Professor Kenichi Soga received ASCE Ralph B. Peck Award this year and delivered the Ralph B. Peck Lecture at Geo-Congress 2026 in Salt Lake City. Ralph B. Peck Lecture is one of the notable invited lectures in geotechnical engineering, recognizing major contributions to the field and providing a platform for leading researchers to share perspectives on engineering practice, innovation, and future challenges.

Researchers from UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design (CED) Department of Architecture and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's (CEE) Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials (SEMM) program have received the 2025 Tsuboi Award from the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) for the most outstanding paper presented at the IASS Annual Symposium in México City.

Professor Amy Pickering contributes to Environmental Science & Technology's 60th anniversary special issue, sharing her opinions in a viewpoint entitled, “A New Era for Global Environmental Surveillance of Infectious Disease,” in which she argues that now is the time to invest in leveraging new molecular biology methods to track population trends in disease through environmental sampling. 

Berkeley Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) Assistant Professor Luis Ceferino has received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project, “CAREER: A Computational Framework for Rare-Event Resilience Planning and Education in Infrastructure Systems.” The NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program is one of the foundation’s hi

A heartfelt congratulations to our graduating Civil and Environmental and Engineering Science students, your hard work has truly laid the foundation for this moment.

To best accommodate each class year, commencement will be celebrated with separate ceremonies for bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree candidates. Full details can be found on the Engineering Commencement page. 

Zhe Fu, Ph.D. Candidate in Transportation Engineering and M.S. Candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, has been named the 2026 Outstanding Graduate Peer Mentor Award recipient. Advised by Professor Alexandre Bayen at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab, her work advances intelligent control and modeling for complex cyber-physical systems, with real-world impact in large-scale autonomous vehicle experiments.

Congratulations, Zhe Fu!

The University of California, Berkeley continues to lead at the forefront of innovation and impact, earning the #1 ranking in both Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering graduate programs in the latest rankings released by U.S. News & World Report.

Berkeley CEE is proud to share that Professor Arpad Horvath has been elected a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the nation’s oldest engineering society, with more than 160,000 members across 177 countries. Distinguished Member is the highest honor bestowed on civil engineers, recognizing the most accomplished individuals in the profession who reflect the values of innovation and practice. Each year, only up to 12 new members are elected to this prestigious rank.

A startup emerging from the research group of Kenichi Soga, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, has received a $1.23 million award from the National Science Foundation through its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program.