CEGE Magazine

Spring 2025

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• BIG DATA in engineering
  • Seongjin Choi's research relies on big data 3
  • Jon Chiglo plans and monitors transportation with big data 5
  • Ben Crary monitors natural surface waters using big data 7
• Tucker Adams  (BCE 2024) 10
• Remembering Ken Reid 12
• Warren Distinguished Lecture Series 13
• First CEGE scholarship specific to transportation students 19

Fall 2024

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• St. Paul City Councilmember Saura Jost, PE
• A glimpse of graduate student research experiences in CEGE
• Small substances, large impacts: Judy Yang's Environmental Research
• Warren Distinguished Lecture Series
• CEGE News Roundup Fall 2024
• New Class Leads Students Through Data to Solutions

Spring 2024

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• Catherine French elected to the National Academy of Engineering
• MAST: A Most Amazing Structural Testing Lab
• Engineers Without Borders Gather Data with the Help of their Professional Partners
• Stories of Change: Climate, Zebra Mussels, and Automated Vehicles
• Environmental Engineering Student Brian Balquist Wins BizPitch
• Spring 2024 News Roundup
• Randal Barnes Received Horace T. Morse Award
• Carol Shield, Honorary Member of the American Concrete Institute

Fall 2023

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• Inspired and Innovative Teaching in CEGE
  • Award Winning Teacher Erin Surdo
  • Distinguished Teaching Recognized...and Shared
  • A Circularity Revolution: a Class and a Program for Graduate Students
  • DIAGONAL Program for Graduate Students
  • Storytelling for Engineers
  • Sharing a Passion for Transportation Engineering
  • Humanitarian Engineering
  • Inspired by a Great Teacher 
  • Next Gen Transportation Engineer 
• Parkers Name CEGE's Rock Preparation Lab 
• Ebtahaj Receives $2.9 Million in Support from NASA 
• New Faculty 
• News 
  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Students
  • University & Department

Spring 2023

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• The Lead[ing] Engineer: Three on Top - Nancy Daubenberger, Katrina Kessler, Bret Weiss
• Warren Distinguished Lecture Series
• Kimberly Hill Studies Particles That Can Bring Down Mountains
• Student Profiles: AJ Tabura, Chandler Lallak, Nahum Yelizarov
• Financial Supporters
• Postiglione Scholarship
• Judy Yang Receives NSF CAREER Award

Fall 2022

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• Fall News Roundup 3
• MTS Professorship in Geomechanics 7
• $11 Million to Advance Mineral 
  Carbon Storage
• Training the Next Generation in 
  Resource Circularity
• MWRF 5 Years In 
• Warren Distinguished Lecture Series
• Charles Fairhurst Rotunda Dedication 14
• Student Profile: Phoebe Edalatpour 
  Cleaning Up Waste AND Supporting
  Gender Equity in Sierra Leone
• Scholarships & Awards 18
• Jane Lansing Receives UMN Service Award

Spring 2022

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• Xue Feng Receives NSF Career Award
• Alumna Sherry Van Duyn
• Love and upkeep for award-winning
       Civil Engineering Building 12-13
• Faculty Profile: Henryk Stolarski
• Madison Haydn-Myer and Ellie Longar, Geoengineering Majors 17
• Martha Burket, Environmental Engineering Major 18
• Justin Babcock, Civil Enginnering Major 19
• Joseph Labuz Ten Years: Mission, Milestones, Memories
• Qzihi He Joins CEGE 

Fall 2021

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• Gary Davis, Transportation
  Engineer
• Warren Lecture Series
• Lacabanne Rock Mechanics
  Laboratory Opening
• Alumnus Ali Daneshy and the
  Mysterious Underground
• Junior Mentoring Program
  in STEM
• Three Faculty Promoted: Gonella, Le, Khani
• and more news!

Spring 2021

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• Faculty Research: Integrating Automated Vehicles
• EWB Gets Grant from Rotary International
• CEGE Capstone Mentors
• 3M/Coleman Family Foundation Scholarship
• Heuer Soil Mechanics Lab Operations Fund
• Warren Lecture Series
• 100 Years of ASCE at UMN
• Renee Sailor: A Student and a Leader
• Financial Supporters
• Xue Feng Receives NSF Career Award

Fall 2020

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• COVID-19-related Research: Raphael Stern, Timothy LaPara, Alireza Khani, Raymond Hozalski, William Arnold
• Alumni Profile: Dennis Kim
• Student Profiles: Svetlana Baranova and Celina Tragesser
• John Gulliver Honored with Rouse Award

Spring 2020

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• Alumni Profile: Daniel Murphy
• Student Profiles: Juan Lopez, Keane Nowlan, Emma O'Leary
• Faculty Research: Ardeshir Ebtehaj and Xue Feng
• Carol Shield Recognized for Service and Leadership

Special Issue
Fairhurst and Galambos: Celebration of 90 Years

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This special edition celebrates Emeritus Professor Charles Fairhurst and Emeritus Professor Ted Galambos, who have been instrumental in establishing CEGE and its reputation as a department of inspired and innovative engineering for society.

