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Student Experience: Keane Nowlan
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Keane Nowlan is a senior and will be graduating in May 2020. He grew up in the Twin Cities and worked alongside his father in his custom cabinetry business.
Student Experience: Emma O'Leary
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Emma O'Leary (BCE 2018) is a graduate student. She will be completing her Master’s of Science degree in May 2020. Having a father who is an environmental engineer, she was always aware of that as a career possibility.
Research: Earth's Water System
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Xue Feng conducts research to build understanding of the movement of water and carbon within terrestrial ecosystems, like forests and peatlands. She is interested in how that movement will affect the global climate.
Research: Earth's Water System
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Ardeshir Ebtehaj strives to advance a deeper and more predictive understanding of global changes in Earth’s water cycle.
Research: Earth's Water System
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Two CEGE faculty, Xue Feng and Ardeshir Ebtehaj, explain their research on earth’s water system and the models that help them predict what might happen when water systems change.
Carol Shield Recognized for Service and Leadership
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Carol Shield, CSE Distinguished Professor, was recognized for her outstanding service to the concrete profession at the 69th Annual Concrete Conference, December 5, 2019, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Shield has devoted more than 20 years of service to the American Concrete Institute (ACI), in particular, through her work with ACI Committee 440 FRP (Fiber Reinforced Polymer) Reinforcement. Shield served as chair from 2009-2015. During that time, she led a committee of more than 200 members, 60 voting members, and 11 subcommittees. Shield is currently working on the ACI 318 Structural Concrete Building Code equivalent for FRP.
Fairhurst and Galambos: A celebration of 90 years
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CEGE is built on a legacy of excellence. It is our pleasure to introduce a special tribute edition of our CEGE magazine to honor two of our Emeriti Professors—Charles Fairhurst and Theodore Galambos—who both celebrated their 90th birthdays in 2019. This special edition collects tributes and anecdotes from some of their colleagues.
Svetlana Baranova presents at Cambridge
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Svetlana Baranova, a Ph.D. student advised by Sonia Mogilevskaya, presented a poster at the workshop “Computational Complex Analysis” as part of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI) in Cambridge, UK.
Rongsheng Chen receives Ryuichi Kitamura Paper Award
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Rongsheng Chen, a Ph.D. student advised by Michael Levin, has received an award for his research paper “Dynamic User Equilibrium of Mobility-on-Demand System with Linear Programming Rebalancing Strategy.”
Hot Read: Researchers Publish New Paper on Use of Iron and Iron-bearing Minerals
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Engineers in many fields—civil, chemical, electrical, medical, for example—use iron and iron-bearing minerals. And several methods have been developed to identify and classify iron in these many different scenarios.