Prof. Jenny Jay receives Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Research
Jenny Jay, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was one of six professors to receive the Chancellor’s Award for community-engaged research.
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CEE Welcomes Two Alumni as New Industry Advisory Board Members
UCLA’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department welcomes two alumni as new members to its Industry Advisory Board: Nolan Lenahan of DLR Group and Paul Liu of LADWP. We look forward to their expert guidance and support for UCLA CEE IAB. Nolan Lenahan is a Senior...
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Trimble Technology Day at UCLA
Trimble and UCLA’s Samueli School of Engineering are hosting on campus a series of tech talks and hands-on time with laser scanners, robotic total stations, virtual, augmented and mixed reality with Microsoft HoloLens. Learn more about IoT and monitoring with Telog,...
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ASCE at UCLA has many successes at PSWC 2019!
ASCE at UCLA students competed at the Pacific Southwest Conference (PSWC) hosted at Cal Poly SLO in San Luis Obispo, California on April 4 – 6, 2019. UCLA placed second overall out of 18 schools, which is a significant accomplishment for our chapter and projects. Five...
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CEE Alumnus Dr. Peerapong (Ice) Pornwongthong wins Gold Medal and Special Prize for his invention
Congratulations to CEE Alumnus Dr. Peerapong (Ice) Pornwongthong for winning the Gold Medal and Special Prize for his invention of “Plasma Discharge System for Removal of Groundwater Contaminants” at the International Exhibition for Inventions (IEI) and the World...
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CEE Alumnus Dr. Shao-Yuan (Ben) Leu (PhD ’09) promoted to Associate Professor at Hong Kong PolyU
Congratulations to Shao-Yuan (Ben) Leu (PhD ’09) on his promotion to Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Leu obtained his doctorate in wastewater engineering at UCLA Samueli, where he focused on gas-transfer...
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Professor Jay recognized with teaching award
CEE Professor Jennifer Jay has been awarded the 2019 Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching from UCLA Samueli Engineering. Professor Jay incorporates a service-learning component in her classes, and teaches a year-long freshmen course on food as it relates...
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Alumni Kioumars Afshari (Ph.D., ’17) and Christine A. Goulet (Ph.D. ,’08) receive best paper award
The Earthquake Spectra Editorial Board and the EERI Board of Directors have selected the paper “Non-Ergodic Site Response in Seismic Hazard Analysis,” Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 1385-1414, by Jonathan P. Stewart, Kioumars Afshari, and Christine A. Goulet,...
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Paul Lee, CEE ’15, has been recognized by ASCE as one of the new faces of civil engineering for 2019
Recent alumni, Paul Lee, CEE ’15, has been recognized by ASCE as one of the new faces of civil engineering for 2019. “In college, I really wanted to do sustainability. And it was around the time that climate change issues were starting to become a big deal, and people...
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