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Raphael Stern with Benjamin Rosenblad standing in the Charles Fairhurst Rotunda
Awards and Honors, Department News, Profiles, Research, Transportation engineering

The next generation of transportation engineers: Ben Rosenblad

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Starting at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering, Benjamin Rosenblad (BCE 2023) was not even aware that transportation was a specialty within Civil Engineering. Four years later, he found himself heading off to graduate school to study Next Generation Transportation Systems with the benefit of a competitive and highly prestigious fellowship from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). 

Raphael Stern
Transportation engineering

CAVs are coming; $15 mil will ease the transition

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Assistant Professor Raphael Stern is part of the team of researchers awarded $15 million by the U.S. Department of Transportation to help lead the transition to connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). Led by the University of Michigan, the team includes UMN’s Center for Transportation Studies (CTS) and will leverage the experience of the MnCAV Ecosystem, drawing on UMN’s unique strengths to conduct transportation research concerning equity, public perception and trust, the connected environment, vulnerable road users, and cold weather conditions.

Raymond Hozalski in lab with ultrafiltration system
Department News, Research, Water/Environmental engineering

Protecting Clean Water: Faculty awarded $2.1 million to study opportunistic pathogens and disinfection byproducts in US drinking water systems

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Pathogens (i.e., microorganisms that can make people sick) and disinfection byproducts (DBPs; potentially toxic chemicals formed when disinfectants like chlorine are added to water) are two classes of contaminants that are of concern in public water systems. Hozalski, et al., will examine opportunistic pathogens or OPs and contaminants that occur as byproducts of disinfection.

Kaleena Miller and Vaughan Voller
Department News, Geomechanical engineering, Water/Environmental engineering

Tapping into Random Motion: Art in Engineering

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Vaughan Voller taps dance troupe to communicate about his research into patterns of movement in nature.

signage reminding people to disinfect a work area
Department News, Water/Environmental engineering

To disinfect or not to disinfect, is that the question?

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​​​​​​​A recent (May 2023) article by several researchers, including CEGE’s own Bill Arnold, raised a warning about overuse of disinfectants. The use of disinfectants went way up during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The issue has garnered interest from the media. Is this widespread use doing more harm than good?

Kimberly Hill in the Fluids Teaching Laboratory in UMN's Civil Engineering Building
Geomechanical engineering, Profiles, Water/Environmental engineering

Kimberly Hill Studies Particles That Can Bring Down Mountains

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Dramatic landslides can capture popular attention. Kimberly Hill’s work helps us understand the physics behind such dramatic slides and, more importantly, how we might improve prevention efforts and mitigate the consequences.

Nahum Yelizarov
Department News, Structural engineering, Student Activities

Nahum Yelizarov, BCE + Research Led to a Master's Degree

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"Getting involved in research with various professors let me explore my interests and opened a door to a Master’s degree. Taking higher level design and theory classes in structural engineering, as well as doing a thesis, allowed me to get a better technical understanding and taught me to how educate myself on topics I don’t know.”

Department News, Profiles, Transportation engineering

Student Leaders Take on Multiple Roles

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The largest professional engineering group for CEGE students is the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter. The group offers fun, connection, knowledge, competition, study help, and exposure to engineering professionals and companies. The students who step up to lead this dynamic group are themselves dynamic. This year the President of the University of Minnesota Student Chapter of ASCE is Anthony (AJ) Tabura, and Chandler Lallak serves as the Vice President.

Paige Novak, department head in CEGE with Edie, Gary, and James Postiglione
Alumni, Department News, Water/Environmental engineering

Postiglione Scholarship Supports Environmental Engineering Students and Our Planet

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The EDITH (EDIE) AND GARY POSTIGLIONE SCHOLARSHIP IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING in the College of Science and Engineering was established to help the environment by teaching future generations to care for it.

Department News

Spring News Roundup

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A roundup of news from CEGE.