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This winter, the Oregon State University Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers acquired a new trailer for the OSU Concrete Canoe Team. “Funds for the trailer were acquired ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2020/04/28/donors-and-captains-float-the-boat/

For communities that have been devastated by wildfire, swift access to clean water is a critical first stepto recovery. After the 2018 Camp Fire devastated Paradise, California, Erica Fischer, as...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2020/04/27/fire-and-water-pinpointing-pipeline-contamination-in-burn-areas/

This fall, Rep. Peter DeFazio, chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, invited Dan Cox, CH2M-Hill Professor in Civil Engineering, to present at a hearing before the Subcom...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2019/12/31/dr-cox-goes-to-washington/

Floating offshore wind energy is quickly becoming a viable source of affordable, renewable energy in the U.S., however, offshore wind turbines are susceptible to damage from high winds and waves....

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2019/11/05/doe-funding-wind-in-the-sails-for-offshore-energy-research/

New first-year cohort program works to increase student retention, success “The mission of the first-year cohort program is to strengthen the school community from the first year through gradua...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2019/09/14/constructing-community/

In June, U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio visited Oregon State to learn about recent advances in improving the health of transportation infrastructure, reducing carbon emissions, and enhancing traffic saf...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2019/07/25/researchers-talk-carbon-reduction-with-rep-defazio/

Congratulations to Oregon Stater Awards honorees Kelly Aust (’10 B.S., Construction Engineering Management), Jay Culbertson (’72 B.S., Business Administration and Management), and Tim Sissel ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2019/04/15/awards-recognize-alumni-excellence/

While CCE has made great strides in increasing the number of female faculty members, the school continues its work in encouraging women to pursue degrees in civil and construction engineering. Er...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2019/04/15/new-program-builds-school-community/

We could not do our work without our community behind us. CCE is pleased to welcome new members to the Construction Education Foundation (CEF) and the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) whose particip...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2019/04/15/cce-welcomes-new-advisory-members/

Regional organizations are working together to reduce the frequency and severity of crashes in work zones. In winter, Oregon State hosted the Oregon Work Zone Executive Strategy Session Committee...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2019/04/15/experts-gather-to-improve-work-zone-safety/

Doctoral student Dylan Horne is one of 20 graduate students in the nation to be selected by the Eno Center for Transportation (Eno) to attend the Eno Future Leaders Development Conference in Wash...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2019/03/20/doctoral-student-dylan-horne-one-of-20-nationwide-selected-for-leadership-conference/

Three new faculty members in CCE expand expertise in the school. Bryson Robertson, associate professor of coastal and ocean engineering and director of the Pacific Marine Energy Center, joined Or...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2018/12/14/new-faculty-members-bring-expertise-in-wave-energy-structural-and-coastal-engineering/

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Oregon State hosted a seafloor instrumentation workshop, “Integrating Science Needs with Advanced Seafloor Sensor Engineering to Provide Early Warn...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2018/10/10/experts-gather-to-map-the-future/

Erica Fischer, assistant professor of structural engineering, is working on a project funded by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center to evaluate which types of industrial facilities...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2018/10/10/advancing-seismic-design/

Oregon State University kicked off the new academic year with University Day, an event which reunites campus colleagues, provides informative and fun activities, and recognizes faculty and staff ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2018/09/28/david-hurwitz-recognized-for-teaching-excellence/

CCE students took home top honors at regional competitions and conferences throughout Spring 2018: At the Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting, Ellie Simpson, Hisham Jashami, Zach Ba...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2018/06/22/student-earn-top-honors-in-spring-2018/

Professor Emeritus Hal Pritchett received the AGC Hal Pritchett Distinguished Service Award. The award, which was created by AGC Oregon Columbia Chapter President Brian Gray of Knife River and th...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2018/06/01/faculty-honors/

CCE launched Beavers Build, a new feature that shares recent alumni projects. The Franklin High School project by Skanska USA featured seven CCE alumni and involved a 287,000-square-foot renovati...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2018/05/29/beavers-build-alumni-stories-on-facebook/

Held at Reser Stadium, the 47th annual Contractors Night hosted 400 guests and featured presentations from Ronald Fedrick, chairman and chief executive officer of Nova Group Inc. and chairman of ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2018/04/13/contractors-night-2018/

Earthquake Spectra, a leading journal on geotechnical engineering, recently published an article by Ben Mason, associate professor of geotechnical engineering in Oregon State University’s Colle...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2017/11/02/recent-grad-shares-lessons-learned-world-away/

