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  • Sadie Brockett: Outstanding senior in construction engineering

    Sadie Brockett is the spring 2022 outstanding senior in construction engineering. Read More

    May 9, 2022

  • Daria Dilparic: Outstanding senior in environmental engineering

    Daria Dilparic is the spring 2022 outstanding senior in environmental engineering. Read More

    May 9, 2022

  • Photo of 8 members of the Cyclone Energy Team
    ‘Cyclone Energy’ Competes in Innovative Design Competition

    This year, student chapters in the United States and Canada are participating in the Electrical Contracting Innovation Challenge (ECIC), a design competition challenging teams to solve problems in new, innovative ways. Read More

    April 27, 2022

  • Headshot of CCEE assistant professor Lu Liu
    Preparing Communities for Climate Change: CCEE’s Lu Liu Receives Grant to Determine Climate Change Vulnerabilities in Rural and Urban Communities

    From small farms to big cities, natural disasters, rising temperatures and other factors of climate change impact everyone. Lu Liu, assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, is using modeling to look into the future on the long-term impacts of climate change for two different ends of the population spectrum: urban and rural communities. Read More

    April 22, 2022

  • Photo of Tollakson speaking at the ribbon cutting ceremony
    CCEE Alum and Hubbell Realty CEO Rick Tollakson Drives New Wellness Center for Easterseals Iowa

    Tollakson, CEO of Hubbell Realty and 1976 Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering alum, just celebrated his extreme build of the ‘Rick Tollakson Wellness Center,’ a building located in the Easterseals Camp Sunnyside to provide crisis stabilization and outpatient therapy to individuals with brain injuries and/or developmental or intellectual disabilities. Read More

    April 13, 2022

  • CCEE Professor Chuck Jahren Leaves a Legacy Behind After 29 Years at ISU

    Charles (Chuck) Jahren, professor in the ISU Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, is retiring this year from the department - but his career and memories here are far from leaving CCEE. Read More

    April 11, 2022

  • CCEE’s Vern Schaefer Retires after 19 years of Teaching, Research and Service

    For Vern Schaefer, ISU Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering professor and ISU alum, leaving Iowa State and the academic engineering world is a huge change, but a chance for reflection on his role in the university's land-grant motto: teaching, research and service. Read More

    April 11, 2022

  • Celebrating Women in CCEE: Sadie Brockett

    Celebrating Women's History Month this March, Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering is highlighting past, present and future women in engineering. Sadie Brockett is a senior in Construction Engineering and the President of the Associated General Contractors of America, Iowa State Chapter. Growing up around construction engineering influenced her initial interest, but her passion and skills have allowed her to flourish in the field and her education. Read More

    March 31, 2022

  • Headshot of Jeffrey in Town Engineering
    CCEE senior Hannah Jeffrey Receives Prestigious Dean’s Student Leadership Award

    One of only three students in the College of Engineering, Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering senior Hannah Jeffrey received the College of Engineering Dean’s Student Leadership Award. This award is known for ‘recognizing outstanding leadership by undergraduate engineering students during their junior or senior years,’ and for students who ‘exhibit exemplary leadership in a broader arena than a single department or student organization.’ Read More

    March 30, 2022

  • Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
    Studying innovations in steel building design

    W. Samuel Easterling, James L. and Katherine S. Melsa Dean of Engineering, and Onur Avci, research assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, are members of a research team investigating modular steel plate floor framing and diaphragm systems in steel building structures. The new project is funded by the Charles Pankow Foundation. Read More

    March 29, 2022

  • CCEE Faculty Inspecting a bridge in Madison County, IA
    Testing Bridge Safety: CCEE’s Brent Phares Designs Framework to Enhance Bridge Load Rating Efficiency

    With over 600,000 bridges in the United States, bridge safety and longevity is critical to safe transportation in America. By mandate, each bridge is evaluated at least every two years through a process called ‘bridge load rating,’ testing things like endurance and deterioration. But when considering the work put in to inspect every single bridge in the U.S. every two years, bridge load rating as we know it is very labor intensive and potentially costly. Read More

    March 28, 2022

  • CCEE Announces 2022 Hall of Fame and Distinguished Alumni Inductees

    This year, four alumni are be inducted into the Hall of Fame, and nine are being inducted as Distinguished Alumni. Read More

    March 24, 2022

  • Celebrating Women in CCEE: Lauren Bockholt

    Celebrating Women's History Month this March, Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering is highlighting past, present and future women in engineering. Lauren Bockholt, a Senior Project Engineer at Ryan Companies, is an Iowa State Alumni graduating with her bachelor's in construction engineering (ConE) in 2017 and her master's in structural engineering in 2018. She has always been structurally minded and has been making architects' visions a reality in the field in her career. Read More

    March 23, 2022

  • Celebrating Women in CCEE: Beena Ajmera

    Celebrating Women’s History Month this March, Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering is highlighting past, present and future women in civil engineering. Beena Ajmera is an assistant professor in CCEE, and has made many monumental contributions to the civil engineering field. Read More

    March 10, 2022

  • CCEE Provides Hands-On Undergraduate Research Opportunities

    For many students, it can be difficult to gain real-world research experience while attending classes at the same time. Because it can be hard to balance learning and research, Director of Graduate Education (DOGE) and professor Omar Smadi in the Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) started a new, hands-on undergraduate research program in the department. This will be the second year of the program, after a year of many positive experiences from students. Read More

    March 7, 2022