Civil Engineering

The Graduate School’s Research Grants for Research Doctoral Students program awarded a competitive grant to Civil Engineering PhD candidate Hamid Rostami for Experimental-scale Fault Rupture Test on Buried Pipeline Reinforced with Segmental Protective Shield. More detail can be found at feature SIUE Research and Creative Activities .

David. J. Sherrill, PLS, Land Surveying Program Coordinator and Instructor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, presented at the 64th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors at Osage Beach, Missouri in October 2021. The Association has over 800 members from Missouri and surrounding States.   Sherrill PLS/Instructor at SIUE, presented in two sessions, “Standards of Professional Conduct, State of Illinois”, Section 1270.57 ILCS, and...

Four SIUE Civil Engineering graduate students and three faculty members attended the 2021 Mid-America Environmental Engineering Conference in St. Louis, Missouri this September. Master’s student Pooyan Nikeghbali, advised by Dr. Rohan Benjankar, presented work from his thesis research.

SIUE graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Shaker Nairat said, “Attending the MAEEC conference gave me the opportunity to learn about and explore new and advanced research studies in the environmenta...

The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) has awarded two $5,000 Fellowship Grants to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering (SOE) students. Mr. Hamid Rostami is a student in SIUE’s Cooperative Program in Engineering Science, working under the guidance of Abdolreza Osouli, PhD, in the Department of Civil Engineering. His fellowship will support research titled, “Evaluation of Geosynthetic Reinforcement Techniques for Buried Petroleum Pipelines Subjected to Earthquake ...