====== Welcome to Civil Engineering at Case! ======
{{bingham.jpg?300 |Bingham Building }} The Department of Civil Engineering of the Case School of Engineering offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering with courses in almost all the traditional civil engineering subjects. The Bachelor of Science program in Civil Engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012 - telephone: (410) 347-7700. The graduate program offers the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Civil Engineering with a focus in structures, engineering mechanics, geotechnical and environmental engineering. An active research program gives the students opportunities to participate in projects related to design, analysis, and testing.
===== Apollo Relic Reveals its Secrets to Prof. Zeng ===== Dr Zeng explores Lunar Regolith scoop from Surveyor 3 spaceship as part of NASA's Regolisth Characterization [[http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/20jun_apollorelic.htm?list992847| NASA Story]] ===== Drs. Gasparini and Mullen visit Gerace Construction ===== Professor Gasparini and Mullen visited the Gerace Construciton Company in Midland MI. Mr. Gerace is an alumnus of the Department. Pictures of the Gerace precast yard with 100ft+ pre-stressed beams can be found at [[http://asce.case.edu/links/gerace.html| Pictures of Gerace Trip on Facebook]] ===== Dr. Gasparini gave one-week short course in Greece===== Professor Gasparini gave a one-week short course on stochastic process models in civil engineering at the University of Thessaly, Greece, on June 2-6, 2008. Professor Gasparini also presented a seminar on the design of structures for actively-controlled Maglev vehicles. ===== Picture of 2008 graduation party in Bingham ===== Professor Saada's 2008 Graduation pictures are at [[http://asce.case.edu/links/grad08.html| Pictures from 2008 graduation ]] ===== Mark Rokoff has won the Cleveland Technical Societies Council’s Technical Achievement Award ===== Mark Rokoff an Adjunct Assistant Professor has won the Cleveland Technical Societies Council’s Technical Achievement Award. Mark is also an alumnus of the Civil Engineering Department at Case Western Reserve University. Mark will receive his award at the 62nd annual achievement and awards event being held on Wednesday, May 14th at Executive Caterers at Landerhaven 6111 Landerhaven Dr. Cleveland, OH 44124. [[http://www.ctsc.org/ctsc/BanquetInfo2008.htm|Banquet Further Information]] ===== Case Alumni Mike Khoncarly named Civil Engineer of the Year ===== Mahmoud (Mike) Khoncarly, PhD, P.E., Managing Discipline Engineer for Civil/Structural/Architectural/Environmental Engineeiing at URS Washington Division was selected as the 2008 Civil Engineer of the Year by the Cleveland Section of ASCE. Mike will receive his award at the June 12, 2008 ASCE Dinner Meeting. ===== Ph.D. canditate Bart Zalewski will present a Seminar at the University of Akron ===== Bart Zalewski will give a talk on "Determining Worst Case Errors in Computing Solutions to Partial Differential Equations". The seminar will be in Auburn Science Building at the University of Akron on April 1 at 11:00.{{Akron-Zalewski.pdf |Abstract }} ===== Profs. Mullen, Hucklebridge and McGuffin-Cawley lead Roundtable Event ===== Profs. Mullen, Huckelbridge and McGuffin-Cawley let a round table discussion at the 56th Annual Design and Construction Conference on March 12, 2008. The session's focus was "Desiging and Constructing the Future Engineer." ===== Heather Oravec receives first place at the Poster Session durring the NASA's Future Forum at COSI ===== Congratulations to Heather Oravec, Case Western Reserve University, on winning first place for her research entitled: "Understanding the Mechanical Properties of Lunar Soil for the Study of Vehicle Mobility". ===== Prof. Gasparini to speak at the 8th Historic Bridges Conference ===== Prof. Gasparini will give the opening night talk "Why are 19th century stone arches relevant to 21th century structural engineers?" This National Conference is at Ohio State on April 28-29 2008. {{preliminaryprogram1.pdf |Program and Registration }} ===== Prof. Mullen and Bart Zalewski to speak at the Reliable Engineering Computing 2008 meeting ===== Mr. Zalewski will speak on "Worst Case Bounds on the Point-wise Discretization Error in Boundary Element Method for Elasticity Problem". Prof. Mullen will talk on "Static Analysis of Uncertain Structures Using Interval Eigenvalue Decomposition". Prof. Mullen is co-chair for the meeting held on Feb 20-22, 2008 in Savannah Ga. [[http://www.gtsav.gatech.edu/workshop/rec08/|Workshop web site]] ===== Engineers Week Activities ===== {{EWeek.pdf |E Week calendar }} ===== ASCE Student Chapter Upcoming Events ===== Meetings during the Provost Hour October 4th - George Palko/Joe Beno from Great Lakes, October 18th - Dan Kronenfeld/Scott Bindell from Gilbane October 18th - Constructor for a day October 25th - ECIV Town hall meeting ===== Congratulations to recent Ph.D. recipients who are starting academic careers ===== Min Jian Tao, Ph.D. - Civil Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Andrew T. Metzger, PhD, PE - Civil Engineering Department at University of Alaska - Fairbanks. Judy Wang, Ph.D. - Civil Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines - Golden Colorado. Medhi Modares, Ph.D. - Civil Engineering Department at Tuffs University - Boston. ===== Keynote Lecture to be given by Professor Panoskaltsis ========= Prof. Panoskaltsis has been invited to be a keynote speaker at the Conference "Plasticity 08", in Hawaii, January 2008. ===== Seminar at Tufts University - Professor Robert Mullen ========= Professor Mullen will present "Computing on Sets -Bounds on the Local Error in Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations in Engineering Analysis" at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University on Thursday, November 29th 2007 {{tufts-2007.pdf |powerpoint slides }} 3:30 Reception: Burden Lounge (Anderson Hall 108) 4:30-6:00 Lecture: Anderson Hall 312 ===== Outstanding Paper Award - Professor Dario Gasparini and Judith Wang ===== Professor Dario Gasparini and Judith Wang received the 2006 Outstanding Paper Award from the ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities for their paper:"Battery-Joralemon Street Tunnel," which appears in the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, February, 2006, p92-107. Judith Wang is a former NSF Fellow in the Department who is now Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. ===== Professor Gasparini Presentation at OTEC===== ==== Building on Our Past: Ohio's Historic Metal Bridges==== October 24, 2007 {{simmonsotec07.pdf|Simmons}} ===== Professor Bill X. Yu and X.B. Yu Presentation at OTEC ===== ==== "Real Time Bridge Scour Monitoring" ==== October 23, 2007 and ==== "Testing of Unknown Foundation: A Case Study with Comparison of Different NDT Methods" by Professor Bill X. Yu ==== October 24, 2007 ===== 2007 Student Award winners ===== [[prizes|2007 Civil Engineering Department Award Winners]] {{chad_fusco_first_ place_technical_paper.pdf}} ===== Archive News ==== [[newsarchive| News and Event Archive ]]