| School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fourth-year civil engineering student Schayne Fox, left, said mentor Mary Shinners has become her go-to person for questions about everything from class schedules to preparing for the Fundamentals of Engineering exams. Schayne and Shinnners, who finished her bachelor's in civil engineering in 2014 and her master's in 2015, met this summer through the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's GOLD Mentoring Program. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)

Latest Field Notes podcast answers the question, what can you get out of mentoring?

19 September 2018

Amanda Wall Vandegrift, BSCE 2012, MSCE 2013, one of Mass Transit magazine's Top 40 Under 40 for 2018. (Photo Courtesy: InfraStrategies LLC)

‘TranspoNerd’ Vandegrift one of Mass Transit mag’s 40 Under 40

17 September 2018

Professor Kostas Konstantinidis, who will attend the 2018 Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine at the invitation of the National Academy of Science. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

National Academy invites Konstantinidis to join young leaders at Arab-American Frontiers symposium

13 September 2018

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's undergrad civil program is No. 2 in the nation and environmental is No. 4, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2019 survey (graphic includes photo of the Ramblin' Reck).

Extending history: Civil and environmental undergrad programs remain among nation’s elite program in new U.S. News rankings

10 September 2018

Ph.D. student and Sandia National Labs intern Rebecca Nylen kneels next to blasted steel cylinders, some of her handy work as a computational shock physicist. (Photo: Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories)

Shocking experiences keep Nylen going back for more

07 September 2018

Grad student returns to Sandia Labs each summer for love of community, mountains and explosions

Srinivas Peeta, the Frederick R. Dickerson Chair in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. (Photo: Luke Xinjing Xu)

Peeta delivers public transportation keynote at global mobility summit

06 September 2018

Power poles stretch into a bright sun with mist hovering just above the ground.

How much water is used to fulfill the energy needs of the US?

05 September 2018

Graduate student Cynthia Lee, left, and Assistant Professor Iris Tien with their first-place infrastructure paper aware at Resilience Week 2018. (Photo Courtesy: Iris Tien)

Tien, Lee win top paper award at Resilience Week 2018

04 September 2018

A photomicrographic view of Bacillus anthracis bacteria taken from heart blood and processed using a carbol-fuchsin stain. (Image Courtesy: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Genomic study of 412 anthrax strains provides new clues about why some strains are more virulent than others

29 August 2018

Associate Professor Yong Cho with his Distinguished Professor award from the Construction Industry Institute. (Photo Courtesy: Construction Industry Institute)

Cho is construction group’s distinguished professor of the year

28 August 2018