Civil Engineering

The SIUE ASCE Student Chapter is the recipient of two prestigious recognition awards: the 2024 Letter of Significant Improvement and the 2024 Letter of Honorable Mention.  These awards are for the Chapter’s activities as recorded in the 2023 Student Chapter annual report. This is recognition received by only the top third of all the ASCE Student Organizations. The current Chapter officers are Emilio Bautista, President; Sydnee Godier, Vice-Presidents; Andrew Holba, Treasurer; Harpreet...

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 .

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 ...

Civil Engineering doctoral candidate Pourya Kargar has been awarded a Fellowship Grant by the Geosynthetic Institute for his research proposal “Investigating Seismic Response of Geocell Reinforced Retaining Walls with Low Plasticity Backfills Using Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis.” More information about Mr. Kargar and and this award can be found here.

Congratulations Mr. Kargar!

October 24, 2020 (Saturday), 8:40am-5:30pm

Register Online by October 16, 2020.

A one-day, virtual conference for Graduate Students in civil and environmental engineering from six universities to share ed...