Fall 2019

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• Faculty Profile: John Gulliver
• CEGE Professional Advisory Board
• Alumni Profile: Ali Ling
• EWB-UMN Summer Travel Photos
• Student Profile: Kat Hetico
• New Faculty Member: Raphael Stern

Spring 2019

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• Faculty Profile: Catherine French & Carol Shield
• Diego De Bedout: One Student’s Formula for Success: ‘Put Yourself Out There!’
• Alumni Profile: Laura Amundson
• ‘Part of This Together’: Alumna Powers Global Engagement
• The Right Tool for the Job

Fall 2018

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• Record Professors Vaughan Voller and Miki Hondzo
• Warren Lecture Series Fall 2018
• Alumni Profile: Amy Vennewitz
• Student Profiles: Anna Liakou and Noah Germolus

Spring 2018

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• Alumna Jane Lansing, Brand Officer and Vice President of Marketing for Emerson Automation Solutions
• Assoc. Professor Sebastian Behrens: Molecular Ecology for Environmental Engineering
• Mariah Dooley and Edwin Jarquin Martinez: global students

Fall 2017

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• Assistant Professors Promise Bright Future for CEGE
• John T. Tate Hall Reopens for Classes
• Dennis Martenson, a Very Civil CivilEngineer
• Chi Epsilon: Old Book Tells Long Story of Excellence

Spring 2017

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• Alumnus Marcus Thomas Sees A Bright Future for Civil Engineering
• Jia-Liang Le: A Paradigm-changing Framework
• Three Student Profiles
  Doug Novak, Civil Engineering Major
  Rena Weis, Environmental Engineering Major
  Emily Erhart, Geoengineering Major
• Memorials
• Dominik Schillinger: NSF CAREER Award

Fall 2016

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• Alumni Profile: Bernie Bullert
• Research Article: On the Crest of Waves Research
• Student Profile: Robert Rudin, Drum Major
• New Dean in the College of Science and Engineering
• Ardeshir Ebtehaj Joins CEGE Faculty

Spring 2016

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• Alumni Profile: Karin Gessner
• Feature Article: Drinking River Water
• Student Profiles: Lindsay Gaines and Shelly Matsuda
• Detournay elected to National Academy of Engineering

Fall 2015

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• News from the department and from our students, faculty, and alumni
• Alumni Profile: Loren Lorig
• Lab Renovations
• Student Profiles: Kelsey Holthaus, Sam Paitich, Ali Ebrahimian
• Model Professors: Henryk Stolarski, Dominik Schillinger, Sofia Mogilevskaya, Santiago Romero-Vargas Castrillón
• 2015 CEGE Homecoming Event Photos on Facebook

Spring 2015

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• News from the department and from our students, faculty, and alumni
• Alumni Profile: Mike Spack
• Freshwater Aquifers: Otto Strack and Randal Barnes
• 2014 Homecoming Tailgate Brunch Photos
• Student Profiles: Jared Hartman and Meaghan McGinn
• Warren Lectures Foster Collaboration
• Farewell to Gil Huie
• Gonella Receives NSF CAREER Award
• Thanks to our Donors
• Cale Anger Best Master's Thesis Award

Fall 2014

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• News from the department and from our students, faculty, and alumni
• Alumni Profile: Naeem Qureshi
• Faculty Profile: Paige Novak
• Student Profiles: Anthony Vecchi & Justice Harvieux
• Charles Fairhurst, Légion d’Honneur
• Three New Faculty
• Visiting Student Researchers

Spring 2014

• News from the department and from our students, faculty, and alumni
• Alumni Profile: Nancy Daubenberger
• Student and Study Lounges Updated
• Pictorial review of the CE Building: Then & Now
• Q&A with Professor Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
• 3 Student Profiles: Steven Borntrager, Kathryn Klarich, and Noah Kimmes
• List of Donors
• The Order of the Engineer

Fall 2013

• News from the department and from our students, faculty, and alumni
• Alumni Profile: John Houle
• New Faculty: Lauren Linderman and Dominik Schillinger
• Research: Hydraulic Fracturing
• Student Profile: Michelle Maciej
• Scholarships & Awards
• Charles Fairhurst Honored as an Officer in the French Legion d’honneur