Student Updates | Civil and Environmental Engineering

A group of students and mentors pose together indoors in front of a presentation screen displaying “CITRIS Aviation Prize Awards – Atech Award for Most Innovative Design for Air Mobility.” (Photo Credit: Amanda Cairo/Berkeley ITS)

ITS Students Win Most Innovative Design Award at 2025 CITRIS Aviation Prize Competition

A group photo from the Cal ASCE Spring Banquet hosted on April 28th at the Berkeley Faculty Club. (Photo Credit: Sarah Shaadi Saadeh)

ASCE Spring Banquet Honored CEE Undergraduates with Scholarships and Awards

A photo collage of the 2025 Eno Fellows (from left to right): CEE Ph.D. student Zhe Fu, CEE Ph.D. student Linda Lim, and City & Regional Planning Ph.D. student Michael Montilla.

Congratulations to the 2025 Eno Leadership Development Conference Fellows!

A photo collage with headshots of 2025 ITS students of the year (from left to right): Ziad Yassine (Ph.D. Student of the Year), Ameen DaCosta (Masters Student of the Year), and Jacob Champlin (Masters Student of the Year).

Congratulations to the 2025 ITS Students of the Year!

A photo collage of CEE 2024–2025 Outstanding GSI Awards awardees (from top left to bottom left clock-wise): M.S. student Madison Callan, M.S. student Treves Li, Ph.D. student Satuk Bugrahan Sari, and postdoctoral researcher Bodhinanda Chandra.

GeoSystems Students Honored with 2024–2025 Outstanding GSI Awards

Members of the Guinness World Record–setting team for the fastest speed run across BART stations—Ameen DaCosta, Jacob Champlain, Winnie Zhuang, and Paul Liu—receive their official certificates (Photo/Caption Credit: Amanda Cairo/Berkeley ITS).

TRANSOC Mixer Brings Together Alumni, Students, and Professionals

Headshots of CEE Ph.D. candidates Zhe Fu (left) and Jaewon Saw (right), smiling in professional attire.

Zhe Fu Receives Second Place, Jaewon Saw Competes in UC Berkeley Grad Slam

A group photo of the Berkeley CEE delegation at the 2025 EMI Objective Resilience Student Paper-Presentation Competition. From left to right: Kexun Li, Prateek Arora (1st place winner), Xiaolei Chu (2nd place winner), and CEE Assistant Professor Luis Ceferino. (Photo Credit: Luis Ceferino)

Berkeley CEE Students Excel at 2025 EMI Objective Resilience Competition

Carlos Quezada works on a tight deadline with a fellow team member at a construction competition involving students from some 20 schools in the western U.S. Quezada was inspired to a career in engineering by his experience in a major earthquake. (Photo/Caption Credit: Nicholas Pham/UC Berkeley News)

Carlos Quezada Named 2025 University Medal Finalist

A group photo of the Berkeley CEE table at the 2025 John Muir Birthday and Earth Day Celebration with the non-profit group, Healthy Martinez including CEE Ph.D. students Sumukhi Prasad and Yi Ji. (Photo Credit: Sumukhi Prasad)

AQMEL Ph.D. Students Bridge Research and Outreach in Martinez, CA

A picture of Berkeley students building air purifiers for Stockton Unified School District's Earth Day celebration. (Photo Credit: Tina Chow)

CEE Students Build and Distribute Air Purifiers at Stockton Earth Day Event

A picture of Ph.D. student Héctor García Matamoros receiving the Academic Excellence Award at the closing of the CNIC 2018 ceremony (Photo Credit: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

Héctor García Matamoros Named 2025 ACI Presidents' Fellow

Dr. Mark Shami and students after completing OSHA 10 training this spring semester.

Construction Students Earn OSHA Certification

Researchers from the Air Quality Modeling and Exposure Lab with CalEPA Secretary Yana Garcia (center).

ENV Graduate Students Toast to Clean Air

Grad Slam Semi-Finalists Jaewon Saw and Zhe Fu to Showcase Research