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Creating a Healthier World Through Pioneering Environmental Engineering Research
August 21, 2023
Professor Danmeng Shuai’s pioneering research won him a Frontier Research Award from the Association of Chinese American Professors in Environmental Engineering and Science!

U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Race-Conscious Admissions
June 29, 2023
Diversity of our student body remains a core value of the George Washington University and its School of Engineering & Applied Science (GW Engineering).

Development of Electrospun Nanofibrous Air Filters for Controlling the Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
May 15, 2023
Professor Danmeng Shuai collaborated with Professor Yun Shen and developed electrospun nanofibrous membranes with a reduced fiber diameter and pore size to effectively capture coronavirus aerosols.

Ph.D. Student Lingchen Kong Scores First Place at GSEA D.C. and 2023 New Venture Competition
April 25, 2023
Ph.D. student Lingchen Kong continues to make amazing progress on his start-up company, Ellexco! Read to learn how Kong has excelled in multiple competitions as he works towards his goal of making lithium extraction more cost-effective and environmentally friendly.

Ph.D. Student Lingchen Kong and Professor Xitong Liu Win Funding at the 2023 New Venture Competition
April 19, 2023
The pair took home two top honors totaling $20,000 at the 2023 New Venture Competition awards ceremony at Jack Morton Auditorium.

Roadway User Behavior Modeling in a Smart City Environment
April 14, 2023
Professor Samer Hamder is taking an approach that bridges the gap between human decision-making and wireless communications to help reduce the number of roadway collisions each year.

Liquefaction Experiments and Analysis Projects (LEAP)
March 13, 2023
Professor Majid Manzari is leading an international research collaboration among three universities in the U.S. and 8 universities and research centers in the U.K.

Nanomaterial Boosts Potency of Coronavirus Disinfectants
Enhanced disinfectant is two-to-four times more effective in neutralizing pathogen threat
February 22, 2023
A research team led by the George Washington University has engineered a new nanomaterial that can boost the potency of common disinfectants.

Dr. Tianshu Li taking the lead at GW for a newly funded Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC)
September 20, 2022
GWU will partner with 9 other institutions to discover the fundamental scientific principles underlying the control of atomic ordering in semiconductor alloys.

Prof. Xitong Liu receives the Inaugural ACS ES&T Engineering Best Paper Award
September 13, 2022
Dr. Liu's paper "Cost Comparison of Capacitive Deionization and Reverse Osmosis for Brackish Water Desalination" is one of this year's recipients.

ASCE GW Student Chapter Participate at Mid-Atlantic West ASCE Student Symposium
April 14, 2022
The GW environmental team won first place in the Environmental Contest and the GW steel bridge team won second place in bridge aesthetics.

GW Transportation Program participates in $7m Department of Transportation grant
December 9, 2021
Working with a team led by Texas A&M University, the GW Transportation Program will study "Automated Vehicles for All."

Dr. Shuai’s study calls for urgent attention to public health concerns of emerging pathogen
December 8, 2021
The study finds that vesicle-cloaked norovirus clusters are persistent under environmental stresses and are resistant to ultraviolet disinfection.

Meet GW Monumental Alumnus, Sidney Dewberry
December 7, 2021
Mr. Dewberrry, B.S. ’51, is an engineering executive. Learn more about his Monumental Achievement.

Dr. Liu’s team advances to semi-finals of DOE Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize competition
November 9, 2021
Dr. Xitong Liu and his Ph.D. student Lingchen Kong are leading a GW team to participate in the US Department of Energy’s Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize

Dr. Li receives NSF grant to model crystal nucleation under realistic conditions
October 5, 2021
Dr. Tianshu Li and his collaborator at UC Davis have received a three-year, $639,105 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for the project “An integrated computational suite for large-scale modeling of crystal nucleation.”

Dr. Shuai receives NIH grant to study the disinfection paradigm for emerging pathogen
October 5, 2021
Dr. Danmeng Shuai has received a two-year, $489,586 R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Drs. Silva, Hamdar and Badie will use FHWA grant to develop guidelines to enhance bridge safety
October 4, 2021
Dr. Pedro Silva and project co-investigators, Dr. Samer Hamdar and Dr. Sameh Badie, have received a three-year, $299,195 grant from the Federal Highway Administration.

Dr. Farhadi receives NASA grant to study evapotranspiration and recharge fluxes
October 3, 2021
Dr. Leila Farhadi has received a one-year, $99,000 NASA grant for the project "Coupled Estimation of Evapotranspiration and Recharge from Remotely Sensed Land Surface Moisture and Temperature."

Dr. Xu receives 2021 HKSTS Outstanding Dissertation Award
September 14, 2021
Dr. Zhengtian Xu has received the 2021 Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS) Outstanding Dissertation Award cum Gordon Newell Memorial Prize for his dissertation.

GW Transportation Program participates in $7m Department of Transportation grant
May 25, 2021
Working with a team led by Texas A&M University, the GW Transportation Program will study "Automated Vehicles for All."

Graduating senior Zachary Stecher recounts his favorite GW memory for GW Today
May 12, 2021
GW Today asked selected graduating seniors across the university to share their favorite GW memories with the rest of the GW community.

