Students Recognized By ASCE NCS

CEIE Chair Dr. Michael Bronzini Testifies before the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee

The Highways and Transit Subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee had its first hearing under the realigned U.S. Congress on Wednesday, January 24. This was the first hearing to be held on the subject of the future of the U.S. surface transportation system, in preparation for the next reauthorization of the surface transportation program. After opening statements by the subcommittee Chairman and Ranking Member and several subcommittee members, the opening witness was U.S. DOT Undersecretary of Transportation for Policy Jeff Shane. He was followed by two members of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission that was established in the most recent reauthorization legislation. Dr. Bronzini was invited to testify on a panel that also included noted transportation consultant Alan Pisarski, and national highway congestion expert Dr. Tim Lomax of Texas A&M University. Dr. Bronzini's testimony focused on the importance of preserving the federal-state-local government partnership that plans, builds, and operates our transportation system, and on the need for much better data on system performance.

Posted Jan. 30, 2007

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

The ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering is the premier journal in the area of computing.  It was established about 23 years ago and it specializes in publishing the leading edge research papers dealing with novel computing methods, tools, and experimental results related to computing.  It receives submissions from the entire world and is well known not only in this country, but also in Europe, Asia, Africa, etc.

Recently, Research Assistant Professor in our Department, Dr. Rafal Kicinger became an Associate Editor.  Since Associate Professor Mohan Venigalla has been an Associate Editor for the last four years, our Department became the only Civil Engineering Department in this country having two faculty members serving as Associate Editors for this prestigious journal.  This is another proof of the unique nature of our Department and of the quality of our computing-related research. Also, Dr. Kicinger became the youngest Associate Editor in the history of this Journal. 

Congratulations to Dr. Venigalla and Dr. Kicinger for their distinguished professional service and for bringing to our Department recognition associated with serving on the editorial boards of prestigious research journals.

NSF Workshop in Istanbul, Turkey.

In October, 2006, Dr. T. Arciszewski attended an international NSF workshop on "Reforming Civil Engineering Education" in Istanbul, Turkey. He presented an invited talk on "Civil Engineering Crisis" and made a presentation on "The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing".

Professor Arciszewski receives an award in Europe.

Recently, (June 25-30, 2006) Professor Arciszewski attended the International Workshop on "Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture" organized by the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE). He was a member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the workshop and was an invited speaker presenting a paper (with Joanna Cornell) on "Bio-inspiration: Learning Creative Design Principia."
During the General Assembly of the EG-ICE, Professor Arciszewski was given the first "The Intelligent Computing in Engineering Award 2006” for “outstanding efforts in international collaboration." This award is directly related to Dr. Arciszewski's activities as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing.

Congratulations to the Class of 2006

Congratulations to the CEIE Class of 2006. Eighteen students received their B.S. degree in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering and 4 received their M.S.