Accomplishments: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction
Melissa Bartshe, Courtney Coughenour (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Haroon Stephen (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) published an article on "The relationship between tree canopy and social capital on physical activity in college students" in the Journal of American College Health.
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Jin Ouk Choi, Shreyansh Paliwal, James Bristow, Seungtaek Lee (all Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) and Hyun Kyung Chatfield (Harrah College of Hospitality) published a paper, "Construction stakeholders’ perceived benefits and barriers for environment-friendly modular construction in a hospitality centric…
Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was appointed president of the Korean-American Construction Engineering and Project Management Association for AY 2021-2022. The association is a membership association consisting principally of Korean and Korean-American construction industry professionals, college and…
Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction and the Transportation Research Center) along with Alex Hainen of the University of Alabama, made an invited presentation, “Connected & Automated Vehicle Infrastructure System (CAVIS) Program Development and Deployment: Example in Alabama,” as part of the "State &…
Meena Ejjada (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was selected for the 2021 Dave Caldwell Scholarship awarded by the American Water Works Association. The nationwide scholarship established in memory of Brown and Caldwell recognizes a graduate student whose work advances engineering and technology in the drinking water…
Jin Ouk Choi and Binit K. Shrestha (both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) along with colleagues at the George Washington University and the Iowa State University published a paper, "Recipes for Standardized Capital Projects’ Performance Success" in the Journal of Management in Engineering published by American…
Shashi Nambisan (Civil Engineering and Transportation Research Center) was interviewed by Joe Schoenmann of KNPR about a mass transit initiative proposed along Charleston Boulevard in the city of Las Vegas. The segment aired earlier this month as part of KNPR's State of Nevada.
Jin Ouk Choi and Binit K. Shrestha (both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) along with colleagues at the George Washington University and the Iowa State University published a paper, "Exploring the Benefits and Tradeoffs of Design Standardization in Capital Projects," in the Engineering, Construction, and…
Jin Ouk Choi, Rajarshi Ghimire, Seungtaek Lee (all Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) and Jin-Yeol Lee (Architecture), with Yong-Cheol Lee at the Louisiana State University, published a paper, "Combined Application of 4D BIM Schedule and an Immersive Virtual Reality on a Modular Project: UNLV Solar Decathlon Case,"…
Jin Ouk Choi and Binit K. Shrestha (both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), with colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin, published a paper, "Relationship between Commissioning and Start-Up Success Factors Achievement and Performance in Capital Projects," in the Journal of Construction Engineering…
Angela Chen (Finance) and Justin de Leon (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) placed second out of 14 teams in the Sherwin-Williams Marketing Design Competition with the digital marketing plan they created and presented. Chen is a junior in the finance program at the Lee Business School. De Leon is a junior in civil…
Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) with his colleagues Yong-Cheol Lee and Pedram Ghannad of Louisiana State University published a paper, "Prioritizing Postdisaster Recovery of Transportation Infrastructure Systems Using Multiagent Reinforcement Learning," in the American Society of Civil Engineers…