Civil engineering

Lessons from Hurricane Ida

09/21/21 Berkeley News — Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, associate professor of civil engineering and co-leader of an NSF-funded geotechnical reconnaissance team that traveled to Louisiana, shares her observations about the impact of Hurricane Ida

NSF awards $12.75M to renew natural hazards simulation center

09/20/21 — The four-year grant to the SimCenter supports research to understand and quantify the effects of natural hazards on buildings, lifelines and communities.

New study shows how air pollution varies block by block

09/07/21 — Researchers used Google Street View cars to show that levels of air pollution vary not only by region, such as between urban and rural areas, but also by city street

Five new hires in the Climate Equity and Environmental Justice cluster

New faculty cluster to focus on climate change, environmental justice

09/02/21 — CNR: Five assistant professors, including civil and environmental engineering's Maya Carrasquillo, will bring their disparate perspectives to research on battling the “climate gap”

Stock photo of light shining through a window revealing smoke

How much wildfire smoke is infiltrating our homes?

09/01/21 — Berkeley News: Environmental engineers used crowdsourced data to measure indoor air quality during California’s wildfires.

A driving force behind mixed-autonomy traffic

08/26/21 — Amazon Science: Alexandre Bayen's research, combining machine learning with big data, looks at how coordinated automation could improve traffic flow, boost efficiency and slash emissions

NIST staff members examine pieces of concrete removed from the debris pile

Berkeley-affiliated experts lead probe of Florida condo collapse

08/26/21 — National Institute of Standards and Technology investigation leaders include CEE alumni Judith Mitrani-Reiser and Glenn Bell and professor Jack Moehle

Modeled simulation of Florida condo collapse

Mosalam provides key analysis of Surfside condo collapse

08/18/21 — Civil engineering professor Khalid Mosalam used 3-D modeling and simulations to assess the tragic collapse of a high-rise Florida condominium for a Washington Post investigation.

Search and rescue personnel work on the debris pile at the Champlain Towers South collapse site.

Engineers piece together Champlain Towers probable collapse sequence

06/29/21 Engineering News-Record — Structural engineering professor Jack P. Moehle joins other experts in assessing what happened in the deadly Florida collapse

Having faith in your journey, despite the turmoil

05/13/21 — Civil engineer and CalNerd Jose Magana, uprooted from his life in El Salvador, overcame arduous life experiences to graduate from Berkeley

A newborn infant receives supplemental warming while getting skin-to-skin contact with the mother

Infant-warming device proven safe, effective

04/29/21 Berkeley Lab — Technology developed by Ashok Gadgil's team shows a big drop in infant mortality in Rwanda hospitals

Video frame showing children on seesaw amid differing levels of air pollution

New studies of deadly air pollutant document environmental inequality

04/28/21 Washington Post — “The deck is stacked against people of color,” says civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Joshua Apte

Berkeley engineers win Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Awards

04/27/21 — Nine engineering teaching groups were honored for innovations in remote instruction

Researchers install distributed fiber optic sensing at a London underground station

Coming to light

04/26/21 — Professor Kenichi Soga’s advanced sensor technology could change the way we monitor infrastructure, agriculture and other complex systems.

Civil and environmental engineering professor Marta Gonzalez on Portrero Hill in San Francisco.

Q+A on the future of our cities

04/26/21 — Professor Marta González discusses how the pandemic and climate change are affecting urban areas.

Transportation engineer Marty Wachs passes away

04/15/21 — Professor emeritus led Institute of Transportation Studies at both UCLA and Berkeley; he was 79

Using AI to eliminate traffic jams

03/13/21 Fortune — ITS Director Alex Bayen explains how autonomous vehicles can help traffic flow more smoothly.

Leslie Robertson, who engineered World Trade Center, dies at 92

02/16/21 New York Times — Berkeley civil engineering alum (B.S.'52) designed structural systems of several notable skyscrapers around the world

Exploded view of N95 mask, and assembled prototype modeled by undergrad researcher Jason Duckering

Anti-COVID mask breaks the mold

12/10/20 LBL — Scientists from Berkeley Engineering and Berkeley Lab have designed a rechargeable N95 mask with a custom fit

Patents for Humanity honors Berkeley-designed infant warmer

11/05/20 — An infant-warming device developed by civil and environmental engineering professor Ashok Gadgil and a Berkeley Lab colleague received an honorable mention