In September 2017, the School of Civil and Construction Engineering recognized three faculty members for their contributions to students and the greater school. Meghna Babbar-Sebens, associate pr...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2017/10/17/cce-recognizes-faculty-excellence-partnerships-research-teaching/

Congratulations! The Oregon State University student team of Nathan Jones and Alessandra Hossley took first place, earning the Mohr-Circle Award in the 2017 GeoPrediction competition at the annua...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2017/03/22/oregon-state-holds-steady-first-place-international-geotechnical-competition/

Congratulations to transportation engineering graduate students Jason Anderson and Masoud Ghodrat Abadi. The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (Pactrans) formally recognized Anderson ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2017/02/13/graduate-students-take-home-transportation-honors/

The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), of which Oregon State University is a member, was awarded $14.35 million over 5 years from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/12/19/u-s-department-transportation-awards-osu-consortium-partners-14-35-million-improve-regional-transportation/

During October, 22 graduate students in transportation engineering traveled to Washington where they participated in two conferences. On Friday, Oct. 14, they attended the PacTrans Annual Meeting...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/10/26/graduate-students-gain-professional-experience-transportation-conferences/

Merrick Haller, professor of coastal and ocean engineering and associate head of graduate affairs, has been awarded a 5-year, $1.4 million research grant from the Office of Naval Research to inve...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/10/17/office-naval-research-awards-oregon-state-professor-1-4-million-research-grant-study-currents-engineered-inlets/

At the August 2016 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) international annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., four members of the ITE University Transportation Curriculum Project (UTCP) includi...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/09/06/national-transportation-award-winners/

Oregon State University earned third place among competitors throughout North America at the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Big Beam Contest. The contest objective is for student te...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/08/22/oregon-state-earns-third-place-north-america-big-beam-contest/

Oregon State University is pleased to host the 2017 ASCE/AISC National Student Steel Bridge Competition (NSSBC), May 26-27, 2017. The event, which began in the 1980s as a competition between thre...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/08/19/oregon-state-hosts-2017-national-student-steel-bridge-competition/

In his research, Assistant Professor Erdem Coleri explores sustainable pavement materials, energy-efficient pavement design strategies, and infrastructure health monitoring using wireless sensor ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/08/15/faculty-spotlight-erdem-coleri/

Two CCE graduate students in transportation engineering have been named to standing committees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). Ph.D. student Masoud Ghodrat Abadi is a member of the Co...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/07/08/cce-graduate-students-take-seats-national-research-board-committees/

As an engineering professional who spent five years in private practice prior to earning his Ph.D., Associate Professor Shane Brown knows first-hand about the skills, concepts, and qualities need...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/06/06/faculty-spotlight-shane-brown/

Assistant Professor Daniel Borello joined the structural engineering program at CCE in 2014 after earning his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Si...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/05/16/faculty-spotlight-daniel-borello/

CCE faculty members Andre Barbosa and Christopher Higgins are participating in structural testing of a wood lateral-force resisting system, as part of the Framework Project, an anticipated 12-sto...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/04/28/cce-faculty-members-conduct-structural-testing-on-12-story-tall-wood-building-design/

A familiar presence in every corner of campus, Associate School Head Chris Bell’s 35-year career at Oregon State has taken him from CCE to the College of Engineering to INTO OSU – and even to...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/04/01/faculty-spotlight-professor-and-associate-school-head-chris-bell/

CCE student teams won first place in two competitions at the Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Congress held February 14-17, 2016 in Phoenix, Ariz. Mentored by faculty member Ben Mason, the...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/03/05/cce-takes-first-in-two-competitions-at-geotechnical-and-structural-engineering-congress/

CCE is pleased to announce the new Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program, which will provide approximately 10 fellowships to support hands-on research toward increasing communit...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2016/03/04/cce-launches-summer-undergraduate-research-fellowship-program/

In December, CCE student Andy Truong was named a recipient of the 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Leadership Award. Out of the 328 ASCE student chapters, 12 Student Leader...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/12/17/ce-honors-cce-student-andy-truong/

Associate Professor Jason H. Ideker has been appointed to the editorial board of Cement and Concrete Research, a leading journal which aims to publish the best research on cement, cement composit...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/11/30/274/

After earning her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Washington State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering Instructor Amber Berger worked for eight years in private...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/11/17/cce-faculty-spotlights-3/

This year, Associate Professor of Geomatics Michael Olsen was named editor-in-chief of the ASCE Journal of Surveying Engineering. The Journal of Surveying Engineering is the leading journal in th...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/11/05/261/

