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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.”

Ashray Saxena, a doctoral student in civil engineering, has been honored as one of the ten 2023 New Faces of Civil Engineering Professionals by ASCE. This award is given to highly influential engineers under 30 years old and within the first decade of their careers.

The University of Texas at Austin is leading a new multi-university transportation research hub that will focus on evolving travel behaviors in the wake of technological advances and ongoing shifts in work habits.

The National Academy of Engineering has elected Alumnus Fariborz Maseeh, who received a master’s degree in civil engineering in 2008 from UT Austin, to the Academy for 2023.

The American Institute of Steel Construction has awarded Dr. Michael Engelhardt the Geerhard Haaijer Award for Excellence in Education.

The Academy of Distinguished Alumni inducted two posthumous members for the first time in its history. The two members, T.U. Taylor and Ervin S. Perry, were renowned throughout the University as pioneers, each achieving a number of firsts in their individual careers. They were inducted on November 4, 2022 at the annual Academy Induction Ceremony and Banquet held at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center.

The Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering is excited to welcome its new members into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni for 2022.

Lance Manuel has been elected to serve a 3-year term, beginning November 1, on the Marine Board, which is a program unit under the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and provides independent, objective advice to inform policy with evidence, spark progress and innovation, and confront challenging issues for the benefit of society.