![]() Professor Krishna Reddy received a $77,150 supplement grant to his National Science Foundation (NSF) project entitled "Modeling Coupled Dynamic Processes in Landfills: Holistic Long-Tern Performance Management to Improve Sustainability." In September, Reddy was been awarded a three-year $280,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a model to transform dry-tomb landfills into efficient waste treatment systems. The award amount with this amendment totals $356,431 and ends August 31, 2018. Read more at Reddy Grant. |
![]() CME Assistant Professor Sheng-Wei Chi has been awarded a new $149,302 grant entitled "Meshfree Modeling of Munitions Penetration in Soils" from the Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP). Associate Professor Craig Foster is co-PI on the grant, which runs from Feb. 26, 2016 to Feb. 26, 2017. Learn more at Chi Grant. |
![]() Assistant Professor Didem Ozevin received the $500,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her project entitled “CAREER: Engineered Spatially Periodic Structure Design Integrated with Damage Detection Philosophy.” This project is from June 1, 2016 through May 31, 2021. Read more. |
![]() Assistant Professor Sybil Derrible received the $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his project entitled “CAREER: Understanding the Fundamental Principles Driving Household Energy and Resource Consumption for Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Communities.” This project is from August 15, 2016 through July 31, 2021. Read more. |
![]() Lives were changed on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, as UIC’s Civil Engineering Professional Advisory Council met with CME’s undergraduate students for the Scholarship Reception and Awards Dinner at UIC. Through the generosity of donors and partners, CME awarded scholarships to 39 students. The support helps UIC in our mission to continue to provide access to excellence and success for our students. Board members added warmth to the introductions as they detailed the scholarship requirements and the interests and accomplishments of the donors. At the event, students received a certificate, and, in many cases, they were able to meet the donor of their scholarship or a corporate representative as they networked during dinner and after the scholarships were awarded. More pictures of scholarship donors and winners are online at CEPAC Scholarship. |
![]() In this issue: Message from the Interim Department Head—Dr. Karl Rockne, Faculty Highlights, CEPAC Scholarship Reception and Awards Dinner, Wetlands Serves as classroom and Lab, Freshman Snapshot, Freshman Succeeding, Landing Scholarships, Students Win EPA Award and Present at WEFTEC 2015. Read more. |
![]() UIC Professor Krishna Reddy, in the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, is designing landfills that clean themselves. Read more. |
![]() UIC Distinguished Professor Farhad Ansari was interviewed by ABC 7 News about the wind effects on high rise buildings during a recent High Wind Warning in Chicago. Watch the story here. |
![]() Congratulations to Dr. Farhad Ansari, of the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, on being named a UIC Distinguished Professor. Dr. Ansari was recommended by a review panel of UIC Distinguished Professors, and the prestigious designation was bestowed upon him by the University Board of Trustees for his outstanding contributions to research and leadership. |
![]() In April, a group of UIC students won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Campus RainWorks Challenge, which is a national competition the EPA holds for university student groups to design green storm water infrastructure on their campus. Now, the UIC team is bringing the project to McCormick Place in Chicago for one of the largest water quality conferences in the world. Read more. |
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![]() Congratulations to Associate Professor Jane Lin on receiving a new three-year collaborative NSF grant entitled “Smart CROwdsourced Urban Delivery (CROUD) System.” The project will build on collaboration between a CROUD-based technology firm, Zipments, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Northwestern University. The total funding for the project is $1,000,000, with $320,000 coming to UIC over three years. Abstract The thesis of the CROUD is the ability, enabled by recent advances in communication and ubiquitous mobile computing, to match highly fragmented transport capacities with vastly diverse demand for urban deliveries, temporally, spatially and in real-time. The project will build on collaboration between a CROUD-based technology firm, Zipments, and two research universities, Northwestern University (NU) and University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), to develop intelligence necessary to integrate the CROUD technology into a human-centered smart urban delivery service system. The proposed partnership will assemble a team that consists of Zipments’ technical group (including its CEO and co-founders) and five researchers of diverse expertise. The envisioned smart CROUD system will integrate four subsystems that encapsulate, respectively, pricing/matching mechanisms, consumer/courier management strategies, collaborative delivery/routing algorithms and real-time data collection and analysis tools. Prototypes of the new system will be implemented and evaluated based on the CROUD platform currently operated by Zipments. Read more |
