The Fall 2016 Civil and Environmental Engineering department newsletter is now available! Read here: https://www.cee.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/cee/2016-Fall-Newsletter.pdf
Meng Wang, Ph.D. Candidate in Assoc. Prof. Shaily Mahendra’s group, was recently awarded the 2016 Second Place MWH/AEESP Master’s Thesis Awards for his work on “Peroxidase Enzymes Packaged in Vaults as an Innovative Bioremediation Technology”. The...
Alexandra Polasko started at UCLA in Fall 2015 as a Ph.D student in Environmental Engineering under faculty advisor Dr. Shaily Mahendra. Recently Alexandra won the New England Biolabs Passion in Science 2016 award for the Environmental Stewardship category. The...
The chair of the UCLA civil and environmental engineering department is leading a U.S. team traveling to Italy this weekend to work with Italian scientists on research into the destructive earthquakes that hit in August. Jonathan P. Stewart, professor in the UCLA...
Abstract: In an ideal world, an engineer’s involvement in a structure would end after construction is finished. But the reality is that many structures are [...]
ABSTRACT Integrating water management activities, from the headwaters to groundwater, can help water managers to enhance their water supply portfolio and support multiple benefits. The [...]
ABSTRACT Global water resources are stressed by rising global temperatures, reduced precipitation in arid regions, and growing demand for water. Reclaimed wastewater is being increasingly [...]
ABSTRACT Hospitals systems face three critical issues during post-earthquake emergency responses: (1) damage to hospitals and supporting infrastructure disrupts critical hospital functions; (2) damage to [...]
ABSTRACT “Mass timber” refers to large dimension timber products utilizing either solid lumber or engineered laminated panels fabricated with small dimensional lumber. There are many [...]
ABSTRACT Quantifying the anticipated community performance after an earthquake is an important part of planning for and developing community resilience. Widespread access restrictions due to [...]
Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate students and faculty are formally invited to attend the Final Defense Exam Performance-Based Analytics-Driven Seismic Design of Steel Moment Frame [...]