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.

Northern Tornadoes Project: Systematically identifying, classifying, and examining the impacts of every tornado in Canada Abstract: The Northern Tornadoes Project, founded in 2017, has been identifying and classifying every tornado in Canada since 2019 with the distinct goals of: (i) systematically capturing data in remote and sparsely populated regions, (ii) developing and utilizing the latest […]

Finding materials with optimal fracture properties A new project by CEE professors Oscar Lopez-Pamies and X. Shelly Zhang, funded by a National Science Foundation EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research award, seeks to create a novel computational framework for automatically generating optimal microstructures for materials with improved fracture behaviors. READ MORE

The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Arif Masud, John and Eileen Blumenschein Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as the recipient of the 2022 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Division Award. This award, which includes a medal, a certificate, and an honorarium, will be […]

Professor Billie F. Spencer Jr. has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), in recognition of his distinguished contribution to civil engineering and to the promotion of China-America exchanges and cooperation. READ MORE