Introduction
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.
event listings
Oct
23
2026
Human-centered Sensing, Automation and Understanding of Dynamics with Immersive Platforms
Friday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
America/Chicago
ERF Room 1047
Nov
6
2026
Cost and Carbon Savings in Load-Bearing Bridge Abutment Construction Utilising Polymer Geogrids
Friday, 9:00 am–10:00 am
America/Chicago
Nov
13
2026
Landfill Performance in Cold Regions: Temperature Evolution, Settlement, and Methane Mitigation
Friday, 9:00 am–10:00 am
America/Chicago
Nov
20
2026
Nature-Based and Inspired Responsive Systems in Ground Engineering
Friday, 9:00 am–10:00 am
America/Chicago
Dec
4
2026
Understanding Debris Flows in the Himalayas: From Material Behavior to Landscape Impact
Friday, 9:00 am–10:00 am
America/Chicago
Full Event Listings
2026-2027
- 09.04.2026: Expanded Scope of Geoenvironmental Engineering to Address Broader Challenges Facing Society
- 09.11.2026: Enzyme-Induced Carbonate Precipitation for Fugitive Dust Control
- 09.18.2026: Energy Geostructures – Geothermal Solutions for Deep Foundations and Densely Developed Urban Areas
- 09.25.2026: Flat Plate Dilatometer (DMT): Overview, Evolution, and Applications in Geotechnical Engineering
- 10.02.2026: Geotechnical Insights into Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Protection
- 10.09.2026: Reliability-Based Design for Sustainable MSE Walls
- 10.16.2026: EGRWSE-2026 Preview Webinar: Everything You Need to Know Before You Attend
- 10.23.2026: Human-centered Sensing, Automation and Understanding of Dynamics with Immersive Platforms
- 11.06.2026: Cost and Carbon Savings in Load-Bearing Bridge Abutment Construction Utilising Polymer Geogrids
- 11.13.2026: Landfill Performance in Cold Regions: Temperature Evolution, Settlement, and Methane Mitigation
- 11.20.2026: Nature-Based and Inspired Responsive Systems in Ground Engineering
- 12.04.2026: Understanding Debris Flows in the Himalayas: From Material Behavior to Landscape Impact
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- 04.17.2026: Net-Zero Water Resource Recovery Facilities
- 03.06.2026: Net-Zero Water Resource Recovery Facilities
- 03.04.2026: Measuring Access to Critical Services Under Extreme Disruptions: Infrastructure and Smart Data Perspectives
- 02.27.2026: Information-Driven Socio-technical Approaches for Community Resilience
- 02.25.2026: Human-Infrastructure Systems Under Stress: Hazards, Adaptive Governance, and Emerging Technologies
- 02.20.2026: Dynamics and control of aerial manipulation
- 02.06.2026: Shaping the Future of Mobility via Virtual Prototyping and Human-In-The-Loop Experimentation
- 01.30. 2026 – Policy Implications for Robotaxis in Chicago
- 12.05.2025 – Enhancing Disaster Resilience through Sociotechnical Approaches: Insights from Social Media Analytics for Crisis Events
- 12.04.2025 – Building Green & Building Fair: Navigating Environmental Justice Implications in Green Building Construction for Community Development In Chicago
- 11.21.2025 – Modeling of Fracture in Sand Material
- 11.20.2025 – Use of Geosynthetic Materials for Rail Stabling and Maintenance Yard Construction at a Contaminated Site
- 11.17.2025 – Engineering Sustainability and Modernizing the Engineering Curriculum
- 11.14.2025 – Retrospective of the Earthline Hazardous-Waste Landfill Failure, a Case Study of Legacy Landfills and Dumps
- 11.14.2025 – Cost-effectiveness of Modular Transit Systems
- 11.13.2025 – Achieving Enhanced Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure with Geosythetics
- 11.06.2025 – Innovative Use of Recyclable Materials in Geotechnical Engineering
- 10.31.2025 – Dynamic Downscaled Future Weather Files and Uses
- 10.30.2025 – Life Cycle Assessment Applied to Electrochemical Advanced Oxidation Processes Applied to Wastewater Treatment
- 10.22.2025 – Interdisciplinary Intelligent Transportation Systems: Traffic Control and Travel Time Dynamics
- 10.20.2025 – Uncertainty-Aware Air Traffic Management for Current and Future Airspace Entrants
- 10.17.2025 – AI-Powered Digital Twins of Concrete Bridges for Enhanced Asset Management
- 10.16.2025 –Introduction to Cone Penetration Testing and Advanced CPT Modules
- 10.10.2025 – Sustainability and Resilience: Building Cities of the Future with Engineers of Tomorrow
- 10.09.2025 – From Biases to Opportunities: Leveraging Location-Based-Service Data for Transportation Planning
- 10.09.2025 – T3: Tensor Thinking for Transportation — A High-Dimensional, Low-Rank Approximation Framework for Data- and AI-Driven Systems Modeling
- 10.09.2025 – Revisiting Plant Wilting: Observational Evidence from Soil-Plant-Photosynthesis Interactions
- 10.03.2025 – Pushing the Limits of Membrane Selectivity
- 10.01.2025 – Towards Inclusiveness and Sustainability Urban Mobility
- 09.26.2025 – Metallic glasses – Atomic-Scale Flow of the Strongest Metal on Earth
- 09.19.2025 – Advanced Engineering Research
- 09.18.2025 – Machine Learning-Based Natural Hazards Assessment at Regional Scale
- 09.05.2025 – Nature-based Solutions to Tackle Geoenvironmental Engineering Challenges
- 09.04.2025 – Advancing Surface Wave Techniques for Enhancing Site Characterization and Infrastructure Health Monitoring
- 08.28.2025 – Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Circular Economy Integration in Sustainable Waste Management
- 08.25.2025 – Stochastic home care transportation with dynamically prioritized patients: An integrated facility location, fleet sizing, and routing approach
- 08.06.2025 – HyperDiffusionFields (HyDiF):Diffusion-Guided Hypernetworks for Learning Implicit Molecular Neural Fields
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- 06.11.2025 – Forward Thinking PFAS Solutions: From Waste Remediation to Safer Alternatives
- 05.02.2025 – Prioritizing and improving at-grade highway-rail crossings in the Chicago region
- 05.01.2025 – Recyclable Materials in Geotechnical Applications
- 04.25.2025 – Reliability of Autonomous Vehicles
- 04.24.2025 – Can Landfills Support Biodiversity or Only Harm the Environment?
