Civil Engineering

NSF Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (RED)

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 […]

Celebrating National Engineering Week with National ASCE President-Elect

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 […]

Advisory Board Presented Hard Hats

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 […]

Diving Into Research

Growing up, Garrison Stevens always had an interest in engineering, and when she began looking at colleges, she knew she wanted to find a school with a strong track record in engineering research. Another consideration important to Garrison was having an opportunity to swim competitively at a Division I school. Clemson University allowed Garrison the […]

CE Undergrad Interns In Iraq

Editor’s note: William Escoe, now a senior civil engineering major, completed a ten-week internship in Iraq with an upstream oil company. He spent ten weeks in the city of Erbil, which is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. William tells about his experience in his own words. This particular summer was a very interesting time to be in the […]

PhD Student Wins ASEE ERM Diversity Paper Award

Ph.D Student Freddy Page was part of a team of authors that won the best paper award at the 2015 American Society of Engineering Education National Conference(ASEE). The paper A Series of Singular Testimonies: A New Way to Explore Unearned Advantages and Unearned Disadvantages focuses on innovating Educational Research and Methods (ERM) for understanding the social factors affecting the […]