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Graduate student looks to inform coastal communities on how to respond to hurricanes , articleSince 2019, civil and environmental engineering graduate student Nick Brilli has participated in the U.S. Coastal Research Program’s During Nearshore Event Experience project in Duck, North Carolina, to help develop better methods for characterizing the erodibility of coastal sediments.
Date: Oct 05, 2021 -
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In memoriam: Antoine Hobeika, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering , articleHobeika served at Virginia Tech for 43 years, teaching courses in transportation infrastructure and systems engineering before retiring in 2016. He died on Sept. 20, 2021.
Date: Oct 04, 2021 -
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Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz receives NSF CAREER Award, Department of Energy grant to study atmospheric gases , article“The picture we have in our mind of air pollution is black smoke billowing out of a smokestack or tailpipe,” said Isaacman-VanWertz, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. “But the truth is that it is much more complicated.”
Date: Jun 14, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech Concrete Canoe team breaks a 16-year streak in regional competition , articleEach year, the Virginia Tech Concrete Canoe team takes on the challenge of making something easily sinkable float.
Date: Jun 10, 2021 -
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Eric Jacques selected by the Office of Naval Research for its Young Investigator Program , articleJacques, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering, serves as the director of the Shock Tube Research Facility, a space equipped with a large-scale gas-detonation blast simulator, where he and his team study structural and non-structural components subject to extreme blast loads.
Date: Jun 04, 2021