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...

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...

As a part of the UCLA-wide “Rising to the Challenge” initiative, UCLA Samueli is welcoming transportation equity expert Tierra Bills as an assistant professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering department! Bills will also hold a faculty appointment in the...

Congratulations to Alexandra Polasko, who was recognized by the UCLA Academic Senate with the university’s highest honor for excellence in teaching. Alexandra Polasko, a 2021 Ph.D. graduate in civil engineering, received a 2020-21 Distinguished Teaching Assistant...

The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering is proud to welcome three new faculty members as a part of the school’s Mentor Professor Program, a new initiative designed to hire faculty with a demonstrated record of, or who show exceptional promise for, mentorship of...

ASCE at UCLA competed in the 2021 National Concrete Canoe Competition held June 25-27 and hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Each year, project undertakers design, build, and race canoes out of lightweight concrete emphasizing strength and...

Many of the UCLA C&EE faculty members have been featured or mentioned in articles and news broadcasts since the Miami condo collapse last Thursday. Professor John Wallace was mentioned in two USA Today articles: Inspection reports for collapsed Miami-area condo...

Congratulations to UCLA alumnus Ho-Shing Chau '17, MS '18, who received the Outstanding Younger Civil Engineer award at the Region 9 (State of California) Awards Ceremony. Ho-Shing is a structural project engineer at Brown and Caldwell and designs facilities and...

C&EE's Professor Gaurav Sant and UCLA C&EE alumnus Dr. Mark Hanna were honored with awards at the ASCE MLAB ceremony on Thursday, June 17. They were recognized for their great contributions to the Civil Engineering Community and Los Angeles. Professor Sant...