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The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has once again been named one of the nation’s top engineering schools.

There's a growing body of research showing that members of marginalized populations are more likely to be involved in severe or fatal crashes as pedestrians, and that disparity is on the rise.

The University of Texas at Austin was Abhigya Paudyal’s dream university for graduate school in the United States from the moment he earned his bachelor’s degree at home in Nepal.  

The Civil, Architectural and Environmental Department has announced the recipients of the 2023 Departmental Leadership Awards! These students and faculty have set themselves apart from their peers academically and as prominent members in our community. Congratulations to these deserving individuals!

An alliance of nine universities, three national labs and 37 companies will tackle one of the biggest hurdles to decarbonizing manufacturing: carbon dioxide emissions from generating process heat.

The International Bridge Conference (IBC) Executive Committee has selected Dr. Todd Helwig to receive the 2023 George S. Richardson Medal.  This award is given annually for a single, recent outstanding achievement in bridge engineering.  The selected achievement may consist of design, construction, research, or education. 

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Students from the University of Texas CAEE Seismic Design Team traveled to San Francisco, California in April to participate in the 2023 Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition. In this competition, which is hosted by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, student teams are required to submit RFPs in response to a prompt modeled around a real-world scenario. This year’s problem statement required students to design skybridges connecting two new building structures.

The Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department is once again in the top 10 graduate programs nationally according to the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings. Civil Engineering has ranked No.4, and Environmental Engineering is No.5.

Blair Johnson is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, entitled “Stratified Mixing in Sheared and Zero-Mean-Shear Turbulent Environments.”