"The Wayne Gretzky of the Water Industry"
Dr. Peter Huck, Civil and Environmental Engineering professor and Water Institute Member, is celebrating 30 years as NSERC's Chair in Water Treatment. What an amazing accomplishment!!!
Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gUZaxdMW
Congratulations to MASc candidate Saida Rezaee who was awarded an American Concrete Institute (ACI) Foundation Fellowship (https://lnkd.in/g5vZpgZ2), which provides funds to attend two ACI conferences and a $10,000 USD educational stipend. The ACI Foundation supports students’ education, research, and innovation throughout the concrete industry to contribute to keeping the industry at the forefront of technological advances in material composition, design, and construction.
Congratulations are in order!!!
The Waterloo Steel Bridge Team competed at the Canadian national competition on May 11/12 and had an excellent result, placing 3rd nationally and 4th overall (there where 13 teams, including 3 international teams from Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Japan).
Congratulations again to this team - what an amazing job!!!
More details on the competition can be found here: https://www.cscecompetitions.ca/en/home/cnsbc/.
We are pleased to announce that the Scan Map Inspect (SMI) team, comprised of Max Midwinter, Zaid Abbas Al-Sabbag, and Rishabh Bajaj, PhD students in civil and environmental engineering, and supervised by Chul Min Yeum, has won the Engineer of the Future Fund
Did you ever wonder where the water ends up after it goes through the grate? When rain falls and snow melts on the UW campus, most of that water travels through pipes to Laurel Creek.
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department extends their congratulations to the winning team for the highly competitive 2023 Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) Expand Your Empire (EYE) Development Conference (9th annual edition).
Created and operated by our department! UW weather station has provided our community with local weather data since Feb 28th, 1998. Local media often highlights the station and the data the it collects. Private citizens, schools, industry and others have used and appreciate the data. UW courses also rely on the station for teaching and research.
Wayne Parker's ENVE 577 (Engineering for Solid Waste Management) class recently toured the Region of Waterloo's landfill and Materials Recovery Facility. Tracy Annett (UoW Civil alumnus) provided an excellent tour and discussed ongoing initiatives at the site.
Have a listen to this amazing interview with the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology, Nandita Basu.
Flood risk assessment is currently reliant on models and databases that were assembled with relatively coarse data about buildings and the landscape. New data-acquisition technologies offer the potential for a huge leap forward in resolution, but also introduce a new set of problems related to data management and the extraction of information. The focus of this project is the "micro" or property-scale characterization of building attributes and drainage details to support a novel flood modeling and risk assessment strategy. Data gathering technologies will include street level photography and lidar scans to obtain complete surveys of urban environments.