Events that the civil, materials, and environmental engineering department sponsors or participates in are listed on this page as they are announced.
Please be aware that during off-cycles of the academic year—especially just before and during summer break—it is possible that no events will be listed on this page. We update our listings as active events are scheduled. Watch this space for upcoming research seminars, student events, open houses, and more.
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- 04.26.2024 – Realizing Digitized Infrastructure Inspections via AI, Automation, and Sensing
- 04.25.2024 – Geonaturals for Sustainable Infrastructure and Disaster Risk Reduction
- 04.19.2024 – Journeying Through the Human-Machine Nexus: Unraveling Driver Behavior, Social Network Dynamics, and Autonomous Vehicles in Transportation
- 04.18.2024 – Case Histories of The Impacts of Natural Chemical and Microbiological Processes In Geotechnical Engineering
- 04.12.2024 – Fast or slow? A geomechanical interpretation of sharp changes in landslide velocity
- 04.04.2024 – Microplastics Derived from Traditional Fossil Fuel Based Sources – Fate, Transport and Its Greener Alternatives
- 03.29.2024 – Recent advancements in powder bed additive manufacturing processes
- 03.28.2024 – Enhanced Contaminant Containment Performance of Innovative Vertical Barriers
- 03.25.2024 – Advancing Sustainable Energy Through Electrochemical and Membrane Separation Technologies
- 03.22.2024 – Precise Water Quality Control: Using Chemistry to Engineer Resilient Water Systems
- 03.20.2024 –Elucidating the Role of Microstructural Defects on the Plasticity of Metals and Alloys using Mesoscale Models
- 03.19.2024 – Computationally Feasible Phase Diagrams and Properties of Materials under Experimentally Challenging Conditions
- 03.15.2024 – Water in the Time of COVID: A Sociotechnical Approach to Explore Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Urban Water Infrastructure
- 03.14.2024 – Exploring Ferroelectricity in Morphologically Engineered Complex Oxide Thin Films
- 03.14.2024 – Microbial-mineralization in Soil: Applications in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
- 03.13.2024 – Pollutants to Power: Chemistry for Environmental Remediation & Sustainable Energy
- 03.08.2024 – Design of Resilient, Engineered, Autonomous, and Multifunctional (DREAM) structures
- 03.07.2024 – Geotechnical Characterization and Stabilization of Organic Soils using the Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation Technique (MICP)
- 02.29.2024 – The Many Faces of HDPE Geomembranes and the Effect on the Service Life
- 02.22.2024 – Energy GeoScience and Engineering
- 02.16.2024 – Sustainability in the Food-Energy-Water-Waste Nexus
- 02.15.2024 – Plants as Bio-sentinels: Mother Nature Can Tell Us a Lot!
- 02.09.2024 – Shaping a Safer Future: Harnessing Technological Innovations for Enhanced Safety and Decision-Making in Construction
- 02.08.2024 – Investigations of Groundwater Contamination with NAPL Petroleum Spills and Remediation
- 02.02.2024 – Decarbonizing daily traveling from a behavior perspective: building up people’s attitude towards low-carbon traveling recommendations
- 02.01.2024 – Can Microbes Solve the Civil Engineering Problems? A Perspective of Green Energy, Biocementation, and Bioremediation
- 01.25.2024 – Climate Change – Challenges Ahead for Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineers
- 01.24.2024 – Coordinating the Charging Schedule of a Large-Scale Electric Bus Fleet with Conventional and Renewable Electricity Sources
- 01.18.2024 – An Overview of Life Cycle Assessment Relative to Use of Recycled Materials in Highway Construction
- 12.01.2023 – Engineered Water Repellency to Mitigate Frost Action
- 11.30.2023 – BOF and EAF Steel Slags: Properties, Challenges and Applications
- 11.17.2023 – The Role of Mechanics, Infrastructure Materials, and Structural Design for the Decarbonization and Resilience of the Built Environment
- 11.16.2023 – Safeguarding Our World: The Role of Remote Sensing in Monitoring Critical Infrastructure to Prevent Environmental Disasters
- 11.10.2023 – High-Energy-Density Lithium-Sulfur Battery Design using Garnet Solid Electrolyte
- 11.09.2023 – Soil Particle-Fluid Interaction on NAPL Displacement in Porous Media
- 11.3.2023 – Emerging Transportation Modes and their Sustainability Implications
- 10.27.2023 – Advances in Hybrid Autonomous Manufacturing: Successes and open challenges in simulation, data, control, and certification
- 10.20.2023 – Extreme Load Performance Assessment of Complex Structures through Hybrid Simulation
- 10.19.2023 – Thermal Energy in Soils: Resource, Waste, or Tool?
