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UCLA Samueli
Civil and Environmental Engineering
5731 Boelter Hall
Ertugrul Taciroglu
Department Chair
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Graduates
Our Latest Research News
C&EE Professor Scott Brandenberg Featured in Article on Levee Risk Assessment in the Delta
C&EE Professor Scott Brandenberg is featured in Robin Meadow's piece, Feature: First Field-based Assessment of Levee Risk in the Delta. In the article, Professor Brandenberg offers knowledge about the levee that surrounds Bacon Island in the central Sacramento-San...
Led by C&EE Professor Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, UCLA Researchers Awarded NSF Grant
A team of engineers, led by C&EE Professor Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to design architected materials that are fine-tuned with dynamic behaviors. Read the full article: UCLA Researchers Awarded NSF...
C&EE PhD Student Studies Water Quality in Belize
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ileana Callejas ’18, M.S. ’19 kept busy studying how the sudden drop in tourism was affecting the waters off the coast of Belize. Callejas is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of...
Department Announcements
Media Mention: ABC News, The Asociated Press, Yahoo, Daily Herald
C&EE Professors Jonathan Stewart and Eric Hoek responded to media inquiries about the oil spill in Orange County earlier this week. Their statements earned coverage in The Associated Press, which also got picked up by ABC, Yahoo, The Daily Herald, The Charlotte...
Alumna Shares Journey to Becoming Highest-Ranking Latina Engineer at LADWP
UCLA alumnus Evelyn Cortez-Davis is a licensed professional engineer in California and recognized as a board-certified environmental engineer by the American Association of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. She is also the first Latina and second woman to be...
Professor Henry Burton on Committee to Improve Resilience of Transportation Systems
For the past two years, CEE Professor Henry Burton has served as a member of a 12-person committee appointed by the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) to develop a consensus study report on "Investing in Transportation Resilience". The...
Alumni News
UCLA Civil Engineering Alumnus Featured in Leading Geophysical Journal on Groundwater Storage Recovery
Sarfaraz Alam, Ph.D. '21 was recently featured in the Water Resources Research journal published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Entitled “Estimating Post-Drought Groundwater Storage Recovery in California’s Central Valley,” the piece highlighted a new study...
UCLA CEE Alumni Awarded by ASCE San Francisco Section
Two UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering alumni were recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) San Francisco Section for their outstanding contributions to the community. Maxwell Armenta (BS '17) received the Outstanding Civil Engineer in...
In Memoriam: Raymond Arthur Sholes
IN MEMORIAM RAYMOND ARTHUR SHOLES Raymond A. Sholes passed away peacefully with family by his side on January 17, 2021 at the age of 95. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1948. He was a member of the Engineering honor fraternity Chi...