Accomplishments: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction

Shashi Nambisan (Transportation Research Center and Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering and Construction), along with Andrew Bennett, director of the Clark County office of traffic safety, was featured on Vegas PBS's Nevada Week program (season 4, episode 32) that discussed speeding behaviors of motorists on roadways in Southern Nevada…
Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) along with colleagues at the Iowa State University and the Australian National University published a special collection announcement paper, "Diversity and Inclusion in the Engineering-Construction Industry" in the Journal of Management in Engineering published by…
Mingon Kang (Computer Science), Ji Yoo (Medicine), Brendan Morris (Electronic and Computer Engineering), Zhaohuam Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Qiang Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Mira Han (Life Sciences), Kazem Taghva (Computer Science), and Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) were awarded National Science…
Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering), director of UNLV's Transportation Research Center, was recently appointed to serve as a voting member on the Nevada Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety. Nambisan has more than 30 years of experience in developing research enterprises and has led efforts on more than 170 projects,…
Sajjad Ahmad and Haroon Stephen,(both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) along with master's student Usha Poudel, published an article, "Evaluating Irrigation Performance and Water Productivity Using EEFlux ET and NDVI" in the Sustainability journal's special issue Machine Learning with Metaheuristic Algorithms for Sustainable…
Melissa Bartshe, Courtney Coughenour (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Haroon Stephen (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) published an article on "The relationship between tree canopy and social capital on physical activity in college students" in the Journal of American College Health. Rates of…
Jin Ouk Choi, Shreyansh Paliwal, James Bristow, Seungtaek Lee (all Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) and Hyun Kyung Chatfield (Harrah College of Hospitality) published a paper, "Construction stakeholders’ perceived benefits and barriers for environment-friendly modular construction in a hospitality centric…
Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was appointed president of the Korean-American Construction Engineering and Project Management Association for AY 2021-2022. The association is a membership association consisting principally of Korean and Korean-American construction industry professionals, college and…
Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction and the Transportation Research Center) along with Alex Hainen of the University of Alabama, made an invited presentation, “Connected & Automated Vehicle Infrastructure System (CAVIS) Program Development and Deployment: Example in Alabama,” as part of  the "State &…
Meena Ejjada (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was selected for the 2021 Dave Caldwell Scholarship awarded by the American Water Works Association. The nationwide scholarship established in memory of Brown and Caldwell recognizes a graduate student whose work advances engineering and technology in the drinking water…
Jin Ouk Choi and Binit K. Shrestha (both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) along with colleagues at the George Washington University and the Iowa State University published a paper, "Recipes for Standardized Capital Projects’ Performance Success" in the Journal of Management in Engineering published by American…
Shashi Nambisan (Civil Engineering and Transportation Research Center) was interviewed by Joe Schoenmann of KNPR about a mass transit initiative proposed along Charleston Boulevard in the city of Las Vegas. The segment aired earlier this month as part of KNPR's State of Nevada.