Civil & Environmental Engineering

National Engineers Week: February 20-26, 2011

Temple University College of Engineering Celebrates National Engineers Week February 20 – 26, 2011 Schedule of Events (Also see our Calendar and Facebook) Monday, February 21, 2011: Event: E-Week Kick-Off Breakfast Time: 8:00a.m – 9:30a.m Location: CEA 124 Description: Come celebrate the kick-off of National Engineers Week! Event: Electrical & Computer Engineering Demo #1: Augmented [...]

Engineers Week Keynote Speaker Dave Westerholm: Looking over the Deepwater Horizon

Event: Engineers Week Keynote Speaker: Looking over the Deepwater Horizon Speaker: Dave Westerholm, Director, Office of Response & Restoration, NOAA Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Time: 12:00p.m – 1:00p.m Location: CEA 126 Description: The Office of Response and Restoration was responsible for providing scientific and technical expertise during the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil [...]

The Economist reports on Dr Khoury’s Plastisoil

SOMETIMES a common solution can be found for two apparently unrelated problems. That may be true of repairing paths and other surfaces, and disposing of old plastic bottles. Naji Khoury and his colleagues at Temple University in Philadelphia have come up with a way of turning plastic waste into a cement-like substance that has advantages over [...]

Engineers Without Borders

A new student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders organization has been established in the College of Engineering, and we celebrated this great achievement over light refreshments, on Thursday November 18th 4:00-5:00 pm in Room 102 E&A. Admission was open to all students and faculty of the College of Engineering. Provost Dick Englert, Dean Keya Sadeghipour, Civil and Environmental Engineering Chairman, [...]

CEE Seminar: A Path to Fundamental Based Optimal Process Design in Environmental Engineering by Computer Experiments and Metamodels

Friday, October 29, 2010 12:00-1:00 PM Room 126 EA Building All are Invited to Attend Pizza will be served Charles N. Haas LD Betz Proessor of Environmental Engineering and Departent Head, Civil & Environmental Engineering Drexel University Abstract The optimal design of processes which have non-ideal fluid flow characteristics coupled with chemical, physical or biological [...]

Philadelphia Inquirer: At Temple, with an eye on the Gulf

From the Philadelphia Inquirer: One day the brownish plume in the Gulf of Mexico seems to grow. The next day it appears to have diminished. Balls of tar show up on shores 60 miles away. Unlike a surface spill with an immediately visible slick, the crude oil in the gulf is gushing forth deep underwater, [...]

Congratulations to the Senior Design Team!

Congratulations to the Senior Design Team for being selected into the final three for the presentation at the tough competition for Environmental and Water Resources Institute at the American Society of Civil Engineers. The competition will be in May 2010 in Providence, Rhode Island. The members are: Sachin Pandey, Rupal Patel, Jesse Minsky, and James Pollum. Advisors [...]

Engineering prof awarded $1.6 million grant from Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Engineering prof awarded $1.6 million grant from Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Rominder Suri has been awarded a $1.6 million grant by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to establish the Center for Pennsylvania Environmental Technologies for the Pharmaceutical Industry (PEPTI) in Temple’s College of Engineering.

Have you ever pondered the infra-structural elements of modern society that make life attractive, convenient, and comfortable? Enjoying spacious and comfortable living in a building, or an underground enclave; driving from a given location to virtually any region in the continent; and having plenty of clean water available for any domestic use we desire are some of the examples that the civil engineering profession offer today.

The building is designed by a civil engineer by conveying an array of structural elements that support the architectural spatial distribution.

The highway is designed by a civil engineer by creating a plane that adequately supports the weight and stresses of the vehicles in motion and of the centrifugal forces at the curves.

The water resources system is designed by a civil engineer that arranges for the water intake at an appropriate source, a water conveyance set that transports the water to a water treatment plant, and a waster distribution network that delivers the sanitized water to the urban user.

Engineering at Temple University College of Engineering