Recent News and Announcements
SIUE Chi Epsilon Induction on April 11, 2025
15 May 2025, 12:00 AM
The SIUE Chapter of Chi Epsilon (XE) inducted 8 new members earlier this semester. This was our first in-person induction in some time. Congratulations to all and a special thanks to the 2024-25 XE officers.
Pictured standing from left to right: Brady Dillon (Fmr Vice President), Francis Garrison (Fmr. Marshal), Brooke Rogers, Lillian Waghorn,...
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Connection, Culture, Comradery on Display at SIUE Affinity Graduation Ceremonies
5 May 2025, 12:00 PM
SIUE Students Reflect on Good Times at SIUE and Look Toward the Future
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville was a place of refuge that made for a tremendous experience, with warm faculty, interdisciplinary coursework and a beautiful campus, according to several graduating seniors.
Students reminisced about their experiences and academic careers at the University and talked about their career goals after participating in Affinity Celebrations last week. The SIUE commencement season b...
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One Day One SIUE 2025: A Win for Cougars on Campus and Beyond
28 April 2025, 5:48 PM
Fourth Annual Fundraising Celebration Exceeds $2.5 million Goal and Sees Significant Contribution from Local Employer
The much-anticipated countdown by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Chancellor James T. Minor, PhD, at the motor-sport themed One Day, One SIUE led to a grand slam. Surrounded by SIUE Cheer and Dance Team, Minor prepared the big reveal: “The final tally for this year’s One Day, One SIUE...5, 4, 3....” The audience joined in, "...2...1," acco...
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SIUE GeoPrediction Team Takes First Place at GeoInstitute Competition
22 April 2025, 11:55 AM
Members of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s GeoPrediction chapter took home the first place Mohr Circle Trophy at the GeoFrontiers 2025 competition. GeoInstitute advisor and assistant professor Saad Ullah, PhD, PE, said this is the first time the team has won a national competition during his tenure as an advisor. He said the organization has helped students grow an awareness for geotechnical engineering.
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National Collegiate Honors Council Appoints SIUE Civil Engineering Student Aman Pai to its Board of Directors
21 April 2025, 2:04 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville sophomore Aman Pai has been appointed to the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Board of Directors. The NCHC is dedicated to supporting honors education throughout universities across the globe. Pai is the only current SIUE representative that has been selected for this honor.
Pai is currently a civil engineering major. He is on track to graduate in May 2027. Pai found SIUE after graduating from Parkway North High School in his hometown of Ma...
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SIUE Students Win 1st Place in the Geo-Prediction Competition
6 March 2025, 12:30 PM
SIUE students won 1st place at the Geo-Prediction competition at GeoFrontiers 2025. As recognition for this accomplishment, SIUE will host the coveted Mohr-Coulomb Trophy for the next year. Pictured below from left to right are Aspy Bronoski Mbani Illo (Pursuing his MSCE), Dr. Saad Ullah (Civil Engineering Faculty), and Brooke Rogers (Pursuing her...
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SIUE Hosts Record Number of Registrants for Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2025
17 February 2025, 1:27 PM
Aiming to educate and inspire students, the annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day will be on Feb. 22 in the School of Engineering (SOE) building. The event is for students in grades 6-12 eager to learn more about engineering. Students will hear from a keynote speaker, as well as a panel of engineering students.
Presented by Ameren, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (IGE) is scheduled for the final day of SIUE’s Engineering Week. The event is planned by SIUE’s Society of Wo...
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The Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Faculty Hosted Conference at SIUE
2 December 2024, 3:15 PM
The environmental and water recourses engineering faculty members of the SIUE Civil Engineering Department organized the 2024 Mid-American Environmental Engineering Conference (MAEEC) on October 19 at SIUE. Graduate students and their faculty advisors attended a day-long conference, where students presented their research. The attendees represent...
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Seven SIUE Civil Engineering Faculty, Students, Alumni, and IPAC Members Recognized at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) St. Louis 2024 Annual Awards Dinner
4 October 2024, 10:00 AM
SIUE Civil Engineering had multiple recognitions of their faculty, students, alumni and advisory board members at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) St. Louis 2024 Annual Awards Dinner on Friday, September 20, 2024.
Two SIUE students were recognized with scholarships. Andrew Holba (below, left), president of the SIUE ASCE Student...
