a framework...

Professor Keith Molenaar (left) answers questions on his paper during a conference Q&A session. Professor Keith Molenaar and CU-Boulder alumnus Behzad Esmaeili (PhDCivEngr’12) have won the Jaume Blasco Award for Innovation at the 18 th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering in Alcañiz, Spain. The award recognizes the second-place...

The Construction Industry Institute (CII) recently honored Paul Goodrum, PhD, professor of civil engineering at CU-Boulder, the prestigious 2014 Distinguished Professor Award. The award, which was created in 2009, works to recognize full-time or adjunct faculty of graduate or undergraduate programs who incorporate published CII research into their courses over...

The ongoing dry conditions due to lower summer (Jun to Sep) monsoon rainfall in India has left scientists and academics alike to discover which weather patterns and conditions work to suppress the annual monsoon and result in rainfall shortages in the nation. This season, the current rainfall deficit in India...

Professor John McCartney and his previous PhD student Majid Ghayoomi, now an assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire, received the 2014 International Award for Best Journal Paper by an Early Career Researcher in Unsaturated Soil Mechanics in the Category of “Application” from the International Society for Soil Mechanics...

Beginning spring 2013, the CEAE Department at CU-Boulder began offering students the opportunity to earn both a Master of Environmental Engineering degree and a Professional Certificate in Water Engineering and Management (WE&M). This certificate prepares graduate students and young water professionals for a career in a rapidly changing profession and...

The civil engineering program at CU-Boulder encompasses a number of educational objectives that place great value on the interests of the students. One such objective is to help graduates prepare for and find employment in the industry upon graduation. To accomplish this objective, many professors within the program include hands-on...

Each year, a number of truly outstanding and intelligent students graduate from the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) Department; and this year was no different. On May 8, 282 students graduated with their bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate degree from the department. Among this group of hard working intellectuals was...

Two CU-Boulder graduate students took home 2013 Outstanding Student Paper Awards in hydrology at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting in December 2013. Held annually in San Francisco, the AGU Fall Meeting is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, attracting more than 22,000 Earth and space scientists, educators,...

The department is pleased to announce that the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Excellence Award for Graduate Fellowship has been renamed in honor of Andrew Gelston Graham. The fellowship provides support to outstanding MS and PhD students in the department, including tuition and stipends. Andrew was an outstanding student in...