Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

CCEE Welcomes Six New Faculty Members
The Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Department welcomed six new faculty members this semester. Read More

November 24, 2021
Construction and Civil Engineering Students Earn Second Place in National Electrical Contractor Challenge
CCEE students in the National Electrical Contractors Association competed in a national competition and earned second place. Read More

November 17, 2021
CCEE’s Laflamme Published in Prestigious Journal for Sensor Improving the Medical Industry
CCEE’s Laflamme Published in Prestigious Journal for Sensor Improving the Medical Industry Read More

November 16, 2021
Contributing to civil engineering education one scholarship at a time
Iowa State University alum Richard Gumtau had a more than five-decade career as a highway engineer which took him all over the country and even other parts of the world. Gumtau’s journey is an aspiring one though it almost ended before it even started because of the academic and financial hurdles he faced his freshman year of college. This would eventually inspire him to support students so they would not need to encounter the hardship he endured. Read More

November 15, 2021
Nicole Martindale: “Getting the Ball Rolling”
A feature on Iowa State civil engineering major Nicole Martindale and her outlook on being a Cyclone Engineer. Read More

November 11, 2021
CCEE’s Shafei’s paper on top downloaded list in structural engineering
A paper by Behrouz Shafei, associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, co-authored by two of his Ph.D. students, Kofi Oppongand and Dikshant Saini, is among the top downloaded articles published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in structural engineering. “Ultrahigh-performance concrete for improving impact resistance of bridge superstructures to overheight collision,” appeared in the Special Collection of ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering on the application of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC). Read More

October 7, 2021
Celebrating 150 Years of Success: CCEE Anniversary Weekend
A brief summary of the CCEE 150th activities. Read More

October 1, 2021
Two with CCEE ties elected to the National Academy of Construction
Two Cyclone Engineers have been elected to the National Academy of Construction 2021 class. Vilas S Mujumdar, professor of practice in civil, construction and environmental engineering, and alumnus Rao Surampalli (’85 PhD civil engr) are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to the field. Read More

September 20, 2021
CCEE’s Alipour and Shafei receive Bridging the Divide grant to address disaster response
Alice Alipour and Behrouz Shafei, both Cerwick Faculty Fellows and associate professors of civil, construction and environmental engineering, are on an interdisciplinary team of Iowa State University researchers selected to receive the 2021 Bridging the Divide seed grant. The $25,000 award will be used to investigate methods of expediting post-disaster safety assessments of structures. Read More

September 14, 2021
Poleacovschi writes in The Conversation: For engineers, asking for help at work is influenced by gender
CCEE's Cristina Poleacovschi has found that, for engineers, asking for help is influenced by gender. Women are more likely to feel knowledge is easy to access and are more likely to ask women colleagues questions. Read More

September 9, 2021
Honoring excellence: 2021 College of Engineering faculty and staff award winners, named faculty positions, and new patents
Recognizing College of Engineering faculty and staff award winners, new named faculty positions, and patents received. Read More

September 1, 2021
New light-controlled nanoprinting for new meta-surfaces
Jaeyoun Kim, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and In-Ho Cho, associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, have received a new $525,000 award from the National Science Foundation to develop single-step, rapidly reconfigurable grayscale nanoprinting by light-controlled nanocapillary effect. Read More

August 26, 2021
Work is a highway: Shauna Hallmark’s road safety research saves lives
Shauna Hallmark is the inaugural holder of the Robert J. and Roxann L. Paulsen Professorship in Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, and director of Iowa State’s Institute for Transportation. But her job title could be just lifesaver. Read More

August 24, 2021
2021 CCEE Hall of Fame and Distinguished Alumni Inductees
As part of Iowa State’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering’s (CCEE) 150-year anniversary celebration, 26 alumni of the CCEE department are being recognized… Read More

July 20, 2021
Women in Cyclone Engineering: Alice Alipour
International Women in Engineering Day is an annual celebration of the outstanding contributions of women engineers. The theme of this year’s Women in Engineering Day… Read More

June 29, 2021