The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine fellowship provides promising PhD students three years of graduate funding.
Students
Dianna Kitt awarded Ford Predoctoral Fellowship
Environmental Engineering Student Xanthe Thomas places in 2021 Daniel W. Mead Prize competition from ASCE
The competition recognizes outstanding student papers on a topic related to professional ethics in civil engineering.
Sustainability, Civil, and Environmental Engineering Minorities (SCEEM) provides needed community
Despite the challenges of the pandemic, SCEEM has maintained connections and looks toward future growth.
Alyssa Schubert awarded American Water Works Association fellowship
The fellowship will support her research in distribution of risk in drinking water.
Two CEE students receive AISC scholarships
Cecile Baeza and Nicholas Riesterer are both master’s students in Civil Engineering.
University of Michigan student team wins National Transportation Technology Tournament for second year in a row
The team designed solutions to the problem of curb space management in downtown Ann Arbor.
PhD Candidate Ahmed Abdelhady places in Objective Resilience Student Competition
Abdelhady’s work models hurricane damage on residential neighborhoods.
PhD Candidate Alyssa DeSimone awarded SFPE grant
Her research in structural fire engineering focuses on modeling fire spread in large compartments.
PhD student Gaang Lee receives the Creativeness in Ergonomics Student of the Year Award at the 23rd Applied Ergonomics Conference
The annual conference highlights the outstanding professionals in ergonomics, healthcare, safety, human resources and risk management from around the world.
Pelham Scholars Program celebrates its first year of supporting master’s students
The Pelham Scholars Program program continues a legacy of excellence by supporting socially-conscious engineers seeking to solve society’s most pressing problems.
CEE student organizations: A year in review
Reflections on CEE student organization activities during the 2019-2020 academic year.
PhD Student Emily Crossette receives C. Ellen Gonter award from the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry
The annual award honors outstanding graduate student research papers in chemistry or environmental engineering.
Brittany Hicks receives Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
CEE PhD student Brittany Hicks has received the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship through the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Ariel Roy receives Best Speaker Award at Construction Institute’s Student Days
CEE undergraduate Ariel Roy received the Best Speaker Award for her team, Civil Six, through the Construction Institute (CI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers’s Student Days.
Student Awards 2018-2019
A look back at all of our students who received awards during the 2018-2019 school year.
New partnership provides accelerated master’s degree option
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at U-M and the School of Environment at Tsinghua University have been approved for a partnership to establish an Accelerated Master’s Degree Program in Environmental Engineering for students from the School of Environment at Tsinghua.
Avery Carlson receives WEFTEC’s Martha Hahn Memorial Award
PhD student Avery Carlson received the Martha Hahan Memorial Award through the Water Environment Federation’s Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC).
Shilva Shrestha receives Water Environment Federation (WEF) Canham Graduate Studies Scholarship
PhD student Shilva Shrestha received the Canham Graduate Studies Scholarship through the Water Environment Federation for the 2019-2020 school year.
PhD Student Katherine Dowdell Selected for NWRI-Biolargo Graduate Fellowship
Katherine Dowdell received a fellowship to support her research project on optimizing filter backwashing practices to reduce pathogens in drinking water.
Restoration and collaboration
A field trip to the Boardman River presents a unique opportunity to see dam restoration and cross-disciplinary collaboration in action.
