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DEPARTMENT Dear Friends, OF CIVIL AND This third annual scholarship report reflects the exceptional academic and professional accomplishments of the civil and environmental ENVIRONMENTAL engineering faculty and PhD candidates for the 2015-2016 year. Our ENGINEERING department has more than doubled in size of the faculty over the last five years, with 39 faculty in civil and environmental engineering, and has more than doubled in size of the graduate program over the last five years, with over 230 graduate students. The college looks forward to new infrastructure during this academic year, including adding a 220,000 square foot interdisciplinary science and engineering complex ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER that will provide state-of-the art laboratories. QUICK FACTS ENGINEERING STATISTICS This year the department launches two new graduate degrees, including an MS in Environmental Engineering (MSEE) and an MS in Engineering and Public Policy (MSEPP) with two concentrations, including Energy and Environment, and Infrastructure Resilience. These 2 degrees focus on topics of significant national need, with the MSEE FEDERALLY integrating environmental engineering and science with public health, water sustainability, and water-energy-nexus, and the MSEPP degree FUNDED providing students with the core skills needed to address engineering RESEARCH solutions while recognizing the impact of public policy and societal constraints on these solutions. CENTERS The department continues to expand its research presence across all fields, and is currently leading the PROTECT Center, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health, and the CRECE Center, funded by NIEHS and the Environmental Protection Agency, to study the relationship 8 between environmental contamination and preterm birth. 8 Our scholars strive to use today’s discovery NATIONAL SCIENCE and research to make tomorrow happen. You can see some highlights of our FOUNDATION CAREER civil and environmental engineering Awards faculty members at northeastern.edu/ tomorrow. We hope you enjoy this report, and we look forward to sharing our future accomplishments in our annual scholarship reports. Sincerely, Jerome F. Hajjar, Ph.D., P.E. 39 CDM Smith Professor Chair of Civil and TENURED/ E n v i r o n m e n t a l E n g i n e e r i n g TENURE-TRACK [email protected] Plus Affiliated Faculty Civil and Environmental Engineering | 400 Snell Engineering Center | civ.neu.edu DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 400 Snell Engineering Center Northeastern University 360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 P 617.373.2444 F 617.373.4419 civ.neu.edu coe.neu.edu COVER IMAGE Northeastern Civil Engineering Professor Haris Koutsopoulos uses big data to advance the state of the art in transportation network analysis. The image shown was developed using informatics gathered from GPS observations to evaluate average speed and highlight congestion of transportation links in an urban network. CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 2015 | 2016 SCHOLARSHIP REPORT QUICK FACTS — Civil and Environmental Engineering PROTECT, The Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring 2 Contamination Threats, 166 masters students FEDERALLY funded by NIH FUNDED CRECE, The Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure RESEARCH and Development, funded by 32% female CENTERS EPA and NIEHS 2016 WINNER: 8 Andrew Myers for “Advancing 8 Multi-hazard Assessment and Risk-based Design for Offshore 65 NATIONAL SCIENCE Wind Energy Technology” doctoral students FOUNDATION CAREER Awards 38% female RECENT HIRES: Ameet Pinto PhD, Virginia Tech 39 Amy Mueller PhD, MIT TENURED/ Qi Ryan Wang PhD, Virginia Tech TENURE-TRACK Plus Affiliated Faculty QUICK FACTS — College of Engineering MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH CENTERS funded by six federal agencies NEW FALL 12 UNDERGRADUATE students 2015 — 2016 DHS NSA NSF 169 DOE NIH NIST 665 TENURED/ 729 TENURE-TRACK 3550 UNDERGRADUATE students Faculty ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS 64 5 • Bio • Chemical NEW FALL MS students • Civil and Environmental 36 2015 — 2016 YOUNG • Electrical and Computer 939 • Mechanical and Industrial INVESTIGATOR NSF CAREER 1177 Awards Awards 3210 1 GRADUATE students Associate Professor Edward Beighley is one of three in the country and includes received a $651K NASA grant for Yale, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Michigan, “Integrating Lateral Contributions and University of Chicago, Pacific Northwest HONORS Longitudinal Controls Along River National Laboratory, North Carolina State Reaches to Improve SWOT Discharge University, the Center for Disease Control, Estimates.” and Northeastern University. ACHIEVEMENTS College of Engineering