Fall 2022: CEE@UCI News

Fall 2022

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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with civil engineering professor Brett Sanders about what's needed in terms of infrastructure planning to make communities more resilient to serious floods and storms.

Chair's Message

As you will see in this edition of the CEE@UCI Newsletter, our faculty and students are continuing to win accolades for their work, with Adeleye named a “Talented 12” by Chemical & Engineering News, AghaKouchak and Alborzi winning the ASCE Norman medal for their work on levee fragility in a changing climate, Foufoula-Georgiou elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Lemnitzer honored by ASCE for her geotechnical work, and Qomi winning an NSF CAREER award. CEE@UCI is helping solve some of the major challenges of our time, from building more resilient infrastructure to battling more frequent forest fires. We are doing so in an increasingly challenging environment, which includes a global economic slowdown, war in Ukraine (but also in the Tigray, South Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen) and the waning of the COVID-19 crisis. Let us continue to work together to build a better, more equitable and sustainable world, in California, the U.S. and abroad.

Sincerely,

Jean-Daniel Saphores

Professor and Chair

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Foufoula-Georgiou Recognized by Prestigious Honorary Society

UCI’s Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Distinguished Professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.

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NSF Selects Qomi for CAREER Award

Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, has won a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation.

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UCI-led Research Recommends Extending California’s Prescribed Burning Season

Prescribed burning of ground-level shrubs, branches and leaves is a time-tested tool to help prevent wildland fires from getting out of control, but a team led by researchers at UCI suggests that the practice isn’t used frequently enough.

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ASCE Honors Lemnitzer for Research Contribution to Geotechnical Engineering

Anne Lemnitzer, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received the 2022 Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for her research assessing the seismic hazard and failure potential of levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

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Two UCI Teams to Participate in Orange County Sustainability Decathlon 2023

Two engineering groups from UCI – one in partnership with Orange Coast Community College and one from the UCI Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – are among the 18 teams chosen to enter the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon 2023.

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ASCE Awards AghaKouchak and Alborzi with the Norman Medal

A research paper co-authored by Amir AghaKouchak, UCI professor of civil and environmental engineering, and engineering graduate student Aneseh Alborzi has been selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers Awards Committee to receive the 2022 Norman Medal.

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Sunny Jiang Shines a Light on Water Cleanliness

More than 780 million people worldwide lack access to clean water. Even more so, 884 million people do not have water that’s safe enough to drink, according to the CDC.

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Adeleye Named a 'Talented 12' by Chemical & Engineering News

Adeyemi Adeleye, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a 2022 “Talented 12” by Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), a publication of the American Chemical Society.

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