Carnegie Mellon University Civil and Environmental Engineering

10/14/2026

Congratulations to Katherine Flanigan who was honored for her endowed professorship at Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering!

Katherine Flanigan is now the Henry Posner, Anne Molloy, and Robert and Christine Pietrandrea Career Development Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research turns traditional infrastructure and urban systems into cyber-physical systems that can sense, compute, and respond. The goal is infrastructure that performs better, holds up under stress, and serves everyone who depends on it.

Congratulations Katherine!

10/02/2026

Our students took their wastewater design work all the way to New Orleans 🎺

A team of students from Carnegie Mellon University Civil and Environmental Engineering competed in the Water Environment Federation (WEF) Student Design Competition last week.

The team, composed of Nurshinta B., Joseph Kurincak, Rex Bone, and Brian Spradley, submitted a project they started last spring in a course taught by Joe Moore. In this course, they were additionally supported by the Pennsylvania Water Environment Association (PWEA) and Jacobs Solutions Inc. engineer and CMU CEE alum Vishal Vaidyanathan. The team kept the work going through the summer and into the fall semester to get it ready for the competition.

Beyond the competition, the students joined a community service day, connected with fellow water professionals at a social on Bourbon Street, and met employers at an exclusive job fair. Great work team!

09/30/2026

In September, several employers came to Civil & Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University to meet our students in person.

• Wade Trim took over our student lounge to talk careers with students.
• Before the STEM Career Fair, we hosted a breakfast mixer with Clark Construction Group, Kimley-Horn, Benesch, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., and the New York State Department of Transportation.
• The New York State Department of Transportation came back for an info session we co-hosted with the CMU Transportation Club.
• The Lane Construction Corporation presented at our department seminar, then stayed for a lounge takeover.

Thank you to every partner who spent time with our students this month. If you're considering civil and environmental engineering at CMU, this is what the fall semester looks like here!

09/11/2026

Last week was filled with hands on learning for CEE Projects! 🏭🔥🦺 Students in Professor Moore's course got an up-close look at the boiler plant that heats CMU and much of Oakland, and a real-world view of the infrastructure they study in class. Thank you to our students, professional mentors, and Bellefield Boiler Plant staff who joined us for the tour!

08/20/2026

Today kicked off our graduate student orientation - welcome to campus! Though it was a rainy morning, students braved the Pittsburgh weather and explored campus through a CEE scavenger hunt.

08/06/2026

Civil and environmental engineering researchers are partnering with local communities across Allegheny County to develop practical strategies for deploying green infrastructure and strengthening the region’s resilience against extreme weather.

08/04/2026

Please join us in congratulating three CEE professors on their 2026 Engineering faculty awards:

Peter Adams received the Distinguished Professor of Engineering Award.
Kaushik Dayal received the Outstanding Mentoring Award.
Katherine Flanigan received the Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award.

Congratulations, Peter, Kaushik, and Katherine!

We are excited to recognize our 2026 Engineering faculty award winners! Congratulations to Peter Adams, Tzahi (Itzhaq) Cohen-Karni, Keith Cook, Kaushik Dayal, Katherine Flanigan, Noelia Grande Gutiérrez, Valerie Karplus, P. Chris Pistorius, Patrick Tague, and Kathryn Whitehead!

07/27/2026

Last week, American Society of Civil Engineers and Carnegie Mellon University Civil and Environmental Engineering hosted 24 engineering educators from across the country for six intensive days of teaching seminars, demo classes, learning labs, and hands-on practice teaching, all designed to help faculty become better, more effective teachers.

From the first team-building brunch to the final graduation ceremony, this ExCEEd cohort brought it. They showed up early, leaned into feedback after every practice class, brought genuinely great ideas to each seminar, and still had energy left to celebrate together at Schenley Park on their last night.

Thank you to our mentors and assistant mentors, who spent long days coaching six teams through seminars on everything from questioning techniques to building rapport to active learning, Fethiye Ozis and Geena Provenzano for coordinating the program and hosting participants and staff, and to Dion Coward and for continuing to invest in civil engineering education.

To this year's participants: you pushed yourselves and got out of your comfort zone because you clearly deeply love this profession. We hope you leave CMU remembering exactly why you started in the first place: because your heart is in the teaching. ❤️

07/23/2026

Three Carnegie Mellon University Civil and Environmental Engineering students just picked up national recognition from the Structural Engineers Foundation.

• Dora Bowen-Glazeroff, CivE/ CMU Engineering and Public Policy class of 2028, received the SEF Undergraduate Scholarship
• Aurora Fuchs, CivE class of 2026, received the SEF Diversity Scholarship
• Jose Echeverria Nufio, CivE class of 2026, received the Rubinos-Mesia Award

SEF's scholarships go to students shaping the next generation of structural engineering — proud to see three of our own on that list this year!

07/22/2026

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) ExCEEd Teaching Workshop kicked off this week at Carnegie Mellon University.

Department Head Gregory Lowry and Emeritus Department Head David Dzombak welcomed everyone to open things up, and from there the group dove right into a full week of work on teaching.

This year's cohort includes 36 faculty from across the country - from Alaska and Hawaii to Illinois and Georgia - working in structures, geotech, sustainability, and construction management. Over the course of the week they'll dig into course design, instruction techniques, and how to assess student learning effectively.

At the kickoff, we asked participants to sum up their teaching style in one word. A few of the answers:
Engaging • Exciting • Passionate
Impactful • Memorable • Motivating
Caring • Challenging • Collaborative

Educators investing in becoming better educators. We are excited to see what the week ahead holds!