Archives: Monthly Archives: January 2020
CEE INCLUDE Team Kicks Off $2M NSF Grant
Four members of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering traveled to Alexandria, VA in November, 2019 to kick off a new department-level initiative focusing on neurodiversity. The initiative is funded through a $2M grant from the National Science Foundation’s Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) program. The project, titled “Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation,” […]
Dr. Ramesh Malla’s Space Structures Research Featured in ASCE’s Civil Engineering Magazine
The research of Dr. Ramesh Malla has been featured in the January 2020 issue of ASCE’s Civil Engineering Magazine. Dr. Malla is leading UConn’s multidisciplinary team of researchers as part of the Resilient Extra Terrestrial Habitats institute (RETHi), a project led by Purdue University and in conjunction with researchers at Harvard University and the University […]
Autonomous Vehicle Testing Facility May Come to Storrs
Associate Research Professor and Executive Director of the Connecticut Transportation Institute (CTI), Eric Jackson, hopes to bring autonomous vehicle testing to Storrs. Read more about the proposed facility in the Hartford Business Journal.
WiSFiRE Women in STEM Expo – January 31, 2020
Get ready to be inspired by CEE’s women in STEM! Register for WisFire at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wisfire-women-in-stem-frontiers-in-research-expo-registration-86460077419Â
Novel UHPC Bridge Repair Method Highlighted in Civil Engineering Magazine
The work of Dr. Arash Zaghi and his research team, including Dr. Alexandra Hain, has been featured in the December 2019 issue of ASCE’s Civil Engineering Magazine. The article highlights the team’s implementation of a novel method using ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) to repair a corroded steel girder bridge in the state of Connecticut. The implementation […]