While completing her undergraduate studies in pulp and paper engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology – Roorkee, India, CCE Assistant Professor Meghna Babbar-Sebens became keenly aware...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/11/02/cce-faculty-spotlights-2/

As part of its Homecoming festivities, the Oregon State University Alumni Association will recognize CCE alumnus Tom Skoro as an alumni fellow on October 23. Skoro was one of six alumni to receiv...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/10/23/cce-alumnus-tom-skoro-named-alumni-fellow/

After earning her Ph.D. in civil engineering from North Carolina State University, Assistant Professor Ingrid Arocho joined the School of Civil and Construction Engineering in January 2015. Prior...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/10/16/cce-faculty-spotlights/

  On Monday, Oct. 5, the School of Civil and Construction Engineering (CCE) hosted the first lecture in a new Distinguished Lecture Series, presented by Kiewit. The event featured veteran builde...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/10/09/cce-launches-new-lecture-series/

Student Spotlight: Will Mau Construction Engineering Management Why did you choose Oregon State? I chose Oregon State primarily because of the university’s excellent engineering program, but th...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/09/22/student-spotlight-will-mau/

Congratulations to CCE faculty members Shane Brown and Jonathan (Jack) Istok on receiving awards at the 2015 University Day Faculty and Staff Awards Recognition event. Professor Shane Brown recei...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/09/22/university-day-award-recipients-shane-brown-and-jonathan-istok/

On August 7-8, OSU hosted the executive committee meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Geomatics Division (GMD). Committee members from CCE included Assistant Professors Dan ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/08/31/cce-hosts-asce-executive-committee-meeting/

On Thursday, August 13 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. PST, Andre Barbosa and other members of the NSF-RAPID project team will discuss recent observations in the 2015 Nepal (Gorkha) Debriefing, host...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/08/13/andre-barbosa-and-nsf-rapid-team-participate-in-2015-nepal-gorhka-debriefing/

The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) announced that Oregon State University earned second place amongst competitors from throughout the nation in the annual Big Beam Contest. The OSU ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/08/10/cce-team-among-top-finalists-in-national-big-beam-contest/

CH2M-Hill, in association with Oregon State University’s (OSU) College of Engineering and School of Civil and Construction Engineering, sponsored and conducted the 46th annual model bridge cont...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/03/04/osu-cce-hosts-46th-annual-ch2m-hillosu-model-bridge-contest/

The Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering placed three teams among the top three in their respective categories at the 28th Annual Associated Schools of Construc...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/02/10/asc-student-competition/

Congratulations to OSU PhD transportation student Masoud Ghodrat Abadi on being selected as the recipient of the 2014-15 Bill Kloos Scholarship. Masoud was selected for the award after his submis...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/02/02/osu-transportation-grad-student-wins-bill-kloos-scholarship/

The PacTrans University Transportation Center recently released a five-minute video about a collaborative research/outreach project led by OSU CCE assistant professor David Hurwitz. The goal of t...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/01/26/pactrans-video-highlights-osu-research-initiatives/

OSU CCE professor David Trejo gave an invited lecture for The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society at the 2015 Middle East – Mediterranean Materials Congress, held in Doha, Qatar. Professor ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/01/25/professor-david-trejo-gives-invited-talk-materials-conference/

Congratulations to Jennifer Warner, second year MS student at OSU, as she was presented with the 2014 Michael Kyte Outstanding Student of the Year award at the PacTrans Reception during the 94th ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/01/24/jennifer-warner-wins-michael-kyte-student-year-award/

OSU CCE alum David Linton (’10), currently a project engineer at Mackenzie, will be accepting the 2015 Raymond C. Reese Research Prize at the Structures Congress in Portland in April for the pa...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2015/01/12/osu-alums-work-tsunami-forces-receives-asce-prize/

Photonics.com recently highlighted research conducted at the Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering with the discovery that algorithms could speed LiDAR assessments ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/12/03/photonics-com-highlights-osu-cce-lidar-research/

The Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering will host a pair of facility open houses on Thursday, Oct. 16, to introduce two new water research Oregon BEST laboratorie...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/10/10/osu-cce-host-open-houses-introduce-new-laboratories/

A task force that studied implementation of the Oregon Resilience Plan submitted to the Oregon legislature an ambitious program to save lives, mitigate damage and prepare for a massive subduction...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/10/06/task-force-outlines-major-initiatives-prepare-pacific-northwest-earthquake-tsunami/

This past week, 12 students from the Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering attended the annual Oregon Transportation Summit in Portland, hosted by the Oregon Transp...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/09/22/osu-students-attend-oregon-transportation-summit/

