Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Outstanding TA Awards

Categories: Awards, Students

Graduate teaching assistants play a vital role in mentoring students and supporting their academic success. This spring, Ph.D. candidates Jeremiah Adejube and Marcor Platt were recognized with the Department’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for their exceptional contributions to student learning. Through their dedication, accessibility, and passion for engineering education, both have left a lasting impression on […]

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August 5, 2026

Student Spotlight: Rupesh Uprety

Categories: Research, Structural Engineering, Students

For Rupesh Uprety, earthquake engineering isn’t just an academic discipline—it’s personal. When the 2015 Gorkha earthquake devastated his home country of Nepal, Uprety was a second-year undergraduate student. Witnessing the destruction inspired him to dedicate his career to designing safer, more resilient buildings for communities in earthquake-prone regions. Today, as a Ph.D. student at the […]

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August 4, 2026

University of Utah Hosts 2026 ASCE Intermountain Southwest Student Symposium

Categories: Students

The University of Utah was proud to host the 2026 ASCE Intermountain Southwest Student Symposium on campus in April, welcoming civil engineering students from across the region for a weekend of competition, collaboration, and innovation. One of the highlights of the symposium took place in the Union Ballroom, where students competed in the Timber-Strong Design […]

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May 18, 2026

Student Spotlight: Xuewen Luo

Categories: Awards, Students, Transportation

Xuewen Luo is helping shape the future of transportation through her research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. Her work, grounded in both technical rigor and a clear societal purpose, recently earned her recognition as a 2026 Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Utah Chapter Scholarship Winner, along with a $3,500 award honoring her […]

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May 11, 2026

Utah Engineering Team Takes First Place at Statewide Water Design Competition

Categories: Awards, Students, Water Resources

Civil & Environmental Engineering students from the University of Utah earned top honors at the 2026 Water Environment Association of Utah (WEAU) Student Design Competition, held during the WEAU Annual Conference in St. George on April 18. The team’s project focused on global water stewardship, developing innovative and sustainable water treatment solutions for the city […]

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April 18, 2026

“Ground Decoder” Wins First Place in National Hackathon

Categories: Geotech, Research, Students

Ph.D. student Ripon Chandra Malo is driven by a passion for advancing geotechnical engineering through data, computation, and innovation. His research focuses on granular material compaction and the application of artificial intelligence to improve how engineers interpret subsurface conditions—bridging the gap between complex geotechnical data and real-world decision-making. That work recently earned national recognition at […]

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March 27, 2026

Student Spotlight: Helen Salako

Categories: Environmental, Research, Students, Uncategorized

Ph.D. candidate Helen Salako’s research was recently featured as a Technical Article in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Utah Section’s March newsletter, highlighting innovative approaches to sustainable agriculture in arid environments. Her article, “Utah’s Soil Future: How Biosolids Support Healthier Soils and Sustainable Agriculture,” explores how biosolids—treated organic materials from wastewater—can be repurposed […]

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March 21, 2026

ITE Students Lead Road Safety Outreach

Categories: Students, Transportation

Members of the University of Utah’s Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter recently took transportation engineering to the racetrack to help promote safer roads through hands-on community outreach. The group hosted a road safety event at the Utah Motorsports Campus, engaging high school students participating in a go-karting program. The session, titled “Road Safety […]

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March 19, 2026

Student Spotlight: Arman Malekloo

Categories: Research, Students, Transportation

The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering is proud to announce that Arman Malekloo successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on November 11th, 2025, under the mentorship of Professor Cathy Liu. Arman has already begun the next chapter of his career at Narwhal Group, where he serves as an Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Analyst/Engineer. In this […]

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November 22, 2025

Shouzheng Pan Wins National Student Paper Award

Categories: Awards, Research, Students, Transportation

The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering is proud to congratulate Ph.D. candidate Shouzheng Pan on receiving the 2025 Daniel B. Fambro Student Paper Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). This national recognition is presented to just one student each year across all ITE districts, making it one of the most competitive and […]

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September 26, 2025