Archive of CEE News

2011

• Amy Nagengast Presented with 2011 Love of Learning Award
• Todd Wilson Honored with 40 Under 40 Award
• Professor Hendrickson Inducted into National Academy of Engineering
• IBM Centennial Lecture
• Rizzo Honored with Diamond Award
• Professor Akinci and Co-Authors Receive ISARC Best Paper Award
• CEE Department and EAFIT Create Dual PhD Program
• Peter Adams Receives Fulbright Award
• Craig Maloney Awarded NSF CAREER Grant
• Anna Lenhart, CEE Class of 2011, Named Fulbright Scholar
• Jessica Wilson Awarded First Place in Fresh Ideas Poster Contest
• Mario Berges Receives CETI Award
• Jacobo Bielak Named ASCE Distinguished Member
• Omar De Leon Honored with CMU Graduate Student Service Award
• Jessica Wilson Receives David A. Long Scholarship
• CEE Alumnus Dr. Damian Helbling Receives Top Paper Honors from ES&T
• Environmental Engineering 7th, Civil Engineering 10th in rankings
• Greg Lowry Receives Steven J. Fenves Award for Systems Research
• Burcu Akinci Named ASCE Pittsburgh Section's Professor of the Year
• Chris T. Hendrickson Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
• SMART Scholarship Recipient Whitney Ladzick (CE 2011)
• CEE PhD Students Asli Akcamete, Megan Leitch and Stacey Louie Receive Fellowships
• Professor David Dzombak Receives Honorary Doctorate from St. Vincent College

2010

• Professor Mario Berges Honored for Best Presentation at BuildSys 2010
• CEE PhD Student Saurabh Taneja Receives Best Paper Honors
• CEE Student-Athletes Named to CoSIDA Academic All-District Team
• Professor Mario Berges Receives Distinguished Alumni Award from INTEC
• CEE Alumni Honored at Homecoming 2010
• Professor David Dzombak Presenting Lectures as AEESP Distinguished Lecturer
• CEE Undergraduate Gabriella Briffa Named GAI Scholarship Recipient
• Professor Lucio Soibelman: Advanced Pipeline Systems
• Professor Jeanne VanBriesen:Protecting Our Water Resources
• Weber and Matthews Paper Among Most Accessed on ES&T Website
• Professor David Dzombak Named University Professor
• Professor Peter Adams Studies Impact of Soot Emissions on Global Warming
• Professor Jim Garrett Receives Thomas Lord Professorship of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Professor Lucio Soibelman Receives 2010 ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award
• New York Times Room for Debate: Professor Jeanne VanBriesen on "The Nation's Big Water Repair Bill"
• Environmental Engineering 7th, Civil Engineering 10th in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
• CEE Alumnus Todd Wilson Among ASCE's New Faces of Engineering
• Professor Burcu Akinci Receives Christiano Fellowship and Fenves Award
• Professors Lucio Soibelman and Burcu Akinci: Building Communication
• CEE Undergraduate Erica Spiritos Receives American Bridge Leadership Award
• Professor David Dzombak Named Chair of New National Research Council Committee
• University Professor Jacobo Bielak Elected to National Academy of Engineering
• Professor Greg Lowry Receives Carnegie Science Center Honorable Mention Environmental Award
• Professor David Dzomback Named AEESP Distinguished Lecturer
• CEE Graduate Students Blackhurst, Das and Sun Receive PhD Fellowships
• Professors Burcu Akinci and Lucio Soibelman Receive American Council on Education Award
• Professor Irving Oppenheim Named ASCE Pittsburgh Section's Professor of the Year
• Professor Jim Garrett: A Bridge to Improvement

