UC Irvine Civil & Environmental Engineering

Brian Casebolt’s Defense Information
Date: Thursday, June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM
Location: Anteater Instruction & Research Building (AIRB) 4040

Saurabh Singhal’s Defense Information
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Engineering Gateway 4171, CEE Avalon Conference Room

Congratulations to Mia Hennequin for being awarded the Undergraduate Student of the Year at the 2026 Engineering Awards from the Engineering Student Council. Mia is an exceptionally hardworking leader who exemplifies both academic dedication and genuine friendship. Balancing her demanding roles as President of the Society of Women Engineers and Vice President of Theme Park Engineering & Design, she consistently dedicates herself to uplifting her peers. Seamlessly juggling these major leadership commitments alongside an internship at the Irvine Ranch Water District, a part-time job, and rigorous coursework, her extraordinary resilience and passion make her a true inspiration.

Congratulations to Maya El-Ajouz for being awarded the Graduate Student of the Year at the 2026 Engineering Awards from the Engineering Student Council. Maya is an incredibly caring and driven student who has made a profound impact on the UCI engineering community. Alongside her impactful research in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department, she consistently makes positive change through her dedication to social activism. By spearheading the highly successful Repair Cafe and leading organizations like ESW, EWB, and CEERs, she empowers her peers to connect with important causes and use engineering for the greater good.

Congratulations to Brian Campos for being selected for the Samueli School of Engineering Pathway to the PhD Fellowship!

The ASCE UCI Environmental Team earned 1st place at the Environmental Design Competition placing higher than 13 other universities in the Southern California and Hawaii region! The competition was a part of the Pacific Southwest Symposium (PSWS) 2026 hosted at CSULA. This year's prompt was to design and construct a small-scale wetland system capable of treating reverse osmosis concentrate. The ASCE UCI Environmental Team was able to get in contact with the San Joaquin Marsh to obtain plants and with a grad student who was able to give actual reverse osmosis concentrate from OCWD. This helped contribute to the success of the project for water quality testing. Prior to PSWS, they had to create a design report and a poster. At PSWS, they poured simulated reverse osmosis concentrate through our system and water was tested by judges for parameters such as pH, total dissolved solids (TDS), dissolved oxygen (DO), and total organic carbon (TOC). They were judged based on design, operation, water quality, data analysis and presentation.

Inviting CEE graduate students to attend the Spring CEE Social Climate Town Hall on Friday (May 29th) from 3:00-4:30 PM in MDEA. The student leaders of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) at UCI and Reframing Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEER) are hosting this event to engage CEE students with their peers' anonymous survey responses and feedback on the safety, stability and support in the department. We plan to display the survey results and quotes around the auditorium for students to anonymously comment and to engage in discussion on the department climate with their peers in CEE. Food and drinks will be provided as well as a chance to win gift cards! Students can RSVP in the flyer below or at the following link: https://ow.ly/uQJE50Z4sMa

Prof. Matt Dean invites you to join our Fall 2026 ENGRCEE 15 "Intro to Energy Systems" course. Explore trends in the U.S. energy system. Course fulfills GE II: Science and Technology & GE III: Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Join us at the CEE Spring 2026 Seminar TODAY at 3PM! Machine Learning and Neural Networks for Porous Media and Materials: From Fluid Flow, Transport and Deformation to Learning the Governing Equations for Datasets by Muhammad Sahimi, Ph.D.