Civil Engineering

Pipeline to Sustainabilty

Dr. Kalyan Piratla and his PhD student, Mr. Harshit Shukla, co-presented a research paper at the 2019 International Conference on Resource Sustainability (iCRS Cities) held in Adelaide, Australia in July 2019. In this presentation, they shared the methodology and findings of their NSF-funded research work focused on using image classification techniques for automated leakage detection […]

NSF Red —Transforming Curriculum, Culture and Community

The National Science Foundation Revolutionary Engineering Departments (RED) is now in its second year. Over the last year, faculty and staff have collaborated with university personnel as well as industry stakeholders to develop programming and curricula for our undergraduate students. The overarching goal of our (RED) program is to transform the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at […]

Dr. Jesus M. de la Garza Named Chair of the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering

It is my pleasure to announce today that Jesus M. de la Garza will join Clemson University in August as the new chair of the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering. He comes to us from Virginia Tech, where he is the Vecellio Endowed Professor in Construction Engineering and Management. He brings to Clemson a wealth […]

Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility Host 6th Annual University Transportation Center Conference

On October 24 and 25, 2018, the Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility (C2M2) hosted the 6th Annual University Transportation Centers Conference for the Southeastern Region at the Madren Conference Center in Clemson, South Carolina. This gathering of students, faculty, staff, practitioners, and public officials from throughout the  Southeast is vital for discussing ongoing activities conducted […]

New Faculty Join Department

This fall, we welcomed three new faculty to our department. Dr. Nasim Chowdhury received  his PhD from Clemson in 2017 with an emphasis in Water Resources Engineering. He joined the department full time this fall as a Senior Lecturer. During his tenure in Civil, he was a graduate research assistant, a graduate lab instructor, and […]

Civil Engineers Bring Home ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Award

Clemson fans celebrated in March when the men’s basketball team made the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in 21 years. A group of Tigers has made the Sweet Sixteen again, except this time it was in the lab instead of on the basketball court. Brad Putman, left, and Jennifer Ogle were co-principal investigators on […]

The Learning Buildings Research Group – Australia Trip Summer 2018

The Learning Buildings Research Group (LBRG) housed in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University embarked on an amazing opportunity to participate in the SEB-18 (Sustainability in Energy and Buildings) Conference in Gold Coast, Australia, and to visit various universities between the Gold Coast and Sydney during June and July of 2018. It […]

Faculty Commitment to Excellence

CE Faculty continue to excel in their commitment to excellence. Dr. Ashok Mishra received two awards, a National Science Foundation Career Award  a University Research Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award (URSAA), which recognizes Clemson University faculty who have achieved the highest levels of national and international recognition. Faculty selected for URSAAA recognition are lifetime appointees invited […]

Dr. Qiushi Chen is part of a 1.8 Million Research Grant to study Next generation of Biorefinery Process Design

Dr. Qiushi Chen is part of a 1.8 Million Research Grant to study Next generation of biorefinery process design. New research based on a collaboration among Clemson University, Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will develop analytical models to optimize the design of the feeding system. Read more http://newsstand.clemson.edu/next-generation-of-biorefinery-process-design-targeted-in-1-8-million-research-project/

Sruthy Agnisarman—Named Student Member with Honors

Sruthy Agnisarman, a PhD student in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering, was named a Student Member with Honors  of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society at the association’s annual meeting. She joined a select rank of students worldwide to receive the award, the highest student honor awarded by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. […]