- 10.13.2023 – Advanced Engineering Research
- 10.12.2023 – Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resilient Flood Protection Systems
- 10.6.2023 – The Unprecedented Promise of Perovskite Photovoltaics
- 10.05.2023 – Landslide Mitigation of Urbanized Slopes for Sustainable Growth: Recent Developments
- 09.29.2023 – Vertical Barriers for Control of Seepage and Contaminant Transport
- 09.28.2023 – Multiscale Sensing and Simulations for Soil Erosion and Georisk Mitigation
- 09.21.2023 – PFAS or Forever Chemicals: Treatment Challenges and Opportunities
- 09.15.2023 – Innovative Data-Driven Solutions for Traffic Operations
- 09.14.2023 – Marginal Soils: Geoenvironmental Challenges and Opportunities
- 09.08.2023 – Process-induced microstructure modeling in additive manufacturing and friction stir processing
- 09.07.2023 – Novel Mitigation Techniques for Earthquake and Tsunami-induced Geo-Disaster: A Step Towards Protection of Coastal Areas from Tsunamis
- 09.01.2023 – What Happens Before the Last Mile? Exploring a Package’s Journey
- 08.31.2023 – Uncharacteristic Swell in Soils due to Contamination: Failures and Remedial Measures
- 08.24. 2023 – Expanding the Realms of ENVGEO: The Limitations & Possibilities
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- 04.27.2023: Sustainability Assessment of Technologies to Remediate Groundwater Contaminated with PFAS
- 04.20.2023: Sustainable Practices for Geotechnical Engineering
- 04.13.2023: Internal Erosion in Embankment Dams and Dikes
- 04.06.2023: Effective Control of Landfill Gas Dispersion and VOC Transport Using Innovative Geomembranes
- 03.30.2023: Climate Resilient Infrastructure in Water Sector
- 03.23.2023: Some Recent Innovations in Coastal Structures
- 03.16.2023: Importance of Tailings Characterization for Sustainable Management of Tailings Dams
- 03.09.2023: Exploring the Interactions of Temperature, Pore Water Pressure, and Pore Fluid Flow in Soil Media
- 03.02.2023: Geotechnical Engineering for High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Project in Japan
- 02.23.2023: Reuse of Excavated Soil by Lime Stabilization: From Microstructure to Macroscopic Behavior
- 02.16.2023: Electrokinetic-enhanced Phytoremediation of Soils with Mixed Contamination: Status and Opportunities
- 02.09.2023: Plastic Waste Management- Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
- 02.02.2023: Modified Surfaces in Environmental Electrochemistry, as an Alternative to the Sustainable Development
- 12.01.2022: Leachate Recirculation and Bioreactor Landfills
- 11.17.2022: Geotechnical Stability of Waste Fills – Lessons Learned and Continuing Challenges
- 11.10.2022: Understanding Elevated Temperature Landfill Events: From Field Observations to Numerical Modeling
- 11.03.2022: Membrane Behavior and Chemico-Osmosis in Clays
- 10.27.2022: Beyond Geophysics, Electromagnetic Waves for Geoenvironmental Engineering
- 10.20.2022: The Successful Solidification/Stabilization (S/S) of Freshwater Sediments Impacted by an Organo-arsenic Herbicide
- 10.13.2022: Enhancing Armored Final Covers for Uranium Mill Tailings Disposal Facilities Through Naturalization
- 10.06.2022: Slurry Walls for Environmental Containment
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- 08.27.2021: Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Solutions for Managing Natural Resources
- 08.20.2021: Rubbish In Rubbish Out? Landfill Content, Leachate Development and Future Repositories
- 08.13.2021: Use of Polymerized Clays and Waste Materials for Various Geoenvironmental Applications
- 08.06.2021: From Planning to Implementation: An Integrated and Resource Recovery Approach for Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries
- 07.30.2021: Effects of Specific Surface Area and Zeta Potential on Engineering Behavior of Clayey Soils with Relevance to Electrokinetic Remediation
- 07.23.2021: Phytoremediation of Soils and Fill Materials with Mixed Contaminants: Laboratory and Field Investigations
- 07.16.2021: PFAS, Geosynthetics, and Environmental Protection: A New Era of Concerns or Opportunities?
- 07.09.2021: Compost for Permanent Vegetation Establishment and Erosion Control along Highway Systems
- 07.02.2021: Pollutant-Mineral Interactions Investigated by Quantitative X-Ray Diffraction Technique
- 06.25.2021: Bioremediation of Explosives-Contaminated Soil
- 06.18.2021: Laboratory to Large-Scale Application of Biocementation in Liquefiable Sand
- 06.11.2021: Mercury Contamination from Waste Storage Yard: Modeling and Remediation
- 06.04.2021: Magnesia-bearing Cements and Their Applications in Soil Remediation
- 05.28.2021: Dewatering Contaminated Slurries Using Geotextile Tubes- Learning from Case Histories
- 05.21.2021: Protection of Geomembrane Liner from Damage due to Overlying Drainage Material in Landfills
- 05.14.2021: Landfill Site Selection Methodologies and Criteria
- 05.07.2021: Advances in Diffusion and Membrane Behavior of Bentonite-Based Barriers
- 05.03.2021: Join Professors Lin and Zou for a discussion on Chicago transportation
- 04.30.2021: Webinar to showcase High-Bay Structures Laboratory capabilities
- 04.07.2021: ASCE Legends event slated for April 7
- 03.10.2021: ASCE Legends event set for March 10
- 02.17.2021: ASCE Legends hosting John Fornek on Feb. 17
- 01.27.2021: ASCE student chapter hosting ‘Legends’ event on Jan. 27
- 11.11.2020: ASCE student chapter hosting virtual ‘Legends’ event
- 10.06.2020: ASCE student chapter hosting ‘Legends’ event on Oct. 6
- 08.05.2020: UIC’s ASCE student chapter hosting ‘Legends’ event on Aug. 5