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SIUE ASCE Student Chapter, Recipient of Two Prestigious Recognitions
7 May 2024, 8:10 AM
The SIUE ASCE Student Chapter is the recipient of two prestigious recognition awards: the 2024 Letter of Significant Improvement and the 2024 Letter of Honorable Mention. These awards are for the Chapter’s activities as recorded in the 2023 Student Chapter annual report. This is recognition received by only the top third of all...
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SIUE ITE Student Chapter has been awarded this year’s MOVITE Student Chapter Momentum Award
5 May 2024, 8:55 AM
Over the past year, the SIUE Inastitute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter has been actively involved in both on-campus and off-campus outreach activities. The Chapter has invited transportation professionals to campus to share their experiences and insights, broaden our students' understanding of the latest trends and developments...
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Drs Rohan Benjankar and Jianpeng (Jim) Zhou received the 2024 Emeritus College Faculty Award to host the 29th Mid-American Environmental Engineering Conference in Fall 2024 at SIUE
11 April 2024, 10:00 AM
Dr. Rohan Benjankar and Dr. Jim Zhou received SIUE ECFA funding for hosting the 29th Mid-American Environmental Engineering Conference (MAEEC) in Fall 2024 at SIUE, where students and faculties from multiple universities in Illinois and Missouri will present their research findings to fellow students, faculty members, and environmental...
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Professor Jianpeng (Jim) Zhou, Chair of the Technical Coordination ExCom, Spotlighted in the 2024 Winter Issue of the EWRI CURRENTS
7 February 2024, 12:00 AM
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FE Review Sessions 2022
3 October 2022, 10:47 AM
The SIUE Chi Epsilon student chapter has announced the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam review session schedule for Fall 2022. You will find the schedule and other details...
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Experimental-Scale Fault Rupture Test on Buried Pipeline Reinforced with Segmental Protective Shield
3 November 2021, 12:00 AM
The Graduate School’s Research Grants for Research Doctoral Students program awarded a competitive grant to Civil Engineering PhD candidate Hamid Rostami for Experimental-scale Fault Rupture Test on Buried Pipeline Reinforced with Segmental Protective Shield. More detail can be found at feature SIUE Research and Creative Activities...
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SIUE’s David Sherrill Supports Region’s Surveyors
31 October 2021, 12:00 AM
David. J. Sherrill, PLS, Land Surveying Program Coordinator and Instructor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, presented at the 64th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors at Osage Beach, Missouri in October 2021. The Association has over 800 members from Missouri and surrounding States....
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U.S. Corps of Engineers Recognizes SIUE Alumnus
8 October 2021, 12:00 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering (SOE) alumnus Stefan Flynn has been recognized as the 2021 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Early Career Geoprofessional of the Year....
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Two Civil Engineering Graduate Students Receive Fellowships
28 September 2021, 12:00 AM
The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) has awarded two $5,000 Fellowship Grants to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering (SOE) students. Mr. Hamid Rostami is a student in SIUE’s Cooperative Program in Engineering Science, working under the guidance of Abdolreza Osouli, PhD, in the Department of Civil Engineering. His...
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SIUE Alumnus Ghimire Triumphs in Transportation Research Contest
30 August 2021, 12:00 AM
Ishwor Ghimire from the SIUE Department of Civil Engineering won the 2021 Dr. Nylen W. Edwards Memorial Transportation Research Paper Contest for creating a detailed no-notice evacuation plan for the SIUE road network....
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Civil Engineering Team Awarded $462K from IDOT to Improve Scour Estimate Analyses for Bridge Stability
5 November 2020, 12:00 AM
Faculty and staff in the Department of Civil Engineering have been awarded a $462K grant by Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) for a 4-year research project that will analyze scour estimates at bridge sites in Illinois to produce findings that will lead to improvements related to bridge design and maintenance. Abdolreza Osouli,...
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CE Doctoral Candidate Kargar Receives Geosynthetic Institute Fellowship Grant
22 October 2020, 12:00 AM
Civil Engineering doctoral candidate Pourya Kargar has been awarded a Fellowship Grant by the Geosynthetic Institute for his research proposal “Investigating Seismic Response of Geocell Reinforced Retaining Walls with Low Plasticity Backfills Using Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis.” More information about Mr. Kargar and and this...