Dr. Shuai’s study calls for urgent attention to public health concerns of emerging pathogen
April 21, 2021
The study finds that vesicle-cloaked norovirus clusters are persistent under environmental stresses and are resistant to ultraviolet disinfection.

Dr. Hamdar featured in GW Magazine’s article “Forecast”
April 21, 2021
Dr. Samer Hamdar is featured in GW Magazine’s article “Forecast".

GW Monumental Alumnus: Sidney Oliver Dewberry
April 2, 2021
Mr. Dewberrry, B.S. ’51, is an engineering executive. Learn more about his Monumental Achievement.

Dr. Hamdar receives funding to develop AI systems to help people with health problems drive safely
February 20, 2021
Dr. Hamdar's team will create high quality image and video datasets using driving simulators, and then train and test advanced AI systems to predict and detect driver fatigue, seizure, stroke, or cardiac arrest, all of which can contribute to traffic accidents.

Dr. Li’s study shows that prevailing view of GeSn alloy is not accurate
December 18, 2020
This first-of-its-kind study unravels some of the puzzling material properties of GeSn alloy, a key material that represents a disruptive technology for mid-infrared technology.

Dr. Riffat receives EPA STAR grant
August 19, 2020
Dr. Rumana Riffat and a team of researchers from academia and Water Resource Recovery Facilities have received a three-year, $999,670 grant from the EPA STAR (Science to Achieve Results) program.

Dr. Shuai receives two grants from NSF’s Environmental Engineering Program
July 23, 2020
Dr. Danmeng Shuai is the principal investigator on two grants he recently received from the Environmental Engineering Program of National Science Foundation.

Dr. Shuai wins NSF RAPID grant for COVID-19-related research
May 9, 2020
Dr. Danmeng Shuai (CEE), along with Dr. Yun Shen (Environmental and Occupational Health), has received a one-year, $200,000 National Science Foundation RAPID grant to develop electrospun air filters for SARS-CoV-2 control.

Admitted Students: SEAS announces Flex-Start program
March 18, 2020
In Fall 2020, SEAS began to offer select admitted master’s degree students the ability to start their MS degree program online through our Flex-Start program. The program is ideal for admitted students who may be impacted by travel restrictions or visa delays.

Dr. Farhadi wins NSF CAREER Award
February 22, 2020
Dr. Leila Farhadi will use her CAREER award to study the links between the terrestrial water, energy, and carbon cycles that play a key role in Earth’s climate.

GW’s EWB chapter makes assessment trip in India
February 21, 2020
Students from GW’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders conducted a trip to Rajasthan, India, in January to assess a project it is working on in conjunction with the rural community of Bhutiya.

CEE winners of SEAS Student R&D Showcase
October 31, 2019
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) congratulates the CEE student and faculty mentor winners of the 2019 SEAS Student R&D Showcase.

Dr. Hamdar speaks to WUSA-CBS9 about the future of electric vehicles
October 17, 2019
WUSA-CBS9 quoted Dr. Samer Hamdar (CEE) in the October 6 article “Gas station ditches gas and goes electric; A sign of the future?’’

Dr. Riffat receives Water Research Foundation grant
September 26, 2019
Dr. Rumana Riffat has received a $147,161 award from Water Research Foundation for her research project “Partial denitrification/anammox as alternative pathway to achieve mainstream short-cut nitrogen removal.”

Dr. Xitong Liu joins CEE department
August 31, 2019
The CEE department welcomes Dr. Xitong Liu, who has joined us as an assistant professor.

CEE students receive ASCE chapter awards
April 23, 2019
The National Capital Section (NCS) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recognized four female CEE students at its annual ASCE NCS Awards Banquet, held March 19 in Arlington, VA.

Priyanka Ali wins 2019 GW Research Days competition awards
April 16, 2019
CEE graduate student Priyanka Ali won awards in two categories at the 2019 GW Research Days competition.

CEE alumnus Nick Paleologos visits SEH high bay
April 16, 2019
On Monday April 8, Nick Paleologos, a CEE alumnus and founder of Miller and Long DC Inc., visited the high bay facility at the Science and Engineering Hall.

Khaled AlFadl receives Award of Excellence from ACI’s National Capital Chapter
April 16, 2019
On April 9, CEE senior Khaled AlFadl received the Award of Excellence from the National Capital Chapter of the American Concrete Institute.

Dr. Li is a co-PI on a $7.5M DOD MURI grant
April 9, 2019
Dr. Tianshu Li is a co-PI of the DOD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) project titled “Understanding and Breaking the Material Barriers of SiGeSn Alloys for Infrared Devices.”

Dr. Silverstein speaks to WTOP-FM about GW team’s winning traffic app
March 19, 2019
CEE visiting assistant professor Dr. Claire Silverstein was quoted in the WTOP article "George Washington U. team wins DC funding for traffic app."

GW Transportation Program wins GigabitDCx Challenge
February 20, 2019
On February 12, GW’s Transportation Program won the first GigabitDCx Challenge after developing the framework for “Road Vision” (RV), a video traffic detection and information sharing app.

HTNB engineers visit CEE undergraduates
January 29, 2019
On January 25, a group of professional engineers from the bridge design group of HNTB (Chicago, IL and Washington, DC) gave a presentation to CEE students at the invitation of Dr. Majid Manzari and Dr. Sameh Badie.