2009

• CEE Undergraduate Students Design Alternative Use for Hulton Bridge
• Donna Marano Receives Andy Award for University Citizenship
• CEE Graduate Student Ricardo Taborda Receives Prestigious Alumni Award from EAFIT University
• CEE Professors Lucio Soibelman and Scott Matthews Receive Grant to Improve Awareness of Electricity Consumption in  Buildings
• CEE Graduate Student Stacey Louie Named First Recipient of Cohon Fellowship
• Professor Peter Adams Speaks at Gordon Conference
• CEE Undergraduate Jenae Pennie Receives SMART Scholarship
• Environmental Engineering 9th, Civil Engineering 11th in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
• Garrett Elected ASCE Fellow
• Professor Greg Lowry: Promise, Risk and the Environment
• Wayne Balta and Markus Klausner to Receive University Alumni Awards
• Peter Adams' Cosmic Ray Research Featured in Nature
• Jacobo Bielak Named University Professor
• Kaushik Dayal Receives Grant from Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Jeanne VanBriesen Receives Best Paper Honors
• Wayne Balta and Markus Klausner to Receive University Alumni Awards
• Peter Adams' Cosmic Ray Research Featured in Nature
• Jeanne VanBriesen Receives McGraw-Hill/AEESP Outstanding Teaching Award
• Greg Lowry Receives Malcolm Pirnie/AEESP Frontier in Research Award
• CEE Graduate Student Ricardo Taborda Awarded Bertucci Fellowship
• Jeanne VanBriesen:Water Matters
• University President Jared Cohon Named Distinguished Member of ASCE
• Jacobo Bielak Named University Professor
• Kaushik Dayal Receives Grant from Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Jeanne VanBriesen Receives Best Paper Honors
• CEE Undergraduate Dyanna Becker Receives Udall Scholarship
• Greg Lowry Awarded ASCE's Huber Prize
• Chris Weber and Scott Matthews Receive Best Policy Paper Honors from ES&T
• Cliff Davidson Receives Best Paper Award
• Cliff Davidson Selected as Recipient of Ryan Award
• CEE Dept Head Jim Garrett Quoted in BusinessWeek article on Smart Technologies
• CEE Alumna Mary Lou Maher Named Deputy Division Director of the IIS Division of NSF
• Sensor Andrew Project Featured in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Jeanne VanBriesen Named ASCE's Pittsburgh Section Professor of the Year
• Patty Langer Receives CIT Staff Recognition Award
• Cathy Bazan-Arias Elected At-Large Director of ASCE
• CEE Undergraduate David Drochner Honored by College Sports Information Directors of America
• Alumni Michael Ellegood and Richard Creech to receive awards at annual CEE Alumni Dinner
• Scott Matthews and Deanna Matthews Named AT&T Faculty Fellows
• Professor Lowry is Deputy Director of Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology

2008

• Environmental Engineering 10th, Civil Engineering 11th, in new U.S. News and World Report Rankings
• CEE Staff Members Nominated for Andy Awards
• Don Coffelt, Adjunct Faculty Member, Named Director of Facilities Management Services
• Professor Dayal Receives Acta Student Award
• Professor Small Presents New CO2 Research to Australian Scientists
• New Dual Degree Program with METU
• Professor Hendrickson Interviewed by NPR
• Professor Gregory Receives ORAU Award
• Professor Davidson Selected as Fellow of AAAR
• Professor Akinici Receives FIATECH Award
• Professor Cartwright Will Manage New Live Mascot
• CEE Students Win ASCE Awards
• Professor Dzombak Elected to NAE
• Professor Bielak & Students Win EERI Competition
• Engineering Students Win Prestigious Contest
• Alumni Awards Given at CEE Alumni Dinner
• Professor Dzombak Participates in NRC Report
• Professor Bielak and Students Present Simulation Results at SCEC
• KAIST, CEE Launch Dual Degree Program
• Professor Bielak and Colleagues Awarded NSF Grant
• Staff Member Donna Marano Designated Distinguished Faculty of SRA
• Professor Jacobo Bielak Elected as a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Engineering
• Professor Greg Lowry Invited to Give Keynote Addresses
• Graduate Student Saurabh Puri Receives ICES Dowd Fellowship