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Andrew Whittaker, a professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering and director of MCEER, was recently elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and ASCE's Structural Engineering Institute.

Teng Wu, assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, received the Alfred Noble prize, which recognizes a technical paper of exceptional merit whose first author is younger than 35.

Concrete beam designed by civil engineering students scores highly in structural efficiency, earning UB first place in the International UHPC-Beam Competition.

The prestigious award is presented by ASCE to "recognize outstanding contributions to the application of structural engineering research."

The awards come from SMART, a new initiative focusing on the future of manufacturing in Buffalo and beyond.

It’s often said that engineering is about problem-solving. While some of the problems engineers work to solve are what could be called inconveniences, there are others that affect people’s lives in dramatic ways.

When civil engineer Marc Edwards (BS ’86) warned Michigan state officials and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that lead-contaminated drinking water was poisoning the children of Flint, he expected them to declare an emergency. Instead, the regulators insisted there was no cause for alarm. That’s when Edwards, now frequently described as “The Hero of Flint,” realized he would have to take matters into his own hands.