Congratulations to CEE Professors Scott Moura and Dimitrios Zekkos for receiving the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) 2022 Seed Awards! Their research proposals examine battery health degradation for electric off-road vehicles and using uncrewed aerial systems (UAVs) or drones to collect data and monitor methane emissions from landfills.
A big congratulations to Aqshems Nichols on being named the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) Student of the Year! CSCRS selected Nichols as its outstanding student as part of a U.S. Department of Transportation program.
Congratulations to the 11 UC Berkeley Engineering, CEE, ITS, and College of Environmental Design students who received Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) fellowships for the coming year!
Ph.D. students Camila and Mao test the behavior of isolated bridges with tall piers utilizing hybrid simulation in the Structures Lab in Davis Hall! A portion of the test is conducted physically, while the remainder is conducted numerically. Camila's research focuses on the intersection between the seismic behavior of bridges and hybrid simulation.
CEE Professor Paolo D'Odorico was recently featured in an article from The Daily Californian discussing UC Berkeley's history of engaging in research efforts with global professionals as a world-class higher education research institution
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $2.5 million to an interdisciplinary, multicampus University of California research team, partnering with Bay Area agencies and community organizations to help residents respond to natural disasters more efficiently.
Led by CEE Professor Kenichi Soga, the researchers will use the grant to create an interdisciplinary framework simulating wildfire evacuation methods in Bay Area communities, Marin County, and the city of Oakland in Alameda County.
CEE researchers co-authored a paper describing the process of developing a novel model quantifying PM2.5 exposure impacts from operating and maintaining paved roads in the San Francisco Bay Area. The paper was co-authored by Postdoctoral Associate Fiona Greer (Ph.D., CEE 2021), ECIC Ph.D. student Ahmad Bin Thaneya, and Professors Arpad Horvath and Joshua Apte in Environmental Research Letters.
CEE Professors Maria Laura Delle Monache and Alexandre M. Bayen discuss their research on the impact of AI-equipped vehicles on traffic jams and fuel consumption in a large-scale traffic experiment outside of Nashville through the Circles Consortium with Berkeley News:
In mid-October, Linqing Luo (Research Scientist at LBL) and James Xu (Ph.D. Student at CEE) helped install fiber optic cables for structural health monitoring of wind turbines in Oklahoma through their work at the Center for Smart Infrastructure. Using distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS), analyzers can detect the dynamic strain, which can help identify structural degradation. This technology can help to build innovative infrastructure within critical clean energy systems.
