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Civil Engineering
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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Baseball diamond as playground of math and physics
Engineer: Head-first slide is quicker
Sept. 25,
2008 -- Whether watching the All-Star Game, a World Series game or just a regular-season Tuesday afternoon game, it's nearly guaranteed that fans will see daring slides, both feet-first and head-first, and even slides on bang-bang plays at first. Who gets there faster, the head-first slider or the feet-first? The head-first player, says David A. Peters, Ph.D., the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, and big-time baseball fan. He says it's a matter of the player's center of gravity.
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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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Jay Turner
Associate Professor of Energy, Environmental & 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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Pratim Biswas
Chariman of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering; the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor
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, …
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pratim.biswas@seas.wustl.edu
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