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SIUE Civil Engineering Prof. Cross Named ASCE Fellow
21 October 2020, 9:00 PM
Prof. Brad Cross, professor of structural engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, has been named Fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers. More information about Dr. Cross and this honor can be found here.
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2020 Annual Mid-America Environmental Engineering Conference
20 October 2020, 3:11 PM
The Department of Civil Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is pleased to announce we are again hosting this regional conference in close collaboration with five other midwest universities and the Environmental and Water Resources Institute Saint Louis Chapter.
October 24, 2020 (Saturday), 8:40am-5:30pm
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CE Graduate Students Acknowledged with Multiple Awards
24 October 2019, 12:00 AM
We wish to congratulate Civil Engineering Graduate students Pourya Kargar Ghomesheh, Hamid Rostami, and Ravali Vennu on their recent awards.
Pourya Kargar Ghomesheh was the recipient of the Ohio Valley Chapter Thomas A. Buzek Scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year. This scholarship includes an award of $3,000 as well as registration, travel,...
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Local Elementary Robotics Team Visits SIUE School of Engineering
9 October 2019, 12:00 AM
Last month, the First Lego League (FLL) Robotics Team at St. John Neumann School had an opportunity to spend an afternoon with Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Department of Civil Engineering (CE). More information...
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CE Graduate Student Jace McGuire awarded SEI-St. Louis Chapter Scholarship
19 September 2019, 12:00 AM
We wish to congratulate Jace McGuire, Civil Engineering Structural Master's student, who has been awarded the SEI-St. Louis Chapter Scholarship. The St. Louis Chapter of SEI provides this competitive scholarship to a graduate student who is pursuing a Master’s degree in Structural or Civil Engineering with a structural emphasis...
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SIUE Ranked 1st in the US in Community and Public Service
6 September 2019, 12:00 AM
The 2019 National University Rankings in Washington Monthly’s Top National Universities ranked SIUE first in the nation in community and public service. This ranking evaluated 395 universities in the United States that award doctoral degrees and includes prestigious institutions such as Harvard, MIT, and Princeton. ...
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SIUE Alumna Receives “Innovative Transportation Award”
19 August 2019, 12:00 AM
Jerilyn Hassard (BSCE 1997) received the “Innovative Transportation Award” for her work on a project designing replacement approach structures for the Martin Luther King bridge. Her design included five spans of composite steel plate girders, one being curved. As the project lead, she coordinated with several agencies and...
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Civil Engineering Researchers Measure Salt Concentration in Local Bodies of Water Study Impact on Ecosystem
22 May 2019, 12:00 AM
CE Professor Rohan Benjankar is working to understand the effects of salt in local waterways may have on the ecosystem. See the full article...
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SIUE ASCE Student Chapter Participates at 2019 SciFest Engineering Expo
5 March 2019, 12:00 AM
The SIUE American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter participated in the 2019 Saint Louis Science Center SciFest Engineering Expo on Saturday, Feb. 23. Chapter members demonstrated a small shake table model with instrumentation and described to visitors fundamental structural engineering concepts that engineers need to consider when...
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Pourya Kargar Awarded the GeoConfluence Research Scholarship 2018 Award
14 November 2018, 12:00 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville graduate assistant Pourya Kargar has been awarded the 2018 GeoConfluence Research Scholarship. The St. Louis Chapter of the Geo-Institute of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) uses this scholarship to provide support for outstanding practical research in the field of geotechnical/geoenvironmental...
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CE Department's Siavash Zamiran Receives ASCE 2018 Young Engineer Award
19 October 2018, 12:00 AM
The St. Louis Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) presented its annual Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement to Siavash Zamiran, PhD, adjunct professor of civil engineering in the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of...
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SIUE Designated a Living Architecture Regional Center of Excellence
26 September 2018, 12:00 AM
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC), and its charitable arm, the Green Infrastructure Foundation (GIF) have named Southern Illinois University Edwardsville as a Living Architecture Regional Center of Excellence (LARCE). SIUE is one of four higher education institutions in the nation to receive the honorable designation....
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SIUE Alumnus Ed Grady Supports School of Engineering with Major Contribution
29 August 2018, 12:00 AM
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering’s (SOE) Student Design Center (SDC) will be filled with an entrepreneurial spirit as the center for engagement and creativity features the names of a distinguished alumnus, who has contributed a total of $1 million, and his two most inspiring educators. Civil engineering...
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