Civil & Environmental Engineering

Graduate students Huazeng Deng and Wyatt Jenkins assemble the ground-based interferometric radar purchased with NSF MRI funds. The device can be set up and is operational within 15 minutes. Photo by L.G. Patterson

December 11, 2011

Breaking new ground: Ground-based radar device detects shifts in land, structures

  For several decades, geologic scientists have used satellite radar imagery and a technique called interferometry to remotely measure deformation [...]

Gopalaratnam's research is at the center of testing for surfaces to resurface the seven miles along San Francisco's San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, the 25th longest bridge in the world. Photo by John Huseby, CalTrans

December 7, 2011

Bridges under troubled surfaces

Research project builds on more than two decades of investigation into bridge wear

Civil engineering doctoral student Yi Hou (left) and senior civil engineering honors student Nathan Helgeson view footage recorded off of MoDOT's feeds from Southeast Missouri. Hou and Helgeson are both student researchers on a project that examined the effectiveness of dynamic message signs in the area.

December 2, 2011

MoDOT partnership creates real-time research opportunities

As a semitrailer driver trucks along the highway toward Illinois, a digital sign ahead reads, “I-57 Detour, I-55 to MO [...]