C.E.E. LECTURER SOFIA GAVRIDOU AWARDED FELLOWSHIP TO WORK WITH ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY IN THESSALONIKI, GREECE
Mar 2, 2020
C.E.E. Lecturer Sofia Gavridou Awarded Los Angeles, March 2020 – Dr Sofia Gavridou from the Civil Engineering Department at UCLA was awarded a fellowship by the Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program (GDFP) to travel to Greece to work with Aristotle University of...
C.E.E. Alum Chelsea Covate ’11 named one of the Outstanding Women in Construction & Design
Feb 7, 2020
Congratulations to UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering alumna Chelsea Covate ’11, Project Manager, W.E. O’Neil, who was named one of the Outstanding Women in Construction & Design by the LA Business Journal. She has been named one of the Los...
C.E.E. Prof. Gaurav Sant and his Carbon Capture team featured in L.A. Times
Jan 17, 2020
UCLA Civil Engineering Professor Gaurav Sant and his Carbon Capture team are featured in the L.A. Times. The UCLA team, including project scientists Iman Mehdipour and Gabe Falzone, is one of 10 vying for the NRG COSIA Carbon XPrize, an international competition to...
C.E.E. Professor Eric Hoek appointed as the new Faculty Director of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge
Dec 10, 2019
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Civil & Environmental Engineering Professor Eric Hoek as the new Faculty Director of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, the UCLA-wide initiative to make Los Angeles the first sustainable megacity by 2050. In his work...
C.E.E. PhD Student Desheng Yao wins 1st Place Poster Award
Oct 21, 2019
Congratulations to Desheng Yao, a Ph.D. student from Prof. Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng’s group (Additive Manufacturing and Metamaterial Laboratory) in Civil Engineering & Environmental Department at UCLA, who won the 1st Place Prize in the Annual Material Advantage...Events Calendar
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Jan 28, 2020
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On July 4th and 5th, 2019, two earthquakes (magnitudes 6.4 and 7.1, respectively) occurred with their epicenters on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWSCL) in Ridgecrest, California. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest immediately engaged the Reid Middleton engineering team to perform detailed building safety
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Feb 11, 2020
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State of the art performance‐based earthquake engineering (PBEE) procedures such as FEMA P‐58 generally treat buildings as “islands,” with respect to modeling regional impacts and post‐earthquake recovery. Some research, and the REDi resilience framework, provide additional in‐sights regarding regional impacts.
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Feb 18, 2020
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This presentation synthesizes the lessons learned from a full-scale shaking table test of a 5-story base-isolated building carried out at Japan’s Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EDefense). The building was tested with two different isolation systems.
Feb 25, 2020
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
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.