March 27, 2018
Walter P Moore Announces Dallas Leadership Transitions International engineering firm Walter P Moore announces that David A. Platten, P.E., Managing Director of the firm’s Dallas office, will retire on March 30, 2018. Vicki Ford, P.E., S.E. will assume the managing directorship and office leadership in his stead. Principal Vicki Ford, a structural engineer at Walter P […]
February 23, 2018
Meet a Tiger: Tommi Jones http://newsstand.clemson.edu/meet-a-tiger-tommi-jones/ This Tiger’s grandfather was pivotal in her decision to study and graduate with an engineering degree from Clemson. Today, she collaborates with architects, contractors and inspectors to ensure a seamless process from concept to construction to completion of the university’s Capital Projects. While her role typically involves building structures, […]
February 20, 2018
Lowry Hall has received a lot of attention the last few years. Most classrooms have been updated and while new windows and the first floor renovations were underway many faculty, staff and summer classes were displaced for a couple of summers. All classrooms in Lowry received new technology upgrades last summer with new projectors, control […]
May 4, 2016
Ryan Eckenrode, a 2004 Civil Engineering Alumnus won a 2015 ASCE Edmond Freidman Young Engineer Award. The award is given annually by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) each year to five people from across the nation. The awards are bestowed to an engineer under the age of 35 for professional achievement in the service of the profession, […]
May 4, 2016
Hurricanes blow the roofs off buildings and earthquakes shake them to piles of rubble, but nature’s wrath pales in comparison to the biggest threat that structures face. Nothing topples them quite like people, said Brandon Ross, an assistant professor of civil engineering at Clemson University. The buildings that took so much time, effort and […]
May 4, 2016
CLEMSON — James R. Martin has been named the first holder of the Robert Benmosche Endowed Professorship in Risk Engineering and Systems Analytics as part of Clemson University’s collaboration with American International Group Inc. (AIG). The professorship is named for the late AIG president and chief executive officer, who was among the first to recognize the […]
November 5, 2015
Aaron Gordon just returned from an internship in Haiti with Clemson Engineers for Developing Counties (CEDC). He worked as a project manager for all projects funded by the Episcopal Diocese of Upstate South Carolina (EDUSC). These projects were Civil Engineering focused and included everything from water systems to school renovations to solar panel installations. Before […]
November 5, 2015
Dr. Kalyan Piratla along with two co-authors received the 2015 Arthur M. Wellington Prize for the paper, “Quantification of Sustainability Index for Underground Utility Infrastructure Projects,” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.” The selection committee particularly noted that the article is easily understandable and provides practitioners and planners/owners with a method to make sustainability an important […]
March 19, 2015
Growing numbers of Chinese students have been seeking degrees in the United States, but a deal that Clemson University has inked with China’s top civil engineering program will also send U.S. students in the other direction. Clemson and Tongji universities will exchange civil engineering doctoral students as part of a global partnership that underscores the […]
March 10, 2015
Dr. Nigel Kaye has been awarded the Telford Medal for the best paper published by the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) in the United Kingdom. The Institute of Civil Engineers is equivalent to ASCE in the United States. Each year, ICE Publishing acknowledges the best work published in ICE journals at the ICE Publishing Awards ceremony, […]
