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...
As environmental conditions increase the frequency and severity of wildfires and populations move into areas prone to wildfires, social and economic losses escalate exponentially. These wildfire-prone environments are known as wildland urban interfaces.
This presentation outlines key aspects of the City of Los Angeles’ Sustainability Plan as it relates to managing the City’s wastewater, stormwater and solid waste infrastructure. Better known as Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Green New Deal, many of these goals transform our way of thinking as civil engineers.
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