Category: Students

Vijay arrived in Clemson as a Masters student in 2007.  His thesis research in Transportation was focused on highway safety. His master’s thesis was titled “Analysis of factors contributing to tree crashes in South Carolina”.  He continued to the PhD program in 2010 and was near completion when he experienced a life–changing crash of his […]

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 […]

Clemson University’s ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) Student Chapter was selected in the fall of 2018 to host the Southern District’s first Student Leadership Summit (SLS) in late February 2019. This event pioneered ITE’s goal of bringing students together to develop leadership qualities as well as set the precedent for other events like this in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Clemson University attended the 2018 NSF Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (RED) Annual Meeting in Alexandria, Virginia organized by the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). The Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University is one of nineteen NSF RED-funded engineering and computer science programs from across the nation. The select group includes programs at Purdue, Georgia […]

National Engineering week was filled with events throughout the week of February 19th – 23rd. Students took ownership of the activities which included building block towers between classes (highest tower in a specified time frame), pie-a professor to support renovations to the student lounge, and a competition trivia night. Friday we were privileged to have […]

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 […]