December 5, 2017
Last summer, the Department received a $2 million dollar National Science Foundation grant. The grant will allow the first major restructuring of the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering in 50 years and is aimed at creating a model for academic departments around the nation to follow. Eighteen civil engineering faculty members and social scientists developed the project […]
October 10, 2017
Dr. Murray-Tuite joined our civil engineering family this fall. She comes to Clemson from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her areas of interest an expertise are Evacuation Modeling; Transportation Resilience Analysis; Behavior Modeling; Infrastructure Interdependency Modeling and Analysis; Network Analysis and Design; Transportation Systems Analysis; Risk and Security Analysis; […]
October 10, 2017
October 10, 2017 —CNN At least 10 people are dead and more than 20,000 have been evacuated as wildfires burn in California’s wine country and other parts of the state. More than 100 people have been hospitalized for fire-related injuries or health issues, including burns, smoke inhalation and shortness of breath. An estimated 1,500 structures […]
September 5, 2017
Steven B. Tipping November 12, 1947 – August 11, 2017 Steven B. Tipping, a highly respected structural engineer and long time resident of El Cerrito, CA passed away unexpectedly on Friday, August 11, while on a mountain bike ride in Wildcat Canyon near his home. Born in Ithaca, New York on November 12, 1947 to […]
September 5, 2017
Dr. Kalyan Piratla received a National Science Foundation EAGER Grant. NSF’s EAGER was designed specifically for potentially transformative or exploratory research that explores new subjects, different methods, or interdisciplinary approaches, the exact kinds of things one would expect in innovative research. Dr. Piratla recognizes that our critical infrastructures such as water, power, gas, and telecommunications systems […]
