Research Project on Seismic Risk of Single-Family Homes Awarded by SEAONC
The research project “Quantifying the Performance of Retrofit of Cripple Walls and Sill Anchorage in Single-Family Wood-Frame Buildings” received an Award of Merit in the Research Category from the 2021 Structural Engineers Association of Northern California...
C&EE Professor Gaurav Sant Testifies before U.S. Senate on Carbon Management
Professor Gaurav Sant joined an expert witness panel on Earth Day to testify in front of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on carbon utilization and management. Read the full article: Civil Engineering Professor Testifies before U.S. Senate on...
UCLA CarbonBuilt Team, Led by Professor Gaurav Sant, Wins $7.5 Million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
The UCLA CarbonBuilt Team, led by Professor Gaurav Sant, has become the first university team to win the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition grand prize. Read the full article: Team led by UCLA professor wins $7.5 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
Wyoming Public Radio Episode Features C&EE’s Iman Mehdipour
Wyoming Public Radio recently published an episode and article about technology developed at UCLA called CO2Concrete, which uses flue gas from power plants to make cement. Iman Mehdipour, UCLA project scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering...
C&EE Professor Xiaoyu “Rayne” Zheng Receives NSF CAREER Award
C&EE's Professor Xiaoyu “Rayne” Zheng has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members in the early stages of their teaching and research careers. Read about the award and Professor Zheng's research: UCLA...
C&EE Professor Henry Burton Wins 2021 UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives Award
UCLA will host two of 15 MRPI projects, with civil and environmental engineering professor Henry Burton being the lead principal investigator on California Informatics for Equitable Disaster Response and Recovery. Professor Burton will lead a project to develop better...
UCLA Research Team Proposes Strategy to Reduce Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere
A UCLA team has proposed a concept called single-step carbon sequestration and storage, or sCS^2, in a paper published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. It involves extracting carbon dioxide from seawater, which would enable seawater to absorb more...
Engineering Faculty Part of UCLA Team that Wins Nearly $1 Million to Tackle Rising Heat in Los Angeles
The Heat Resilient L.A. project consists of UCLA faculty members, including UCLA Samueli School of Engineering professors. The team has received a $956,000 award in the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Sandpit competition. Read the full article: Engineering Faculty Part...
CEE PhD Student Nicholas Johnson wins Battelle Paper Competition
Congratulations to Nicholas Johnson, a Ph.D. student from Professor Shaily Mahendra’s group, who is one of two winners of the 2021 Battelle Combined Chlorinated and Bioremediation Conference Student Paper Competition with his paper entitled “Improved Adsorbent...