UH concrete canoe receives invitation to nationals
The University of Hawai’i College of Engineering’s concrete canoe team is headed to Platteville, Wisconsin! …at least virtually anyway. UH earned a spot in the tournament for the first time since 1996 after being selected in the Wild Card drawing.…
ASCE Student Chapter Tops 2021 Pacific Southwest Conference
The UH Manoa ASCE Student Chapter participated in the virtual ASCE Pacific Southwest Conference (PSWC) at UCLA on March 25 to 27, 2021. Thirty six students under the guidance of faculty advisors Dr. Francis and Dr. Babcock, competed in 8…
CEE MS Student Kyle Marcelino Won Outstanding Postgraduate Researcher at International Sustainable Biowaste Management Conference
CEE MS student Kyle Rafael Marcelino was awarded as the Outstanding Postgraduate Researcher at the International Conference on Sustainable Biowaste Management (SBM 2021), held virtually between April 12-14, 2021. Kyle presented his MS research under Dr. Samir Kumar Khanal entitled…
CEE PhD Student Harrison Togia Selected for 2021 ARCS Award
The ARCS Engineering Awards Committee has selected CEE PhD student Harrison Togia to be their 2021 Bretzlaff ARCS Awardee! This is an extremely prestigious award with a $5000 scholarship (reccommended by Dr. Kim). Harrison has been conducting his PhD research…
ASCE Student Chapter once again recognized for national excellence
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa's American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter received three prestigious awards in 2021 from the ASCE national organization for the excellent activities, achievements and services demonstrated in the previous year: the Student Chapter…
UH engineering student awarded by Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
CEE Ph.D. student Abdulrahman A. Alghamdi is the recipient of a scholarship from the Government of Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia provides this scholarship to Saudi students who have successfully completed the first semester of a Ph.D. program…
Two TRB minority fellows to rep Hawai’i at TRB 100
CEE senior Braxton Chong majoring in construction engineering, and Master’s student Micah Tang are two of the 25 Minority Fellows of the Transportation Research Board for 2020 and they will be presenting their research at the 100th Annual Meeting of…
Department mourns the loss a beloved professor
It is with heavy hearts that we share the sad news of the passing of Dr. Horst Brandes, long-time geotechnical engineering faculty member in the CEE department. Horst was a friend and mentor to many and respected by students, staff…
