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Department Faculty, Students, and Alumni convene at the 2019 Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference

Representatives from the Department faculty, students, Alumni convened during the annual Alumni Breakfast at the 2019 Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference, between Oct 29-30 at Columbus, OH.    Ms. Kelly Hendricks, Director of Alumni Relation, introduced new initiatives by the Case Alumni Association to engage Alumni.  Dr. Bill Yu, Interim Chair, provided an overview update on the progresses at the Department, including various recent awards received by the Department faculty and students, new activities and organizations initialized by students under guidance by faculty.   Noteworthily, with the generous supports by alumni and friends, the Department will build a new Concrete Laboratory, which is projected to start construction in middle February 2020 and finish by early Summer 2020.

Civil Engineering Students Survey University Farm

Full story can be found on the article in Observer, the Magazine by CWRU Students.  Students in Professor Katie P. Wheaton’s class, ECIV 160 Surveying and Computer Graphics, traded the classroom for the field when they surveyed at the University Farm this November. A request from the Case Amateur Radio club prompted the class to embark on two site visits. The purpose was to help the club find optimal locations to place antennas during their annual Field Day Competition, taking place next June.  After surveying tree and building locations as requested by the club, the students processed the measured data in AutoCAD and generated a report for their “client” with suggested antennae locations and cost estimates.

Case Professors and Students Attended ACI Convention, the First as a Department

                        Dr. Christian Carloni and Professor Katie Wheaton, along with 6 undergraduate students from the Department, visited the Duke Energy Convention Center on October 18-21,2 019 for this year’s American Concrete Institute (ACI) Convention in Cincinnati, OH.   Dr. Carloni is currently Chair of the joint ACI-ASCE 446 Committee and attended ACI convention regularly, but this was Professor Wheaton and the students’ first appearance at a ACI Convention.

Case Professor and Students Received Exellent Journal Paper Award

Prof. Xiong (Bill) Yu, Interim Chair, was recently informed by the journal editor's office that a paper by his research group has received the 10th Anniversary Excellent Paper Award by the journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.   Three of Dr. Yu's former Ph.D. students were co-authors on this paper.  Quan Gao  is currently an engineer at Pile Dynamics Inc, a company founded by Case Alumni and is a world leading company in QA/QC for pile foundation.  Junliang Tao becomes an associate professor at Arizona State University, who received the prestigious CAREER award from  the National Science Foundation in 2018, one of the most prestigious recognition for junior faculty. Jianying Hu becomes an associate professor at Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

Case Chapter of Woman Builders' Council Had A Successful Inaugural Seminar Series

The Case chapter of Woman Builder's Council (WBC) had a very successful inaugural seminar series on Tuesday Oct 29, 2019.   23 people attended the seminar series, which included a live video conference with three woman leaders presented in NYC to Bingham 240, CWRU. 

Students were actively engaged with questions and answers with the presenters.  The Chapter is founded by two female students Sarah Carlson & Maria Tompkins, together with faculty advisor Katie P. Wheaton, P.E., S.E..  A brochure for the Case Chapter of WBC was distributed to attendees to formally launch the chapter.

Dr. Saada receives award from Case Alumni Association

Prof. Adel (Tony) Saada receied the Meritorious Service Award from the Case Alumni Association.  The award is in cognize Prof. Saada's leadership and service to the Case communities.  The award presentation was conducted during the upcoming homecoming weekend during 134th Annual All-Classes Celebration: Innovation ShowCASE and Awards Presentation,  Friday Oct 11, 2019 at Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[box].   Department faculty, staff, students and alumni joined the event to celebrate Prof. Saada's achievements. 

The Department of Civil Engineering is Expected to Get a New Name Soon

A motion to change the Department name to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has been approved by the Case School of Engineering faculty, CSE Executive Committee and CSE Dean during its deliberation in September 2019.    The motion is moving for further discussion and approval by the University Faculty Senate and for final approval by the University President.  The Department currently houses a few areas of concentrations under Civil Engineering:  Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Construction Management, Engineering Mechanics, pre-architecture program.  

The Department Students and Faculty to Host 2019 Woman Builder Council Student Seminar Series on Tuesday Oct 29

2019 Woman Builder Council Student Seminar Series, Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 6:15 p.m. in Bingham Room 240.

Featured Speakers:

Register today via email to Chapter Founders, Maria Tompkins at mct56@case.edu or Sarah Carlson at smc185@case.edu.

 

Prof. Heo Co-lead ASCE SEI Multihazard Mitigation Committee to Win the SEI Future Fund

The Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)’s Multihazard Mitigation (MHM) Committee, which Dr. YeongAe Heo, Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering has served as the Vice Chair, of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) wins the 2020 SEI Future Fund. For the past few years, the SEI MHM Committee has made great contributions to disaster resilience studies of structures subjected to multiple natural and man-made hazards. With this support, the SEI MHM Committee will initiate a special project to bridge the gap between research and practice for structural engineers to implement the state-of-the-art research in multi-hazard structural design into their structural design, retrofit, and maintenance projects.

Prof. Carloni has been reappointed Chair of ACI 446 Committee (Fracture Mechanics of Concrete)

The American Concrete Institute (ACI) has appointed Dr. Christian Carloni as Chair of joint ACI-ASCE 446 Committee. The mission of the Committee is to develop and report information on the application of fracture mechanics to concrete structures.  Dr. Carloni has served as Chair of ACI 446 for 3 years (2016-2019) and has been reappointed for another three-year term.

ACI 446 Committee has organized numerous symposia during the ACI Conventions. Currently, members of the Committee are working on a report that provides guidance on fracture testing of concrete. The Committee is working in collaboration with ASTM to translate the report into a standard.