Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at UD

Exciting news! We have launched a UD CCEE Department LinkedIn page to help get the word out about the wonderful things we are doing. But we need your help. Please follow us on LinkedIn!

Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at UD | LinkedIn Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at UD | 79 followers on LinkedIn. The Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering and offer undergraduate degrees in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Construction Engineering and Management. We specialize in res...

Earl “Rusty” Lee
Senior researcher and associate professor emeritus

The Last Lecture: The Journey, The Impacts and The Future
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 | 4-6 p.m.
In person: Mitchell Hall
Livestream: https://sites.udel.edu/udlive
Reception to follow in Mitchell Hall

Register to attend by April 28: https://forms.gle/7Z68oS4W79osMj5AA

Congratulations to our PhD students who recently presented their research at the 2025 Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
https://www.xcdsystem.com/sra/program/4CKG3iU/index.cfm?pgid=2812
Annual Meeting in Washington, DC!
Christopher Alegbeleye, a PhD student and Research Assistant affiliated with the Disaster Research Center, presented his research on hurricane damage and loss risk modeling for manufactured housing. His work applies quantitative, data-driven methods to better understand and reduce risk for manufactured housing, which is disproportionately vulnerable to hurricane hazards.
Utkarsh Gang presented a data-driven modeling study of coupled human–infrastructure systems, examining how social vulnerability and infrastructure disruptions affect household access to critical resources during flood events.
Xiao Qian shared a framework that links households to individual buildings using synthetic population modeling, machine learning, and optimization, enabling household-level disaster risk and impact assessment.
Saurabh Mohite presented a predictive, graph-based framework for assessing disruptions to dialysis access during disasters, integrating mobility data, facility characteristics, and social vulnerability to support equitable healthcare planning.
The students were accompanied by Professor Shanghai D**g and Postdoctoral Researcher Jinya Wang, who also presented her work and actively engaged in discussions throughout the conference.
We are proud of our students and faculty for representing the department and contributing to important conversations in risk analysis, hazard resilience and disaster planning.

Some wonderful news from this year’s ASC Region 1 Competition, in Albany, NY: our team earned 2nd place, finishing just under 1% behind the winning team. The margin was exceptionally close, and the students delivered an outstanding performance. This is truly a historic moment for the UD CEM program!

Looking ahead, we are aiming even higher. Our goal is to secure first place next year, and we plan to field multiple teams across various competition tracks, creating even more opportunities for our students and the department.

Sophomore's Erik Papp, Patric Donato, Jan Gierej and Luke Ryan. Junior, Braedan Singley and Senior, John Leslie. Along with Prof. Ashish Asutosh, Prof. Ri Na and CEM Director, Prof. Aziz Banawi.

https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2025/october/civil-construction-environmental-engineering-collaboration-space/

Making Space | UDaily Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering unveils renovated collaboration space for students

https://engr.udel.edu/news/2025/10/ud-masters-candidate-wins-prestigious-environmental-engineering-scholarship/

UD master’s candidate wins prestigious environmental engineering scholarship | UD College of Engineering Tawsif Sultan Raaz, a master’s candidate in civil engineering at the University of Delaware College of Engineering, has been named the 2025 Robert P. Stearns/SCS Engineers Scholar. Established in honor of environmental engineer Robert P. Stearns and the company he co-founded, the scholarship is aw...

https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2025/september/hailey-mack-miss-delaware-2025/

Crowning achievement | UDaily Civil engineering major Hailey Mack to represent the First State at Miss America while championing women in STEM

2025 AEESP Award for Outstanding Teaching in Environmental Engineering & Science

Jennie Saxe, Associate Professor

Congratulations Jennie! You truly are remarkable.

Commencement 2025

2025 Hooding Ceremony