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...

Over the past year, the SIUE Inastitute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter has been actively involved in both on-campus and off-campus outreach activities. The Chapter has invited transportation professionals to campus to share their experiences and insights, broaden our students' understanding of the latest trends and developments in the transportation field. In an effort to promote diversity, the Chapter made a effort to invite more female and minority transportation professiona...

Dr. Rohan Benjankar and Dr. Jim Zhou received SIUE ECFA funding for hosting the 29^th Mid-American Environmental Engineering Conference (MAEEC) in Fall 2024 at SIUE, where students and faculties from multiple universities in Illinois and Missouri will present their research findings to fellow students, faculty members, and environmental professionals.   This conference also will be partly sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)’s Environmental & Water Resources...

The EWRI Communications Council has featured one of its distinguished members, Dr. Jianpeng (Jim) Zhou, P.E., BCEE, F.EWRI, Chair of EWRI Technical Coordination Executive Committee (Tech ExCom) in a “member spotlight” in it’s the CURRENTS newsletter (winter 2024 issue).  To read more please click this link.

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 ...

Faculty and staff in the Department of Civil Engineering have been awarded a $462K grant by Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) for a 4-year research project that will analyze scour estimates at bridge sites in Illinois to produce findings that will lead to improvements related to bridge design and maintenance. Abdolreza Osouli, PhD, PE, Associate Professor, will serve as the project's  Primary Investigator (PI) with Brent Vaughn, Laboratory Specialist, will also support the p...

Prof. Brad Cross, professor of structural engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, has been named Fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers.  More information about Dr. Cross and this honor can be found here.

Congratulations Dr. Cross!

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...