![]() Congratulations to Professor Krishna Reddy for his new three year grant from the National Science Foundation entitled “Modeling Coupled Dynamic Processes in Landfills: Holistic Long-Term Performance Management to Improve Sustainability.” The grant is for $279,281, and this is Professor Reddy’s second active NSF grant in this area. Abstract This project will develop a new coupled mathematical tool to enable the design and operation of stable, effective and sustainable engineered landfills, thereby minimizing long-term risks to the surrounding environment and public. The tool will enable practitioners and regulators to predict the highly complex landfill stabilization period, and allow for the planning of beneficial reuse of landfill space, such as recreational facilities, by accurately accounting for a differential settlement and stabilization period. With controlled, predictable, rapid municipal solid waste decomposition and a reduced stabilization period: (a) non-degradable municipal solid waste may be mined and processed, reducing the amount of landfill mass encapsulated within a landfill; (b) post-closure monitoring can be shortened and associated expenditures considerably reduced; and (c) concerns about the long-term performance of geosynthetic liners and related environmental risks can be addressed. This research involves multiple disciplines, including geoenvironmental engineering, sustainable engineering, biology, and computational mechanics. Read more |
![]() CME’s Interim Department Head Karl Rockne and environmental chemist An Li are featured in Chemical and Engineering News for his contributions to the Great Lakes Sediment Surveillance Program. Read more » |
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Elevating Excellence at CME's 2014 CEPAC Awards. Read more » |
Meet Students Who Participated in the Inaugural College of Engineering's Guaranteed Paid Internship Program » |
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![]() Professor Mohsen Issa offers the best solution to our pothole problem in this Daily Herald article. |
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ASME 2013 congress in San Diego California There will be a special symposium honoring professor Alexander Chudnovsky during the ASME 2013 congress. To submit your abstract go to the ASME Congress 2013 web site http://www.asmeconferences.org/Congress2013/, then to the Track Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids and open #10-24 Symposium on Fracture and Lifetime of Materials. If the website is asking you for a member ID number that means you have participated in an ASME event before. If you do not have this number handy please contact Customer Care at customercare@asme.org to obtain your member ID. Deadline extended to February 14. |
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![]() Consider joining UIC’s student chapter of SURF – the Sustainable Remediation Forum! Click here for complete info. |
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![]() Consider joining UIC’s student chapter of SURF – the Sustainable Remediation Forum! Click here for complete info. |
![]() Dr. Harry Saunders, Managing Director, Decision processes, Inc. Monday, October 29, 2012, 3:30pm-5:00pm. Click here for complete info. |
To begin the new Fall2012 semester we have three seminars given by reputed international geotechnical engineering experts during our first week of classes; August 28th, 29th and 30th. The seminars are open to public. |
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ASCE Student Chapter for The University of Illinois at Chicago received 1st place overall at the ASCE Great Lakes Student Conference. |
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Professor Khodadoust has been selected by his peers to receive a 2010-2011 Teaching Recognition award. His teaching is an example of the high quality of instruction that characterizes the best of UIC. |
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UIC Institute for Environmental Science and Policy 2011-2012 Predoctoral Fellowship Competition Each fellowship carries with it a $15,000 award. Applications are due Monday May 2, 2011, 3PM. |
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CME Alumnus, Georgette Hlepas, Ph.D., P.E., featured in Engineers Week New Faces of Engineering 2011 |
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Professor Krishna Reddy has been chosen as the recipient of the 2011 Hogentogler Award. |
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