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Texas CAEE professor Lance Manuel

Lance Manuel, CAEE faculty member and associate chair, is one of the 6 new fellows from UT Austin that has been elected into the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society.

Texas CAEE alumnus Sam Kumar and guests at the CEPM naming event

On December 10, the Cockrell School of Engineering hosted a celebratory event to commemorate the naming of the Sam and Hema Kumar Construction Engineering and Project Management Program (CEPM) in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering.

UT Tower at sunset on UT Austin campus

The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering is once again ranked in the top ten in the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report, strengthening the department's position as one of the nation’s best undergraduate engineering programs.

Texas CAEE professor Matthew Hebdon

Matthew Hebdon is the department's new Structural Engineering associate professor.

Texas CAEE professor Paola Passalacqua

In a new commentary published in Earth’s Future, a national team of experts examines the ongoing conflict between stability and sustainability in heavily populated river deltas, such as the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna in India/Bangladesh and the Mississippi in the U.S., between balancing the needs of the river itself and the people living and working near it.

Texas CAEE assistant professor Javad Mohammadi

Javad Mohammadi joins the CAEE department as the new Building Energy and Environments assistant professor.

Sink holes and liquefaction on roads in Christchurch, New Zealand after 2011 earthquake

New framework developed by UT Austin engineers applies big data, supercomputing to soil liquefaction

The Cockrell School of Engineering awarded Dr. Oguzhan Bayrak the Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award for the 2020 – 2021 academic year. This award was establish in 1977 to recognize a faculty member who has made significant contributions in furthering the profession of engineering. 

UT tower

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that James Barnard, alumnus of the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, has been elected to the prestigious academy.