Congrats to a team of Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering students as they captured the national title in the 2014 Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Bi...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/08/13/osu-cce-wins-2014-pci-big-beam-contest/

For the first time in 67 years, the Western and Midwestern Districts of the Institute of Transportation Engineers  jointly held their annual meetings as the groups met in Rapid City, South Dakot...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/07/14/osu-cce-sends-four-students-ite-western-midwest-district-conference/

The OSU School of Civil and Construction Engineering handed out 181 undergraduate and 46 graduate degrees during the 2013-14 academic year as the class was honored at the annual CCE Graduation C...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/06/15/osu-cce-celebrates-class-2014/

Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering graduate students Dylan Anderson and Rachel Vogt have been awarded 2014 Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships. Th...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/06/11/transportation-graduate-students-awarded-ddetfp-fellowships/

Annika O’Dea, a coastal and ocean engineering graduate student in the Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright scholarshi...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/06/02/annika-odea-receives-fulbright-scholar-award/

The Oregon State University steel bridge team had an outstanding showing at the national competition as the team finished in ninth-place out of 49 teams at the event held on May 23-24, 2014, in A...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/05/27/osu-steel-bridge-team-places-ninth-nationals/

The Oregon State University College of Engineering will host the 2014 OSU Engineering Expo on Friday, May 16, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Kelley Engineering Center. This year’s Senior D...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/05/13/college-engineering-set-host-2014-osu-engineering-expo/

The O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory hosted a hands-on design challenge for approximately 1000 Oregonian students this past week in the Tsunami Structure Challenge (TSC).  The activity, le...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/05/11/wave-research-laboratory-hosts-students-tsunami-structure-challenge/

Arturo Leon, Ph.D., P.E, Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University, has been named a Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer (D.WRE) of the Am...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/05/08/professor-arturo-leon-receives-honor-aawre/

Last week, the OSU ASCE steel bridge team captured the team title at the  2014 ASCE Pacific Northwest Student Conference. With the victory in the steel bridge competition, OSU will advance to ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/05/01/support-osu-steel-bridge-team-nationals/

The Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering, in partnership with OSU Wood Science and Engineering, introduced the newest addition to the Oregon BEST Green Building Ma...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/04/30/osu-introduces-big-addition-green-building-materials-lab/

Congratulations to the Oregon State University American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter for winning four awards handed out by the organization! The chapter was honored with the followi...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/04/15/osu-asce-student-chapter-wins-number-honors/

OSU CCE hosted a guided tour of the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Lab to a group of 10 leading women engineers from 10 different countries on Thursday, April 3. The tour, given by education and out...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/04/04/osu-cce-hosts-international-visitors-program-wave-lab/

Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering professor Chris Higgins, Ph.D., P.E., the Slayden Construction Faculty Fellow, was honored with a Special Achievement Award ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/03/23/55/

Jordan Beamer, Ph.D. candidate, was one of six students selected for the prestigious 2014 CUAHSI Pathfinder Fellowship. This fellowship provides funding for students to travel to another locatio...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/03/22/jordan-beamer-selected-cuahsi-pathfinder-fellowship/

Thomas Mosier, Ph.D. candidate in WRE / MIME (dual major) was one of 12 US students admitted to the Third International Summer School in Glaciology, heldthis month in McCarthy, Alaska. The OSU gr...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/03/17/mosier-admitted-prestigious-glaciology-summer-school/

Oregon State University Civil and Construction Engineering students Andrew Strahler (PhD) and Trevor Bineham (undergrad) won first-place in the Geo-prediction contest at the annual ASCE Geo-Congr...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/03/03/strahler-bineham-combine-win-geo-prediction-contest/

Congratulations to OSU CCE graduate student Adriana Piemonti as she was selected the first-place winner in the graduate division of the ASCE-EWRI 2014 Congress Student Technical Paper Contest fo...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/02/28/adriana-piemonti-wins-asce-ewri-technical-paper-contest/

A trio of Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering alums were honored at the annual Oregon Stater Awards, held on Friday Feb. 21. Joshan W. Rohani, a project manager a...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/02/25/three-osu-cce-alumns-honored-oregon-stater-awards/

OTREC reports how OSU Civil and Construction Engineering assistant professor David Hurwitz recently completed a research project to help develop some activity-based learning modules to introduce ...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/02/14/hurwitz-revitalizing-transportationcurriculum/

The Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering placed three teams among the top three in their respective categories at the 27th Annual Associated Schools of Constructio...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/02/10/osu-asc-student-competition/

Welcome to the official blog of the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University. Go Beavs!

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/oregonstatecce/2014/01/28/welcome/