- 04.18.2025 – National Digital Twin for Logistics and Supply Chains Systems: Outlooks and Challenges
- 04.17.2025 – Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Variability of Municipal Solid Waste Settlements in the Field through UAV-enabled Sensing
- 04.11.2025: Integrating Social and Environmental Perspectives for a Sustainable Built Environment
- 04.10.2025 – Incorporating Sustainability into the Design of Contaminant Barriers
- 04.09.2025: Place Matters: Sociotechnical Approaches for Understanding and Addressing Tap Water Distrust in the U.S.
- 04.03.2025 – Utilization of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
- 03.27.2025 – Insights from Landfill Mining of Old MSW Dumps in India
- 03.20.2025 – Modernizing the Engineering Curriculum: Bringing Programming into the Classroom with Online Interactive Textbooks
- 03.14.2025 – Wicked Problems: Lessons from the “Pilot Maker”
- 03.13.2025 – Incineration Ashes as Secondary Resources: Extraction of Scarce Elemental Resources and Recycling into Construction Materials
- 03.11.2025 – Underground Freight Transportation for Freight Delivery in Urban Environment
- 03.07.2025 – A Physics Enhanced Residual Learning (PERL) Framework and Its Application to Vehicle Trajectory Prediction
- 03.06.2025 – Shaping the understanding of materials by thermal analysis
- 03.06.2025 – Overview of Slurry Trenching and Recent Lessons Learned
- 02.28.2025 – Material Characterization Beyond Limit
- 02.21.2025 – Using Machine Learning Models for Natural Hazard Risk Assessment in Regional Scale
- 02.13.2026 – Circular Economy Opportunities in Managing Organic Waste
- 02.06.2026 – Coal Incineration Ashes: Hydration Activity, Potential for CO₂ Capture, and Properties for Geotechnical Applications
- 01.31.2025 – Is this the real life? Virtual simulation and its role in understanding vulnerable road user safety
- 01.30.2025 – Selection of Long-Term Shear Strength Parameters for Strain Softening Geosynthetic Interfaces
- 01.24.2025 – Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals: University Education and Active Engagement in Waste Management
- 01.23.2025 – Energy Pile: Knowing Its Performance and Behavior for Sustainable Future
- 01.17.2025 – Dynamic Network Equilibrium and Time-of-Use Pricing with V2G Activities of Electric Vehicles
- 01.16.2025 – User-Friendly Interactive Models for Groundwater Education—Still Useful After 25 years!
- 12.12.2024 – Lessons Learned on Deep / Large Slurry Trenching Installations
- 12.05.2024 – Landfill Liner Performance Evaluation from Exhumed Case Histories
- 11.22.2024 – Road Construction Projects Scheduling considering Stakeholder Concerns
- 11.14.2024 – Bio-based Ground Improvement from Theory to Practice
- 11.15.2024 – The Nexus of Precision Microbiome Engineering
- 11.08.2024 – Seventy Years of Travel Forecasting: Charting the Next Frontier with AI
- 11.07.2024 – Development and Use of Low Power, Wireless Urban Soil Sensing Network for Stormwater Management
- 10.18.2024 – Advancing Transportation Systems with Sensing and Digital Twins: A Case Study on Interstate-24
- 10.17.2024 – Clean Energy Technologies: The Minerals-Water-Energy Nexus
- 10.10.2024 – New Developments in Geotechnics Applied to Mining Tailings
- 10.04.2024 – Risk-Aware Decision Making for Responsible Decarbonization
- 10.03.2024 – Performance of GCLs under Various Geoenvironmental Conditions: Focus on Hydraulic and Gas Flow Characteristics
- 09.27.2024 – Advanced Engineering Research
- 09.26.2024 – Microplastics Interactions with Clay: Questions and Insights
- 09.19.2024 – Valorization of Industrial By-Products and Mine Tailings for Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges
- 09.05.2024 – Methane Emissions from Landfills Differentially Underestimated Worldwide
- 08.05.2024 – Global Vulnerability Assessment of Mobile Telecommunication Infrastructure To Extreme Climate Hazard Events
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- 05.05.2024 – A Water Distribution Systems Analysis Perspective
- 04.30.2024 – Advancements in Sustainable Building Science Technology: Enhancing Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategies in the Built Environment
- 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