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Professor Colleen E. Bronner Receives the ASEE PSW Outstanding Teaching Award We want to congratulate Professor Colleen E. Bronner for receiving the PSW Outstanding Teaching Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

Prof. Colleen Bronner won the 2024 American Society of Engineering Eductation Pacific Southwest Section's Teaching Award.

UC Davis College of Engineering's incredible faculty and students were honored with four of the five top awards presented at the American Society for Engineering and Education Pacific Southwest Section that took place in April!

Read more about the trailblazers here: https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/faculty-and-students-honored-share-knowledge-engineering-education-conference



Image Description: UC Davis staff and students stand with their awards from the ASEE PSW conference

Check out the August/September 2023 edition of ASCE's Geostrata, featuring the Center for Geotechnical Modeling and contributions from CEE Faculty Alejandro Martinez, Jason Dejong, Ross Boulanger, and Dan Wilson.

Cover AUGUST // SEPTEMBER 2023 BIO-MEDIATED AND BIO-INSPIRED GEOTECHNICS Proudly published by the Geo-Institute of ASCE

Congratulations to CEE Professor Sashi Kunnath for being elected as a Distinguished Member of ASCE. He is one of only 12 inductees awarded this title this year out of a total membership of 143,000. Here are more details about the honor -

https://www.asce.org/career-growth/awards-and-honors/distinguished-members

He now joins two other ASCE Distinguished Members in our department, Professor Jay Lund and Professor Levent Kavvas.

Distinguished Members Distinguished Membership is the highest honor ASCE can bestow. It is reserved for civil engineers who are either ASCE Members or Fellows.

Congratulations to CEE graduate Berkley Anderson on being selected to receive the American Water Works Association's Second Place 2023 Academic Achievement Award for the best Masters Thesis. AWWA is the main professional society covering drinking water treatment and this is a competitive award category. The award will be presented at the AWWA Annual Conference and Exposition in Toronto, June 11-14, 2023, during the plenary session on Monday, June 12.

Congratulations to CEE Professor Alissa Kendall for her landmark study on how to shrink the lithium footprint of electrifying the transportation sector! Read it here:

More Mobility Less Mining Reducing the lithium-intensity of zero emissions transportation.

Congratulations to CEE Professor Michele Barbato and his research group members for these recently received awards!

New Awards Received by Dr. Michele Barbato's Research Group Members Professor Michele Barbato's research group recently received the following two rewards for their research.

Our new Environmental Engineering major is officially ABET accredited!

Congratulations to CEE PhD student Diogo Zignago and Professor Michele Barbato who coauthored the paper “Reliability-Based Calibration of New Design Procedure for Reinforced Concrete Columns under Simultaneous Confinement by Fiber-Reinforced Polymers and Steel” which has been selected as Editor’s Choice for 2022’s 3rd issue of the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction. Check it out here:

Reliability-Based Calibration of New Design Procedure for Reinforced Concrete Columns under Simultaneous Confinement by Fiber-Reinforced Polymers and Steel | Journal of Composites for Construction | Vol 26, No 3 Abstract External confinement of reinforced concrete (RC) columns with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) jackets and/or wraps is a technique extensively used for strengthening and retrofit of structurally deficient columns. The confinement effect produced by ...

Professor Jay Lund is featured in this new Washington Post article on California droughts. Check it out here!

Analysis | How California Can Survive Another Historic Drought Farms will get smaller, urban areas will get more efficient, and the state’s $3 trillion economy will cushion the blow.

CEE Professor Chris Cappa is featured in a new CNN article on masking while traveling. Check it out here!

Is wearing a mask while traveling still helpful if you're the only one? The Biden administration's mask requirements for airplanes and other mass transit are no longer in effect during a review of a ruling by a federal judge in Florida that struck down the order. Some travelers welcomed Monday's ruling, but others have decided to keep their masks on.