Sara Beck finished her undergraduate degrees at CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ in 2003, double majoring in aerospace engineering sciences and studio arts. After an impressive first job at NASA, she returned to the College of Engineering and Applied Science and earned her PhD in environmental engineering under Professor Karl Linden in 2015.
Join the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering career and internship fair on September 25th, 2019, from 10:00am-3:00pm at the Folsom Field Club Level (East Side of Stadium, 5th Floor, Elevator near Gate 11).
The Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department is welcoming two new faculty members. Read on to see why we’re so excited about these talented new hires
As the fall semester starts at the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ, the school’s civil engineering senior students may be eyeballing one of the last classes of their undergraduate career: their capstone design project.
Professor Joseph Ryan’s Oil and Gas Contamination of Jackson County Waters project is one of 33 faculty-led projects selected to receive the CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ Outreach Award for 2019-20. The Outreach Awards were created 20 years ago to fund university research, teaching and creative work that has a direct impact on public needs.
Professor Srubar’s research got featured on 9 News. Srubar's goal is to create a living hybrid building material that exhibits both structural and biological function. The possibilities for his work are endless and especially interesting in extreme environments and military applications. Bricks could self-heal after natural disasters or enemy fire, or act as alarms by changing color when there are toxins in the air.
"This is not a problem that’s going away," emphasized Paul Chinowsky, a civil engineer at the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ. "The impacts are not something that is 10 years away," he added. "It's something that’s happening right now."
ShanghaiRanking Consultancy’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects has taken notice of the quality of CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ’s programs, ranking environmental science and engineering 26th overall and water resources 15th overall in its 2019 report.
CEAE Professor Keith Porter, a nationally renowned earthquake engineer and research professor at the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ, said the minimal damage from the last two earthquakes shouldn't be celebrated as a “victory lap.â€