Dean Rashid Bashir and The Grainger College of Engineering announce the Investiture of… Paolo Gardoni as the Alfredo H. Ang Family Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Public Ceremony at 4:00 PM 1310 Yeh Center, Newmark Laboratory 205 N. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois Reception immediately following Yeh Center Atrium

Dean Rashid Bashir and The Grainger College of Engineering announce the Investiture of… Arif Masud as the John and Eileen Blumenschein Professor in CEE Monday, May 9, 2022 Public Ceremony at 4:00 PM National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Auditorium 1205 West Clark Street, Urbana, Illinois Reception immediately following NCSA Lobby  

Dean Rashid Bashir and The Grainger College of Engineering announce the Investiture of… C. Armando Duarte as the Nathan M. Newmark Distinguished Professor in CEE Wednesday, April 27, 2022 Public Ceremony at 4:00 PM 1310 Newmark Laboratory (Yeh Center) 205 N. Mathews Avenue | Urbana, Illinois Reception immediately following Yeh Center Atrium

Assistant professor Jinhui Yan has been selected as a 2022-23 Levenick Teaching Sustainability Fellow by the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE). Yan joins seven other faculty members as part of this year’s cohort, which hails from across the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus — and beyond. One of the fellows represents a collaboration with the Zhejiang University […]

CEE professor Billie F. Spencer has been elected as a foreign member of the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ). He is the first faculty member from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and one of only five civil engineering professors in the United States to achieve this honor. Founded in 1987, the EAJ comprises “leading experts […]

By McCall Macomber, Illinois Center for Transportation Illinois will receive $1.4 billion to repair its bridges in President Biden’s five-year, $27 billion Bridge Formula Program, which is designed to replace, repair and rehabilitate bridges across the nation. The program will supplement Gov. JB Pritzker’s $45 billion “Rebuild Illinois,” an ongoing six-year plan to improve the […]

Article from CEE website. The deadly tornado outbreak that struck the central and southern United States in December 2021 killed 93 people and caused an estimated $3.9 billion in damages across eight states. In size and severity, the storms were unusual – but, experts say, getting less so. A new, multi-disciplinary research center announced this […]

Article from CEE website. A new study challenges the conventional approach to designing soft robotics and a class of materials called metamaterials by utilizing the power of computer algorithms. Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Technical University of Denmark can now build multimaterial structures without dependence on human intuition or trial-and-error to produce […]

CEE assistant professor Franklin T. Lombardo has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. Lombardo will work to advance thunderstorm risk assessment in a structural and wind engineering context. CAREER awards, administered under the Faculty Early Career Development Program, are the NSF’s most prestigious form of support and recognition for junior faculty who […]

Spring Structural Engineering Qualifying Exam Announcement Spring 2022 The Structural Engineering QE is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Feb 19th, 2022. Candidates must notify by email Prof. Elbanna (elbanna2@illinois.edu) and Ms. Miller (marissam@illinois.edu) of their intent to take the QE no later than Wednesday, Feb 9th, 2021.