Archives: Monthly Archives: November 2016
Alumni News Series III
Ada Liz Gabancho-Soto (B.S. Environmental Engineering, ‘14) recently joined the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps (VYCC) as a conservation crew leader. VYCC is a statewide nonprofit organization serving youth ages 16-24. This summer, Gabancho-Soto is leading local teens restoring historical trails at the Gettysburg Quarry in the Dorset Town Forest. Prior to joining VYCC, she was […]
Keeping Connecticut’s Bridges Strong
By Josh Garvey The Connecticut Department of Transportation has received a national award for a new bridge repair method, developed at UConn, that could significantly decrease the time, lane closures, and cost needed to repair a bridge. The method of repair involves using advanced concrete as a cast over the end of a bridge’s steel […]
Alumni News Series II
Christopher Granatini, P.E. (B.S. Civil Engineering, ’96), a project manager at Tighe & Bond Middletown, CT office, was promoted to Associate within the firm’s Stock Ownership Program. With 19 years of experience serving state, local and private clients, last year Granatini assumed an expanded role as traffic and transportation services lead in Connecticut. He is […]
New Partnership to Bring Innovative Storm Outage Prediction Technology to Utilities
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, today announced an exclusive long-term partnership with the University of Connecticut (UConn) and Eversource Energy to combine the companies’ storm outage prediction technology to create one, more precise and accurate model. UConn’s unique analytics model will be integrated into Schneider’s WeatherSentry Online (WSO) platform, enabling utilities to […]
