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September eNews
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Undergrad Program Ranked #3 in the U.S.
The Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering (LSCCE) is a top 3 undergraduate program in the United
States.
U.S. News & World Report has released its national rankings of undergraduate programs for 2025 with Purdue
University LSCCE ranked #3 in the nation. The rankings are computed from the responses to a survey sent to deans, heads, and selected senior faculty.
"Our success and achievements come as a result of the incredible and dedicated people who continue to make great strides in research,
academics, and industry," said Rao S. Govindaraju, Bowen Engineering Head of Civil Engineering and Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering. "Their efforts and persistent pursuits are what makes LSCCE truly special."
Overall, Purdue University's College of Engineering undergraduate program was ranked 8th in the nation.
For more information about Purdue Engineering's 2025 undergraduate rankings, go
HERE
A full listing of the Purdue Engineering national rankings can be viewed
HERE
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Upcoming Events
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October
1st — Employer Day:
CDM Smith, 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. in Wood Commons
2nd —
Employer Day: JQOL,
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Wood Commons
3rd —
Employer Day:
ARSEE Engineers,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Wood Commons
10th — Construction Engineering Outstanding Alumni Awards Dinner
10th — CESAC Career Fair: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the CoRec
11th — Construction Engineering Industry Advisory Board Meeting
15th —
Employer Day:
ATMI Precast,
8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Wood Commons
16th —
Employer Day:
CB&I,
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Wood Commons
22nd —
Employer Day:
KJG,
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Wood Commons
16th —
Employer Day:
CB&I,
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Wood Commons
29th —
Employer Day:
DeSimone Consulting,
TBD in Wood Commons
30th —
Employer Day:
Datum Engineering,
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Wood Commons
31st —
CESAC Bagel Breakfast, 8-11 a.m. in Wood Commons
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Latest News
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Brandon Boor named Dr. Margery E. Hoffman Associate Professor in Civil Engineering
Dr. Brandon E. Boor has been named the Dr. Margery E. Hoffman Associate Professor in Civil Engineering. This professorship has a 5-year term that will extend through Fall 2029.
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James Rowings honored with Engineering Alumni Association Loyalty Award
James E. (Jim) Rowings (BSCE 1975, MSCE 1979, Ph.D. 1982) has been honored by the Purdue Engineering Alumni Association with the 2024 Loyalty Award. He is a member of the Civil Engineering Advisory Council,
and received the Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award (CEAAA) in 2009.
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Mirian Velay-Lizancos named Bowen Scholar of Excellence, Associate Director of Pankow Lab
Mirian Velay-Lizancos, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, has been named the Bowen Scholar of Excellence and also the Associate Director of the Pankow Materials Laboratory in the Lyles School of Civil
and Construction Engineering.
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Akanshu Sharma named Jack and Kay Hockema Associate Professor in Civil Engineering
Akanshu Sharma has been named the Jack and Kay Hockema Associate Professor in Civil Engineering. This professorship has a 5-year term that will extend through Fall 2029.
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Satish Ukkusuri selected as senior member of INFORMS
Satish V. Ukkusuri, Reilly Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Urban Mobility Networks and Intelligence (UMNI) Lab at Purdue, has been selected to be part of the summer
2024 class of INFORMSSenior
Members. INFORMS advances and promotes the science and technology of decision making to save lives, save money, and solve problems through an array of highly-cited publications, conferences, competitions, networking communities, and professional development
services.
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Autonomous vehicles could understand their passengers better with ChatGPT, research shows
Imagine simply telling your vehicle, “I’m in a hurry,” and it automatically takes you on the most efficient route to where
you need to be. Purdue University engineers have found that an autonomous vehicle (AV) can do this with the help of ChatGPT or other chatbots made possible by artificial intelligence algorithms called large language models.
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Luna Lu joins NAE study committee on innovative materials in water resources infrastructure
Luna Lu, Associate Dean of Faculty of College of Engineering and Reilly Professor of Civil Engineering, is a member of the study committee formed by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to identify key
demands and challenges facing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) related to navigation and flood risk management assets.
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Jie Shan appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Jie Shan, Professor of Civil Engineering, has been appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE journal
Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS).
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CCE's AMP exhibit autonomous go-kart at Indy Autonomous Challenge
Autonomous Motorsports Purdue (AMP), advised by Lyles CCE professor, Samuel Labi, exhibited the club’s autonomous go-kart at the Innovation Paddock, in conjunction with the Autonomous Karting Series (AKS)
organization. The paddock was a part of the Indy Autonomous Challenge event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on September 6, 2024.
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Celebrating 150 years of Purdue engineering excellence
Today’s Purdue engineering students will change the world, as their predecessors have done for the last 150 years.
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Samuel Olabode receives second runner-up Best Paper Award at 2024 ASCE i3CE conference
Construction Engineering Ph.D. student Oluwaseun Samuel Olabode has received the second runner-up Best Paper Award at the 2024 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3ce2024), held
at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Hyewon Hailey Seo receives 2024 Best Student Award from Construction Industry Institute
Construction Engineering Ph.D. student Hyewon Hailey Seo has been honored with the Outstanding Student Award by the Construction Industry Institute (CII). This award recognizes her exceptional academic achievements,
dedication, and commitment to excellence.
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Joel Gomez breaks the Americas record at the Paralympic
Competing in the Paralympic final of the 1,500-meter T13 at Stade de France, Gomez finished in 3:48.42. He placed seventh overall for Team USA, his best career Paralympic Games finish. Along with setting an Americas record, Gomez bested his previous personal-best
time by two seconds. He was 0.13 seconds shy of also breaking what was the world record entering the day.
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Teaching kids about Civil and Construction Engineering
Earlier this month, Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering Prof. Sogand Hasanzadeh's I2Safe lab team held an outreach event at the Imagination Station to inspire and capture the imaginations of kids
by introducing them to the world of civil and construction engineering through hands-on, interactive activities.
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