2019-2020 Annual Report | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

AN INVISIBLE ENEMY Civil and Environmental Engineering researchers are tackling the global Covid-19 pandemic from all angles Covid-19 has affected just about every aspect of our lives. In our efforts to combat the highly contagious virus, we have changed the way we work, the way we study, the we travel, and more.

Civil and environmental engineers are uniquely prepared to analyze every aspect of this global crisis. In fact, it’s in our School’s mission statement: We are leaders in systems-level thinking and technological innovation that define and solve complex problems at the interface of built, natural, and social systems.

The coronavirus pandemic illustrates the breadth of expertise held by our CEE faculty. From studying air and water quality, to telecommuting, transit ridership and infrastructure resilience, researchers from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering have mobilized quickly to help find solutions to our current crisis and study the lessons that can be applied to the future.

Read on to see how these engineers are stepping up to help us make sense of this unprecedented global phenomenon.

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