Category: research
SoCEE Researchers Advance Energy Resilience Research
SoCEE Contributors Emmanouil Anagnostou Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Director, Institute of Environment and Energy Shah Saki Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Engineering As extreme weather events grow more frequent and intense, they increasingly occur in combination, creating compounding stresses on the nation’s power grid. New research from UConn’s Outage Prediction Modeling (OPM) team shows that these […]
Incoming PhD Student Ziqi Guo Awarded Impact Scholars Fellowship to Advance Climate Research
Positive environmental change requires both passion and science—a philosophy that drives Ziqi Guo, an incoming Ph.D. student in UConn’s Environmental Engineering program. Guo has been named an Impact Scholars Fellow, a prestigious award granted to incoming doctoral students who demonstrate academic excellence, leadership potential, and a commitment to creating positive societal change. Guo’s research focuses […]
CEE Student Nominated for Prestigious ASEE Award
Leana Santos, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in structural engineering at the University of Connecticut, has been nominated for the Best Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Paper Award by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Her paper, which focuses on a redesigned Civil and Environmental Engineering course centered on “Sustainable Transportation,” will be presented at the […]
CEE Research Team in Irish news
December 7, 2022 Professors Kay Wille and Marisa Chrysochoou joined a team of international experts from Canada, Switzerland and Norway, to assist with an emerging crisis in Ireland. Thousands of homeowners are affected by crumbling concrete that contains the reactive mineral pyrrhotite, an issue that also affects many towns in Northeastern Connecticut. The following […]
DOT, UConn study of pedestrian safety in CT focuses on crossing signals at intersections
October 10, 2022 In an effort to reduce the number of pedestrians hit by cars, a new research project conducted by the state Department of Transportation and the University of Connecticut is studying the type of crossing signals at some intersections. In the study, side street crossing signals were switched to concurrent signals, which allow […]
Engineering Faculty Garner NSF CAREER Awards
Two engineering faculty members were selected to receive the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2006: assistant professor of Computer Science & Engineering Ion Mandoiu and assistant professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering Jeong-Ho Kim. Dr. Mandoiu was awarded a five-year $554,500 National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) award for […]
