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Texas CAEE professor Kasey Faust

In celebration of International Women's Day, Texas CAEE would like to highlight Kasey Faust.

Texas CAEE professor Todd Helwig

Todd Helwig, professor and director of the Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory, has won the 2022 Richard S. Fountain Award for his innovation and leadership within the steel industry.

Dr. Mary Jo Kirisits, environmental engineering professor for CAEE, has won the 2022 Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family K-16 Teaching Innovation Award. The award is reserved for faculty members in the Cockrell School of Engineering who has most impacted students in K-12 and beyond, encouraging enrollment into STEM education and empirically improving the educational experience across all grade levels.

Texas CAEE alumnus Ahmed Abdelrazaq

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that civil engineering alumnus Ahmad Abdelrazaq was among the 111 new members and 22 foreign members to be elected into the academy in 2022.

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.