{ "title": "Civil Engineering News", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/civil/news.html", "language": "en-us", "description": "", "pubDate": "Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:00:15 EST", "generator": "Cascade CMS", "posts": [ { "title": "Two researchers receive Canada’s highest honours for contributions to engineering and natural sciences", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/11/nserc-awards-krowe.html", "description": "Kerry Rowe and John Smol (Biology) have each earned major NSERC awards, acknowledging the national and global impact of their work and underscoring the university’s leadership in environmental research.", "pubDate": "Wed, 6 Nov 2024 00:00:00 EST", "author": "", "category": [ "Research", "Civil Engineering", "Smith Engineering" ] } , { "title": "Kerry Rowe awarded the 2024 NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/11/krowe-feature.html", "description": "Kerry Rowe is being honoured for his groundbreaking work designing waste containment systems that protect the world around them now and for years to come.", "pubDate": "Wed, 6 Nov 2024 00:00:00 EST", "author": "", "category": [ "Civil Engineering", "Research", "Smith Engineering" ] } , { "title": "Civil department welcomes second year students with intensive week of design, teamwork, presentations, community-building", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/10/civil-department-welcomes-second-year-students-with-civil-200.html", "description": "Civil 200 is a unique, weeklong course designed as an introduction for the students to the Civil Engineering department that facilitates a “hit the ground running” application of concepts inherent to the profession.", "pubDate": "Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "", "category": [ "Smith Engineering", "Civil Engineering" ] } , { "title": "From Brazil to Canada — from advanced diploma to (anticipated) degree in Engineering — Luigi Burjato enters third year studies via Engineering Bridge program", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/09/luigi-burjato-enters-third-year-studies-via-engineering-bridge-program.html", "description": "Luigi Burjato enters full time Civil Engineering studies this fall — in third year — thanks to the Engineering Bridge program.", "pubDate": "Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "", "category": [ "Civil Engineering" ] } , { "title": "At summer’s end, Engineering Bridge students near full transition from college courses to university studies", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/08/at-summers-end-engineering-bridge-students-near-full-transition-from-college-courses-to-university-studies.html", "description": "As the summer term nears its conclusion, Johnson and the rest of the first Engineering Bridge cohort prepare for full integration into the Smith Engineering third year of study in Civil Engineering. ", "pubDate": "Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "", "category": [ "Civil Engineering", "Smith Engineering" ] } , { "title": "Construction begins on new geotechnical infrastructure facility", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/08/construction-begins-on-new-geotechnical-infrastructure-facility.html", "description": "The Climate Adaptive infraStructure Testing and Longevity Evaluation (CASTLE) Innovation Cluster laboratory will help position Kingston as a destination for world-class academic and research engineering programs.", "pubDate": "Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "", "category": [ "Civil Engineering", "Research", "Smith Engineering" ] } , { "title": "What a Wave to Learn: Portable wave tank demonstrates water movement for young people", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/07/wave-tank-outreach-science-rendezvous.html", "description": "A new wave tank will help with community outreach and research, thanks to the Queen's University Civil Society, Beaty Water Research Centre, and Dean’s Donation Fund.", "pubDate": "Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "", "category": [ "Civil Engineering", "Smith Engineering", "Research" ] } , { "title": "Jamie Van Gulck worked on cold regions industrial site cleanups. Now he wants to improve how it's done.", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/07/jamie-van-gulck-worked-on-cold-regions-industrial-site-cleanups-now-he-wants-to-improve-how-its-done.html", "description": "Jamie Van Gulck joined Smith Engineering as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering this past fall, in a return to where his studies concluded over 20 years ago.", "pubDate": "Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "", "category": [ "Civil Engineering", "Smith Engineering", "Research" ] } , { "title": "Bridging cultures through engineering", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/07/bridging-cultures-through-engineering.html", "description": "As NSERC Scholar in Residence for Indigenous collaboration, Queen's researcher Mark Green has been providing his expertise and viewpoints for the advancement of national policies and programs that have an impact on Canada’s engineering community.", "pubDate": "Tue, 9 Jul 2024 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "", "category": [ "InEng", "Smith Engineering", "Civil Engineering" ] } , { "title": "Engineering Bridge program links college credentials and experience with a degree from Queen’s", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/07/engineering-bridge-program-links-college-credentials-and-experience-with-a-degree-from-queens.html", "description": "Mitch Connelly will spend the summer transitioning from the Civil Engineering Technology program at Durham College to the Civil Engineering program at Queen’s.", "pubDate": "Mon, 8 Jul 2024 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "", "category": [ "Civil Engineering", "Smith Engineering" ] } , { "title": "Indigenous undergraduate brings research home to First Nation community thanks to innovative experience program", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/06/indigenous-undergraduate-brings-research-home-to-first-nation-community-thanks-to-innovative-experience-program.html", "description": "Third-year Geological Engineering student Kate Sheppard worked with Élise Devoie in the STEM Indigenous Academics (STEMInA) Research Experience Program.", "pubDate": "Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "", "category": [ "Civil Engineering", "Smith Engineering", "Geological Engineering", "InEng", "Research" ] } , { "title": "Experience Program pairs Indigenous undergraduate with faculty mentor for First Nations community-based groundwater research", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/06/experience-program-pairs-indigenous-undergraduate-with-faculty-mentor-for-first-nations-community-based-groundwater-research.html", "description": "Third-year Geological Engineering student Madeleine Duncan worked with Stephanie Wright in the STEM Indigenous Academics (STEMInA) Research Experience Program.", "pubDate": "Wed, 5 Jun 2024 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "", "category": [ "InEng", "Research", "Geological Engineering", "Smith Engineering", "Civil Engineering" ] } , { "title": "NATO Women and Girls in Science 2024 Challenge names Élise Devoie a top finalist", "link": "https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/2024/05/nato-women-and-girls-in-science-2024-challenge-names-élise-devoie-a-top-finalist.html", "description": "Élise Devoie has been named one of 12 finalists of the NATO Women and Girls in Science 2024 challenge. 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