The University of Utah is taking a leading role in advancing smart mobility and rail safety with the launch of a new $1.5 million Odometry Lab, funded by the Utah Legislature in 2025. Led by CvEEN faculty Drs. Cathy Liu, Xuan (Peter) Zhu, and Chenxi Liu, the lab is a cross-disciplinary collaboration that unites engineering faculty, students, and […]
Read MoreWe’re proud to announce that a team from the University of Utah’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has received the Best Poster Paper Award at the International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, held at Stanford University from September 9–11, 2025. The award-winning paper, titled “Locating crack tip in Mode-I fracture tests of engineered wood by acoustic emission and […]
Read MoreDesigning effective pavements—an essential infrastructure component used extensively—requires detailed information about material properties. Unfortunately, gathering this information involves complex, time-consuming tests. As a result, engineers frequently forego these tests and instead rely on average or default values, which might not accurately reflect the properties of the materials used. This can lead to incorrect predictions about […]
Read MoreCivil & Environmental Engineering (CvEEN) professor Dr. Chris Pantelides’s research is revolutionizing wood construction. Sitting in his office in the Meldrum Civil Engineering Building, Dr. Pantelides holds up a block of composite wood, about 12 inches long and 10 inches wide, and smiles. “What you’re looking at here is the future,” he says. The deceptively simple […]
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