WGRZ-TV spoke to Anthony Tessari, assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, about plans to cover over or deck a portion of the Kensington Expressway in Buffalo.
Faizan UI Haq Mir, a PhD student specializing in structural and earthquake engineering won the Best Paper Award at the 2021 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2021).
Engineering News Record mentioned work by SUNY Distinguished Professor Michel Bruneau in a story about AISC’s goal to speed up the delivery time of steel structures.
Seyedomid Sajedi, a PhD candidate specializing in autonomous structural inspections and health monitoring, won the $8,000 O.H. Ammann Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
A Metal.com story about the 65th anniversary of the Metal Building Manufacturers Association mentioned that the organization sponsored its first major research program in 1966 for a study on tapered structural members by UB researcher George Lee, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.
The American Institute of Steel Construction reports on the results of its Student Steel Bridge Competition, which involved more than 1,000 student engineers at 102 colleges and universities nationwide. UB student engineers took home 1st place honors in the Lightness category, 3rd place in the Structural Efficiency category.
In a story about how Bill Gates’ company, TerraPower, is building next generation nuclear power technologies, CNBC quotes Andrew Whittaker, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.
“Scaling with models is always an issue,” says Michael Murphy, a PhD structural engineering student in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, “you can have a larger scale sectional model to get more accurate aerodynamic properties to pair with a virtual model in order to model the global behavior of the structure.”
