URI Civil and Environmental Engineering

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Rhode Island
1 Lippitt Road, Kingston, RI 02881
Phone: 401-874-2692 Fax: 401-874-2786
e-mail

Welcome to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Web site. The Department faculty and staff are dedicated to promoting personal and professional development in the area of Civil and Environmental Engineering and to preparing our students to enter the Civil Engineering profession and to pursue advanced studies at the graduate level. I hope that this homepage will help you to learn about our department.

K. Wayne Lee, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor and Chair
leew@egr.uri.edu

Dr. Mayrai Gindy Receives NSF Grant

Congratulations to Dr. Mayrai Gindy for her reception of a $148,980 grant from the National Science Foundation for the development of learning materials in the Structural Engineering Instrumentation and Measurements Laboratory. She will work with Prof. Tsiatas to fulfill the project's goal. The full article is available online here.

Civil and Environmental Engineering 2007 Holiday Party

Wednesday, December 12, 2007, from 12 to 2 PM, the CVE department had its holiday party.

The 20th Rhode Island Transportation Forum

This year's Rhode Island Transportation Forum took place on Friday, November 2nd, and was a great success. Click here to view some presentations from the event.

Survey in Support of Multi-Modal Hurricane Evacuation Plans

We invite you to participate in this online survey conducted by researchers from the University of Rhode Island in the aim to determine the preparedness of persons in Rhode Island for hurricane evacuations and the anticipated behavioral patterns during hurricane evacuations in Rhode Island. Behavioral patterns of particular interest are those that impact mainly the transportation system usage and those that impact other anticipated actions.

The link for the survey is: Survey in Support of Multi-Modal Hurricane Evacuation Plans

Graduate Fellowship in Transportation from NEUTC

Mr. Andrew Prezioso received a Graduate Fellowship in Transportation from the New England University Transportation Center (NEUTC) at MIT through the Rhode Island Transportation Research Center (RITRC). His thesis title is "The Use of Geographic Information System (GIS) for Issuance of Oversize and Overweight Vehicle Permits," and his major professor is Dr. Mayrai Gindy.

File last updated: Sunday, January 27, 2008