Department News: Engineering Systems and Environment
Recent news about the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment
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Recent news about the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment
Paper in Nature Energy demonstrates that modernizing power grids and using renewable energy will be cheaper than repairing hurricane damage.
UVA Engineering professor Venkataraman Lakshmi has spent considerable years seeking to understand the vadose zone, the section of Earth that anchors the systems of human life.
Engineering Systems and Environment associate professor Osman Ozbulut argues investing in advanced building technologies is a good buy for state and federal governments.
A story about earthquakes, smart metals, and a UVA Engineering professor's family connection from half a world away.
Professor Teresa Culver and her graduate students, Maria Rossetti and Md Ibrahim Sabit, presented at the 2019 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress in Pittsburgh.
Matt Stromberg, 34, found connections with his UVA Engineering professors and seized the opportunities the School offered him en route to a new path in life.
Engineering Systems and Environment researcher Shakira Hobbs’ biofuel converter will help community residents manage food waste and weather the effects of climate change.
The University of Virginia and C-Crete Technologies will develop high-performance cement materials that can be manufactured with only a fraction of the energy and carbon emissions...
A civil and environmental Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment earned the inaugural UVA Global Water Initiative Graduate Prize.
The Engineering Systems and Environment Department's Jonathan Goodall has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.