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12/18/2025

🎉 .ite triumphed at the Southern California ITE Student Traffic Bowl at the end of October, taking home the championship for the third time since 2017. The competition at Cal Poly Pomona brought together five student chapters (UC Irvine, CalState Fullerton, CalState Long Beach, CalPoly Pomona, USC) across two high energy semifinals and a nail-biter final round. Students Andrew Keefer, Tyler Milliren, and Trevor Wong powered through every question and clinched the win. Huge congratulations to the team! 🏆

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12/16/2025

🎉 USC Sonny Astani Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering Professor Amin Ghadami was selected as a Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering by the ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers). This prestigious honor recognizes early-career researchers in mechanical engineering who have achieved notable distinction in their scholarship, particularly through competitive career and young investigator awards. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ghadami on his latest achievement!

12/12/2025

USC CEE's Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis invented buildings. We're celebrating three decades since Professor Behrokh "Berok" Khoshnevis conceived contour crafting – the groundbreaking technology that pioneered the entire field of large-scale 3D construction printing and forever changed how we think about building our world. This is the story of how one professor at USC changed the future of how humanity builds.

12/11/2025

The flagship graduate course "Potable Water Reuse (ENE 599)" from the USC ReWater Center and USC CEE is next offered by Dr. Amy Childress in Fall 2026. This course is a unique opportunity for students to learn from and interact with industry leaders in the field of water reuse. Watch the video below to learn more about this course offered only at USC Viterbi School of Engineering!

Past lectures given by Daniel Gerrity from Southern Nevada Water Authority, Han Gu, PhD from Orange County Water District, Charles Bott and Germano M. Salazar-Benites from HAMPTON ROADS SANITATION DISTRICT INC, Kim Shin Lim from PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency, Billy Raseman, PhD, PE from HydroDigital, Shane Snyder from Georgia Institute of Technology, Sara Katz from Katz & Associates, Brian Bernados retired from the CA State Water Resources Control Board, and Shane Trussell and Brian Pecson from Trussell.

12/09/2025

🎉 USC CEE is thrilled to announce that transportation graduate student Coey Lin was recognized with the 11th AECOM Annual WTS-LA Scholarship Award! Coey shared gratitude to AECOM Transportation for supporting her academic journey and offering valuable exposure to real-world projects. Celebrating students like Coey reminds us why investing in the next generation matters!

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12/03/2025

Yesterday we celebrated our exceptional USC CEE student services advisors before they move on to a new chapter in their lives. We shared our heartfelt thanks for the friendships we've made over the years, fun memories of department escapades, and abundance of laughter that rang through our offices. Many tears were shed as farewells and hugs came from our faculty, students, and staff. Geraldine Perry, Maral Poladian, Emily Millard, and Christine Hsieh have all made such an impact in our lives, and they are much loved by the USC CEE family. We will miss you all! ❤️

12/02/2025

USC CEE was proud to host the USC CMAA 30th Annual Emami Symposium this month, led by CMAA's dedicated Symposium Co-Chairs, Millanna Cienna Biller and Jason Vasques. As Viterbi’s largest student-run networking event, the symposium brought students and industry leaders together for an evening of networking with more than 20 companies in attendance.

Speakers from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Clark Construction Group, and Aurora Development shared valuable insights on the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Geffen Galleries, highlighting the vision and design behind this landmark project. We appreciate the time and expertise they brought to our community.

The symposium also recognized academic excellence by awarding $40,000 in scholarships to outstanding CMAA members, bringing total scholarships awarded to more than 1 million dollars.

Thank you to the company representatives who attended our symposium, as well as our students, whose hard work makes this event possible. We are especially grateful to our faculty advisor Hank Koffman, our faculty, and Jonathan Emami for their leadership and support in making this year’s symposium exceptional.

11/26/2025

🦃 From our USC CEE family to yours, we wish you a very happy Thanksgiving! Our faculty, staff, and students celebrated Thanksgiving with a humble department potluck that turned into a big feast. Thank you to everyone who generously brought a dish to share. We are thankful for our family! ❤️

11/25/2025

The results are in! USC CEE wrapped up our Innovate X LA: Das Family Design Day and Buildathon with a night of sharp final presentations last Friday. Twelve teams took the stage and tackled some of Los Angeles’ toughest challenges, from caregiving support to traffic congestion. The creativity was phenomenal, and the solutions were bold. Special thanks to Colin Mangham, Daniel Druhora and Trina Gregory for taking time out of their busy schedules to be our judges for the evening. Shoutout to our students Mitchell Kirby and Ava Bergan who spent endless hours planning and making this event happen.

🏆 Please join us in congratulating our three winning teams:
1st Place: Bus'In
2nd Place: Orca
3rd Place: Circuit Prior

The Design Day & Buildathon may be over, but the larger Das Family Student Competition is just starting! Sign up to join the competition at link in bio!

11/24/2025

Please join USC CEE in congratulating our students Sophia Antevy and Lisa Staugaard on receiving scholarships from the Southern California Water Utilities Association (SCWUA). Sophie and Lisa were both presented with their giant checks at the SCWUA annual awards luncheon last week.

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11/21/2025

USC CEE had its first ever Innovate X LA: Design Day & Buildathon kickoff last night to launch into a 24-hour sprint that will culminate in today’s final team presentations. We have creative thinkers working hard to turn ambitious ideas into real solutions for Los Angeles. Please join us TONIGHT, November 21st, at 5:00 PM, in the Ginsburg Hall Auditorium, to hear which teams won first, second, and third place in the buildathon! Food will be provided after the awards ceremony.

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11/20/2025

Don't forget to join USC CEE TONIGHT for our Innovate X LA: Design Day and Buildathon in RTH 526! The kickoff will begin at 5:00 PM, and the event will run for 24 hours until the final presentations are completed tomorrow afternoon. Food will be provided. Let's fire up those creative minds and develop some big ideas into positive solutions for Los Angeles! All USC students are welcome, regardless of major.

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