Water and Environmental - Richard A. Rula School of Civil & Environmental Engineering - Bagley College of Engineering - Page 2
ASCE New Face Honoree, Alumnus Sarah McEwen, Finds Inspiration in Mississippi River Basin
MSU project brings clean water to 7,000 Zambians: Presentation by Dr. Truax to the Starkville Rotary Club about EWB
For the past five years, Dennis Truax has been taking students to a small province in the southern African county of Zambia each summer to drill and assemble water wells. The project was adopted by the Mississippi State University chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB). Truax, who is the head of the MSU Bagley College…
Congratulations to Dr. Farshid Vahedifard on his Recent Publication in Science and his NSF Grant Focusing on Disaster Avoidance
Farshid Vahedifard, an MSU Bagley College of Engineering assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, penned the letter published in this week’s issue of Science, along with civil and environmental engineering colleagues Amir AghaKouchak and Navid H. Jafari from University of California, Irvine, and Louisiana State University, respectively. The letter states that multiple hazards, including…
MSU CEE student group wins grant to expand Zambian water project
An international grant soon will help a Mississippi State student team expand its fresh-water sustainability project in a rural African community. The university’s Engineers Without Borders chapter recently edged a Harvard University team and an Austin, Texas-area professional chapter to earn an $8,000 grant in the Penetron International EWB-USA Grant Award Contest. Based in New York, Penetron…
MSU faculty research featured in Science magazine (Dr. Farshid Vahedifard)
A Mississippi State University assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering is the lead author on a letter published last week [Aug. 21] in Science magazine. Farshid Vahedifard, an MSU Bagley College of Engineering faculty member since 2012, is lead author on the letter titled “Drought threatens California’s levees,” which may be viewed at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6250/799.1.full. Additional…
R.I.P. California (1850-2016): What We’ll Lose And Learn From The World’s First Major Water Collapse
Last week when NASA announced that California is on its death bed and has only 12 months of water left, the news hit like a punch to the gut. “Data from NASA satellites show that the total amount of water stored in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins — that is, all of the…
Can We Reverse-Engineer the Environment?
The Sanitary and Ship Canal was heralded as a triumph of that heroic age of American civil engineering in which technological progress and industrial might promised to deliver us from nature’s tyranny. If we could reverse the course of rivers, what couldn’t we bend to our will? In 1955, the American Society of Civil Engineers named…