civil and environmental engineering
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Influence of Young Scholars Program reverberates through time
As a rising high school senior, assistant professor Matthew Eckelman, spent a summer at Northeastern simulating earthquakes on a shaker table to evaluate the stability of landfill liner systems. Twenty-one years later, he’s come full circle, hosting young scholars in his lab, guiding them toward STEM careers.
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Probing for pollution at Mission 31
When Northeastern assistant professor Loretta Fernandez was a kid, she “wanted to be Jacques Cousteau” (her words, her emphasis). She wanted to live on The Calypso, the boat from which the legendary ocean explorer would set out on his epic underwater journeys. So when the opportunity to take her research to…
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Hey, bacteria are individuals too
Advances in observational technologies show that populations of bacterial cells are as diverse as any other species, but analytical tools have yet to evolve to study this individuality, says associate professor of civil and environmental engineering Ferdi Hellweger.
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3Qs: The current state of climate change science
Auroop Ganguly, an associate professor and extreme weather expert, discusses the newest report on climate change, which found that humans are almost certainly to blame for the global phenomenon.
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The Super Bowl of civil engineering
For many civil engineers, the annual steel bridge competition might as well be the Super Bowl. It’s a big deal — university teams all over the country spend many months, and many late nights, coming up with a bridge design, fabricating the pieces, and building their own personal masterpiece. The bridges are serious, too: they…
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Metallic personalities
Image via Thinkstock. Civil and environmental engineering professor Philip Larese-Casanova has had a life-long love affair with metals. In his work in aquatic environmental chemistry, he looks at how metallic pollutants transform and behave in freshwater systems. “I just had an interest in the metals,” he told me in an interview…
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Design for deconstruction: building with sustainability in mind
Jerry Hajjar, chair and professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has received a new NSF grant to further his research in the area of sustainable building design — which he envisions as an industry of the future.
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The environmental impact of anesthetic gases
Civil and environmental engineering professor Matthew Eckelman delivered the results of an anesthetic-drug life-cycle assessment to the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology last week.
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Redesigning Boston’s North End
Civil engineering students created an innovative solution for limiting the neighborhood’s traffic problems and pedestrian congestion.
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3Qs: Earthquake not surprising, but tough to predict
Professor Jerome Hajjar, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, assesses yesterday’s earthquake and how buildings in older cities, such as Boston, are equipped to resist such events.
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University hosts national civil engineering conference
Engineering Mechanics Institute meeting focuses on Northeastern research strengths, such as infrastructure sustainability
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A concrete example of experiential learning
Civil engineering students whose canoe design literally fell apart last year use their hard-won wisdom to score well in regional competition.