Tufts Civil and Environmental Engineering

11/08/2023

Join the Tufts ASCE Student Chapter and the Tufts Lawyers Association for a photo history of the Tufts campus. You’ll see images dating back to the 1800's, as well as learn about long forgotten buildings and structures that have come and gone. Register at https://bit.ly/461g35C

Join the Tufts ASCE Student Chapter and the Tufts Lawyers Association for a photo history of the Tufts campus. You’ll get to see images dating back to the 1800's, as well as learn about long forgotten buildings and structures that have come and gone in the past 171 years. Register here: https://bit.ly/461g35C

08/25/2023

Professor Babak Moaveni was recently named an ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Fellow, in recognition of his outstanding research, accomplishments, and service to the Institute. Congratulations to Professor Moaveni!

Professor Babak Moaveni of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University was elected to the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Membership grade of Fellow. Moaveni and the 2023 class of Fellows were recognized during the awards ceremony at the EMI Conference in July.

02/28/2023

Assistant Professor Jonathan Lamontagne and colleagues published an op-ed in the Boston Globe calling for a statewide approach to flood control infrastructure.

The state currently relies on a piecemeal approach, but cities and towns have limited ability to act effectively on their own. Most of their coastlines are privately owned and there are few options for raising funds locally to pay for costly flood control infrastructure.

08/08/2022

Earle F. Littleton Awards Awarded to seniors and graduate students in the CEE program who are active in professional, community or department affairs and show promise of becoming active and loyal alumni.

06/07/2022

At the upcoming BSCES 173rd Annual Awards Dinner, Research Professor John "Jack" Germaine of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will receive a 2022 Honorary Member Award in recognition of his career as an educator, researcher, and leader in experimental methods in geotechnical ana...

05/17/2022

Professor Emeritus Steven Chapra has been elected as a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The highest honor awarded by the ASCE, Distinguished Members are celebrated for attaining “eminence in some branch of engineering or in the arts and sciences, including th...

05/02/2022

Alumnus William "Bill" Edgerton, E70, was recently recognized by the Underground Construction Association (UCA) for his significant contributions to the industry and to McMillen Jacobs Associates, where he is a principal. UCA's Lifetime Achievement Award honors Edgerton's tremendous impact across hi...

04/06/2022

Environmental engineering major René LaPointe Jameson has received Tufts' Wendell Phillips Award! As the Wendell Phillips Speaker, René will deliver a speech during the Baccalaureate Ceremony in May. Congratulations to René! Learn more about her and about the Wendell Phillips Award: https://bit.ly/3uZRAgz

01/04/2022

Triple Jumbo James Kaklamanos earned his BS, MS, and PhD from Tufts CEE, and now he's teaching the next generation himself as an associate professor of civil engineering at Merrimack College. “Looking back, the decision to switch my major to civil engineering was one of the best decisions I have ever made,” he says. Read more: https://bit.ly/32LsdoJ

09/30/2021

Welcome Professors of the Practice Lucy Jen and Juan Pestana, and McDonnell Family Assistant Professor in Engineering Education Greses Pérez!

Four full-time faculty members and two part-time professors of the practice join Tufts School of Engineering this fall. These faculty members bring diverse expertise to fields ranging from engineering management to energy-efficient hardware to computer security.

03/29/2021

Water scarcity is often understood as a problem for regions experiencing drought, but a new study led by Tufts University researchers finds that not only can localized water shortages impact the global economy, but changes in global demand can have positive and negative ripple effects in river basin...

03/26/2021

In a study published in Nature Communications, new research from PhD student Flannery Dolan, Assistant Professor Jonathan Lamontagne, and colleagues shows that human economic activity can transmit and magnify climate change impacts.

Water scarcity is often understood as a problem for regions experiencing drought, but a new study led by Tufts University researchers finds that not only can localized water shortages impact the global economy, but changes in global demand can have positive and negative ripple effects in river basin...