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How can residents in Morocco guard against the next deadly earthquake?

CEE Professor Mehrdad Sasani was interviewed by NPR in the article “How can residents in Morocco guard against the next deadly earthquake?” He was also featured in articles by News9Live, Axios, DW and Fast Company. Related article: Morocco earthquake devastation worsened by age-old construction methods, expert says

Morocco Earthquake Devastation Worsened by Age-old Construction Methods

CEE Professor Mehrdad Sasani says that the traditional methods of construction used in rural and remote regions of Morocco are not earthquake-resistant and will continue to cause devastation during earthquakes due to limited resources.

Concern About Parking Garage Safety in Mass. in Wake of Deadly Collapse in New York City

CEE Professor Mehrdad Sasani was featured in the CBS News article “Concern about parking garage safety in Mass. in wake of deadly collapse in New York City.”

‘Very Simple Things’: Earthquake Engineers on what Went Wrong in Turkey

CEE Professor Mehrdad Sasani was featured in the Middle East Eye article “‘Very simple things’: Earthquake engineers on what went wrong in Turkey.”

Devastating Earthquakes Demonstrate the Need for Old Infrastructure Retrofits

CEE Professors Jerome Hajjar, Mehrdad Sasani, and Mishac Yegian, who are experts in the field of earthquake engineering, advise that older structures should be retrofitted with modern standards to help prevent the devastating collapses that happened during the recent earthquakes in Turkey.

2022 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations

The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2 percent of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes […]

Evaluating Earthquake Resilience in Urban Areas

CEE Professor Mehrdad Sasani was awarded a $400K NSF grant for a “Scalable Assessment of Urban Earthquake Resilience: A Novel Model-informed Deep Learning Paradigm.” This Disaster Resilience Research Grants (DRRG) project will enable assessment of earthquake resilience for large-scale urban building clusters via developing a fundamentally novel and scalable AI-empowered model. The outcome of this project can be used to evaluate earthquake resilience of building clusters in large-scale urban areas.

NGSEA Wins 2021 SEI Graduate Student Chapter of the Year

The Northeastern Graduate Structural Engineering Association (NGSEA) was selected by the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Local Activities Division as the Graduate Student Chapter of the Year for the second year in a row.

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Here’s What Could Have Caused the Building Collapse at Surfside

Mehrdad Sasani, professor of civil and environmental engineering, discusses possible causes for the Surfside, Florida, building collapse.

Mehrdad Sasani Discusses Surfside, Florida Building Collapse

Professor Mehrdad Sasani, civil and environmental engineering, was featured in several media publications discussing the devastating collapse of a condo building in Surfside, Florida. Sasani’s research interests include progressive collapse of structures; earthquake engineering; structural integrity and reliability; and building and community resilience. WCVB.com, WBAL TV, WPRI, The Boston Globe, News @ Northeastern, CNN, USA […]

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NGSEA wins Graduate Student Chapter of the Year

The Northeastern Graduate Structural Engineering Association (NGSEA) was selected by the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Local Activities Division as the Graduate Student Chapter of the Year.

A Rising Star in Civil Engineering

CEE student Jude Arbogast selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of ten “New Faces of Civil Engineering – Collegiate Edition”.

Sasani Selected as ACI Fellow

CEE Professor Mehrdad Sasani has been elected a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute for his contributions to ACI and the concrete industry.

Keyvani and Sasani Win 2016 BSCES Clemens Herschel Award

Assistant Teaching Professor Leila Keyvani Someh and Associate Professor Mehrdad Sasani won the 2016 Clemens Herschel Award from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers in recognition of their paper “Analytical and Experimental Evaluation of Progressive Collapse Resistance of a Flat-Slab Posttensioned Parking Garage”. This award celebrates individuals who have […]

Sasani Named Fellow of ASCE

CEE Associate Professor Mehrdad Sasani was named a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

$1.1M NSF Grant for Designing Resilient and Sustainable Buildings

An interdisciplinary team of Northeastern CEE professors and those from Tufts have received a $1.1M NSF grant to develop a decision and design framework for multi-hazard resilient and sustainable buildings.

Resilient & Sustainable Buildings

CIV Mehrdad Sasani, David Fannon, Matthias Ruth, & Matthew Eckelman were awarded a $1.1M NSF grant for “A Decision and Design Framework for Multi-Hazard Resilient and Sustainable Buildings”

CEE at the 2014 SEI Structures Congress

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and colleagues from Northeastern University had a strong presence at the 2014 SEI Structures Congress that took place in Boston in April.

Summer in the engineering lab

More than 20 under­grad­uate stu­dents from eight col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties throughout the country pre­sented a host of inno­v­a­tive research projects on Thursday after­noon at North­eastern University. The projects, ranging from improving breast cancer imaging to pre­venting the pro­gres­sive col­lapse of large con­crete build­ings, rep­re­sented the cul­mi­na­tion of Northeastern’s 10-​​week Research Expe­ri­ence for Under­grad­u­ates Pro­grams, which […]

Northeastern University Hosts the 2012 NSF CMMI Engineering Research and Innovation Conference

Northeastern University's College of Engineering hosted the National Science Foundation's 2012 Engineering Research and Innovation Conference for the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) from July 9-12, 2012.

Prof. Sasani Elected Chair of BSCES Structures Group

Prof. Sasani has been elected as the Chair of the Structural Technical Group of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Prof. Sasani Receives $540K NSF Grant

CIV Associate Professor Mehrdad Sasani was awarded a $540K grant from NSF’s National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program to determine the effect of seismic activity on reinforced concrete framed buildings.

Department Faculty Awarded Prestigious NSF IGERT

A research team led by Prof. Sara Wadia-Fascetti and Prof. Dionisio Bernal, as well as researchers from Gordon-CenSSIS and the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, has been awarded a 5-year, $3 million NSF Integrated Graduate and Education Research Traineeship (IGERT) grant titled "Intelligent Diagnostics for Aging Civil Infrastructure." This is a multinational, interdisciplinary program that will provide significant graduate student support and strengthen our areas of research involving infrastructure health monitoring. Prof. Akram Alshawabkeh and Prof. Mehrdad Sasani were also part of the proposal team.