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.
The UC Berkeley GeoSystems program hosted its sixth annual Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium last Friday! This event gives current Ph.D. students and Research Associates the opportunity to share their research with the geotechnical engineering industry and fellow researchers.
On Wednesday, the UC Berkeley Society of Women Engineers (SWE) hosted Mini University! This one-day free event introduces underserved high school students to the college environment and research involved in pursuing STEM careers. Undergraduate students from SWE led lab tours for high-school students to help them learn about the different engineering disciplines available and the cutting-edge research happening on campus.
This semester, students in CE 167: Engineering Project Management completed seven site visits hosted by the companies Webcor, Suffolk, and West Builders. All visits took place in Berkeley and Oakland and happened while construction projects were in progress. These visits proved to be valuable learning experiences for students, who had a great time exploring the sites and getting a good feel for the construction industry.
Attention CEE students!
On October 14, CE112 students went to the Center for Smart Infrastructure at Richmond Field Station to observe a pipeline failure test in a lecture by Professor Kenichi Soga and East Bay Municipal Utility District staff. Soga adds that as part of the test, students observed the failure of the pipeline to understand the mechanism behind how the pipeline works and get to know the details.
Last Friday, students from CE 249, an "Experimental Methods in Structural Engineering Class" taught by Professor Khalid M. Mosalam, conducted a test on the sixth-floor outdoor bridge of Davis Hall to investigate the behavior of the structure. They evaluated the bridge's condition at different intervals using a computer to get the frequency data points and other measures.
Dr. Ioanna Kavvada, who just graduated from the ECIC program (and was advised by Professors Arpad Horvath and Scott Moura), has won the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's 2023 EERI Annual Graduate Student Paper Competition for the article "Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Spatially Distributed Infrastructure Considering the Correlation of Spectral Acceleration Across Spectral Periods," published in Earthquake Spectra with Professors Moura, Horvath, and Abrahamson.
