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...

California Energy Commission awards $3.5 million research grant on seismic risks to natural gas infrastructure to UCLA

Dec 10, 2019

December 9, 2019 The California Energy Commission has just awarded $3.5 million research contract to UCLA to study seismic risk to the state’s natural gas infrastructure. The three-year research project will quantify risk to natural gas storage structures and...