Department News: Engineering Systems and Environment

This powerful fellowship program is a critical reason UVA Engineering is attracting outstanding and diverse new graduate students.

The department bridges students, faculty and staff from UVA’s civil, environmental and systems engineering disciplines for an innovative approach to modern challenges.

Panels explored why women entrepreneurs are important for global change

The Society of Women Engineers at UVA marked Women Entrepreneurship Week with help from abroad.

Transportation safety engineer’s role is critical to serving localities

The Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Virginia has hired its first Safety Circuit Rider engineer.

Engineering and Society historian Peter Norton tells Southern California Public Radio that city streets changed to accommodate cars and they can change again.

Engineering and Society history professor Peter Norton writes in an op-ed for Wired magazine that pedestrians should not have to take a back seat to autonomous vehicles.

The Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Virginia and its partner agencies in the Mid-Atlantic region are hosting the 17th Roadway Management Conference in...

UVA Engineers are working with a multidisciplinary team in two pan-university institutes tackling global challenges.

UVA Engineers are working with a multidisciplinary team in two pan-university institutes tackling global challenges such as the rapidly changing climate.

Civil engineering students Austin Angulo, Xiaoxiao Zhang and Wesley Daugherty teamed with computer engineering’s Mahmoud Elnaggar to win VDOT’s SmarterRoads Hackaton with their navigation app, FlexiRoute.

UVA out-competed 95 iGEM teams from 30 countries in Genscript Inc.’s annual concept paper competition.