Distinguished Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly’s Professor Ming Wang, Professor and article, “Changes in Observed Climate Associate Dean of Graduate Education Extremes in Global Urban Areas,” was Sara Wadia-Fascetti, and COE Selected by Environmental Research FACULTY HONORS Distinguished Professor for electrical and Letters (ERL) as a feature in their computer engineering Carey Rappaport Highlights of 2015 collection. AND AWARDS were awarded a patent for “Roaming Mobile Sensor Platform for Collecting Associate Teaching Professor Geo-referenced Data and Creating CDM Smith Professor and Chair of Daniel Dulaski helped present a Thematic Maps.” civil and environmental engineering transportation improvement plan to the town of Mansfield that received Jerome Hajjar along with electrical and Assistant Professor Andrew Myers a $2.37M MassWorks grant. The computer engineering Professors Mario received a $500K NSF CAREER award project was conceived through the Civil Sznaier, Octavia Camps, Ali Abur, and for his project entitled “Advancing and Environmental Engineering NU Edmund Yeh, mehcanical and industrial Multi-hazard Assessment and Risk- Transportation Capstone program. engineering Professor Jackie Griffin, based Design for Offshore Wind Energy College of Science professor Lisa Technology.” Feldman Barrett, College of Computer Associate Professor Luca Caracoglia was and Information Science professor Associate Professor Ferdi awarded a National Science Foundation Stacy Marsella, and Kostas director Hellweger was featured award for “Active Control of Nonlinear Peter Boynton were awarded a $2.5M in the Charles River Flow-induced Instability of Wind Turbine NSF CRISP grant for the “Identification Conservatory’s third volume Blades under Stochastic Perturbations.” and Control of Uncertain, Highly of River Stories, which Interdependent Processes Involving highlights local writers and Humans with Applications to Resilient artists. “My Computerized Charles River,” STUDENTS Emergency Health Response.” explores Hellweger’s experience and PhD student Robert Phillips won research in cleaning up the Charles River. first place in the student poster Professor Akram Alshawabkeh, George A. competition at the 2016 International Snell and his team were awarded a $2.9M Assistant Professors David Fannon, Symposium on Sustainable Systems and grant for the Center for Research on Early Matthew Eckelman, and Architecture Technology meeting. Childhood Exposure and Development in Assistant Professor Michelle Laboy’s Puerto Rico (CRECE). project “Building Resilience: A Tool for Planning and Decision-making” was PhD student Dongmei Feng, studying under Ed Beighley, was selected as a Professor Haris Koutsopoulos was selected to be a part of the 2015 AIA Student Research Fellow for the 2016 awarded the Traffic Simulation Lifetime Upjohn Research Initiative. National Water Center Summer Institute. Achievement Award by the Transportation Professor Dionisio Bernal received Research Board. He has been a pioneer a National Science Foundation Kelly O’Connell E‘16, won the 2015- and a leader in the field of traffic grant for “Monitoring the Health of 2016 Co-op Student of the Year award simulation modeling for over 20 years. Structural Systems from the Geometry from the Cooperative and Experiential CDM Smith Professor and Civil and of Sensor Traces.” Education Division of ASEE. Environmental Engineering Department Professor Mishac Yegian and PhD student Wenjun Zhang received Chair Jerome Hajjar is a co-recipient of George A. Snell Professor of Engineering this year’s Outstanding Graduate Student the 2016 ASCE Moisseiff Award from the Professor Akram Alshawabkeh were Award in the category of Research: American Society of Civil Engineers for his awarded a $342K NSF grant for “Field Life Science, Physical Sciences, and paper on “Quasi-static Cyclic Behavior of Application of Induced Partial Saturation Engineering. Controlled Rocking Steel Frames.” (IPS) for Liquefaction Mitigation.” Julieta Moradei E’16, won the College of Engineering Distinguished Thornton Tomasetti Foundation National Professor Ming Wang was awarded a Assistant Professor Matthew Eckelman Scholarship, 2016 Sears B. Condit Award, patent for his design of a “Saliva Glucose is a part of a $10M, 5-year EPA center and was awarded the 2016 Civil and Monitoring System.” which is co-hosted by Yale and John Hopkins. The “SEARCH: Solutions to Environmental Engineering Chair Award. Energy, AiR, Climate, and Health” Center 2 FACULTY BY RESEARCH THRUSTS CIVIL SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESOURCE HEALTH SECURITY ENGINEERING George Adams Akram Alshawabkeh Luca Caracoglia Joseph Ayers Edward Beighley Daniel Dulaski Dionisio Bernal Matthew Eckelman Matthew Eckelman Luca Caracoglia Loretta Fernandez David Fannon Steven Cranford Auroop Ganguly Peter Furth Daniel Dulaski Tarik