Accomplishments
ElGawady, Darwish granted patent to enhance structure resilience
Dr. Mohamed ElGawady, professor and interim department chair of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, and Dr. Yasser Darwish, a 2021 Ph.D. graduate in civil engineering, have been granted a U.S. patent for an impact protection solution that enhances the resilience of critical structures, mitigating damage from vehicular collisions, extreme forces and accidental impacts.
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Burken leads Engineer’s Day discussion at Missouri Capitol
Dr. Joel Burken, Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Mathes Endowed Chair in civil, architectural and environmental engineering, gave opening remarks and led a panel discussion with freshmen state senators to kick off Engineer’s Day at the Missouri Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 5. The event is coordinated by the Missouri chapters of the American Council of Engineering Companies, American Public Works Association, American Society of Civil Engineers and Missouri Society of Professional Engineers.
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Tewari gives talk on electrochemical technologies for wastewater treatment
Dr. Sanjay Tewari, associate teaching professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, delivered a virtual talk at the Pacific School of Engineering as a part of the Faculty Development Program approved by the All India Council for Technical Education and organized under its Training and Learning Academy.
Read More »Arifuzzaman awarded $175k NSF research grant
Dr. Md Arifuzzaman, assistant professor of computer science, has been awarded a two-year, nearly $175,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop an advanced data transfer system designed to optimize the movement of massive datasets across global high-performance computing networks while balancing efficiency, fairness and minimal disruption to existing computational processes.
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Researcher wins prize for poster presentation at SME conference
Ellen Amoako Afful, a doctoral student in mining engineering, was awarded a $1,000 prize for a research poster that was presented Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, at the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Conference in Tucson, Arizona.
Read More »Kummer College student publishes research on critical mineral perceptions
Sreeja Koppera, a master’s student in information science and technology, co-authored a study titled “Public Perceptions of Mineral Criticality and Preferences for Energy Transition Strategies in the United States” in Communications Earth & Environment.
Read More »Baur contributes to article on This Old House
On This Old House, Dr. Stuart Baur, associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering and assistant chair of the architectural engineering program, contributed to an article with expertise on key areas where people can focus their home energy efficiency improvements.
Read More »Researchers present at NSF’s Computation Symposium
Dr. Weibing Gong, assistant professor of earth sciences and engineering, and Boneng Chen, a doctoral student studying geological engineering, attended the National Science Foundation’s 2025 Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Computational Symposium and delivered a presentation titled “A Framework for Forecasting and Runout Estimation of Regional Co-Seismic Landslides.”
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Bo awarded $750,000 DOE grant focused on hydropower
Dr. Rui Bo, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is developing artificial intelligence and computational methods to help hydropower plant operators manage water and energy resources more efficiently and potentially pass on savings to consumers, with a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). For the two-year project, Bo will collaborate with […]
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