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The Department of Civil Engineering offers a curriculum that provides each student with a fundamental background in the engineering and physical sciences, in mathematics, and in the traditional and contemporary civil engineering subspecialties. The major subspecialties include structures, hydraulics, environment, transportation, construction, soils and foundations, and surveying. B.S. graduates may choose immediate professional practice or avail themselves of numerous graduate opportunities in advanced engineering and in such diverse areas as business, law, medicine and government.
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Missouri earthquake awareness month
Seminar to address ways to lessen earthquake damage
Feb. 6,
2008 -- The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Structural Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis is presenting a series of seminars and workshops on the topic of reducing the damage that would occur when a strong earthquake strikes the New Madrid fault area again.
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First test
Study: Wireless sensors limit earthquake damage
April 16,
2007 --
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| Shirley Dyke (left) and Pengcheng Wang adjust wireless sensors onto a model laboratory building in Dyke's laboratory. |
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An earthquake engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has successfully performed the first test of wireless sensors in the simulated structural control of a model laboratory building. Shirley J. Dyke, Ph.D., the Edward C. Dicke Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Washington University Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, combined the wireless sensors with special controls called magnetorheological dampers to limit damage from a simulated earthquake load. More...
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Bacteria to run our cars, warm our homes
Energy-producing bacteria will be studied here
Oct. 9,
2006 --
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| Photo by David Kilper / WUSTL Photo |
| Himadri Pakrasi explains the photobioreactor in his Rebstock Hall laboratory. |
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The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has devoted $1.6 million to sequencing the DNA of six photosynthetic bacteria that Washington University in St. Louis biologists will examine for their potential as one of the nextgreat sources of biofuel that can run our cars and warm our houses. That's a lot of power potential from microscopic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) that capture sunlight and then do a variety of biochemical processes. One potential process, the clean production of ethanol, is a high priority for DOE. Himadri Pakrasi, Ph.D., Washington University Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences, and Professor of Energy in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, will head a team of biologists at Washington University and elsewhere in the analysis of the genomes of six related strains of Cyanothece bacteria. More...
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Jay Turner
Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering
Jay R. Turner, associate professor in chemical engineering with a joint appointment in civil engineering, focuses his research on such topics as environmental reaction engineering and environmental chemical analysis. He is the Principal Investigator for both the Midwest Fine Particulate Matter Supersite ...
Expertise: environmental engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, environmental reaction engineering, environmental chemical analysis, air pollutant sampling and characterization, stationary source air pollution, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5480
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jrturner@seas.wustl.edu
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Shirley Dyke
Professor of Civil Engineering
Dyke received her doctorate from the University of Notre Dame after graduating from the University of Illinois. She has published dozens of peer reviewed articles and is active in many international conferences and professional organizations. Research interests include semi-active structural control, ...
Expertise: civil engineering, semi-active structural control, structural health monitoring, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, system identification
Direct contact: (314) 935-5695
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Pratim Biswas
Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor
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Biswas received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology, has published extensively in his field and served on many international organizations and conferences. His research interests include aerosol science and engineering, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, combustion, materials ...
Expertise: aerosol science, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, combustion, material processing for environmental technologies, environmentally benign processing, environmental nanotechnology, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5482
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pratim.biswas@seas.wustl.edu
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