Dear friends and colleagues,
Welcome to our spring 2023 newsletter, where you will find recent news about the accomplishments of CEE faculty and students. Please view the new CEE video that features what many of us are thinking a lot about these days – how to tackle the daunting challenges of decarbonizing the metabolism of our societies. We believe that civil and environmental engineers have a unique and critical role in the climate battle, and you will see these efforts echoed throughout our newsletter.
Alessandro Rotta Loria’s research, for instance, explores how the subsurface environment of cities offers many ways to heat and cool buildings and recover and store energy. Creating circular economies is a focus for Ludmilla Aristilde, who studies microbial metabolic pathways to transform complex polymers such as plastics and biomass into useful products. For the third year in a row, an ambitious group of CEE students has successfully competed at the national level in the DOE Solar Decathlon and won third place for their sustainable design of a school renovation.
Our recent Faculty Spotlight features Sinan Keten, and we also link to other faculty entries in the series. Join us in congratulating CEE faculty who have received awards and recognition for their excellence in research, among them Yonggang Huang, who was elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society.
As you can see, it has been a busy and successful year. Thanks for your support and we wish you a lovely, relaxing summer.
