UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering

Congratulations to Assistant Professor and CSW Advisory Committee member Timu Gallien for being named the Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor of the Year by UCLA’s American Society of Civil Engineers!

A UCLA study, published in the journal ACS ES&T Water and coauthored by C&EE Professors Sanjay Mohanty and Erik Hoek, suggests that fertilizer could contain far more plastic particles as much as 25 times more than was previously suspected. In the UCLA Newsroom article, Professor Mohanty spoke about the need for further research on where microplastics go after wastewater is processed, and the associated risks. https://newsroom.ucla.edu//biosolids-fertilizer-microplast

The UCLA Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) has been recognized four times in the past two months for the support of their members and their performance at competitions. In February, at the ASCE Los Angeles Younger Member Forum (LA YMF) Annual Awards Banquet, UCLA received the Outstanding Chapter award. In March, the UCLA Chapter hosted the annual Pacific Southwest Regional Conference, and UCLA finished first overall as determined by scoring from jud...ges from local civil engineering companies. In addition, UCLA’s first place overall performance in the PSWC Concrete Canoe Competition earned an official invitation to participate in the first ever Virtual ASCE Society-wide Concrete Canoe Competition, June 25-27. Earlier this month, the UCLA Chapter was also selected by the ASCE Committee on Student Members to receive a Certificate of Commendation for its outstanding activities as recorded in its 2020 Chapter Annual Report. Read all about their recent accomplishments: https://www.cee.ucla.edu/ucla-asce-chapter-receives-severa/

We're excited to welcome our newest faculty member, Professor Enrique López Droguett! López Droguett will join UCLA Samueli in July 2021, following nearly six years at the University of Chile, where he was a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Read more: https://www.cee.ucla.edu/cee-department-welcomes-professor/

Congratulations to Camille H. Le ’18, M.S. ’19, who received the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Master’s Student Award, and to Professor Yousef Bozorgnia, who received the V. M. Watanabe Excellence in Research Award! See all the 2021 Samueli Award Recipients: https://samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-samueli-announces-2021-awards/