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Buttlar furthers work to add plastic wastes to asphalt mixtures
December 14, 2021

Buttlar furthers work to add plastic wastes to asphalt mixtures

by Janese Heavin
Glen Barton Chair in Flexible Pavements Bill Buttlar in the Mizzou Asphalt Pavement and Innovation Lab. Plastics are made to last hundreds of years. That’s a problem when you’re talking about bottles, bags and straws discarded after one use. However, for roads that need to support heavy traffic over the course of decades, plastic could [...]
CEE alumni mentor students
November 10, 2021

CEE alumni mentor students

by Michael Zweifel

The Civil Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni held its first Student Mentoring Session on Monday, Nov. 8 at Mizzou Engineering. “This is the inaugural mentoring event for civil and environmental engineering (CEE) led by our academy of distinguished alumni (CEADA),” Department Chair Praveen Edara said. “We want to make this event a regular occurrence so […]

Civil Engineer helps MoDOT study New Madrid evacuation routes
October 25, 2021

Civil Engineer helps MoDOT study New Madrid evacuation routes

by Janese Heavin
Professor Praveen Edara is working with MoDOT to study evacuation plans in New Madrid and surrounding counties. Were a major earthquake to rock the New Madrid fault line in southeast Missouri, it’s likely people would be displaced from their homes. But where would they go and how would they get there? That’s a question a [...]
Researchers study effectiveness of rumble strips in work zones
October 8, 2021

Researchers study effectiveness of rumble strips in work zones

by Janese Heavin
Mizzou Engineers are helping state transportation officials investigate the effectiveness of temporary rumble strips in work zones. Rumble strips are safety features placed over the road to alert motorists by causing an audible vibration transmitted from vehicle wheels. The Missouri Department of Transportation uses them ahead of work zones, said Henry Brown, principal investigator of [...]
Meet Praveen Edara
August 30, 2021

Meet Praveen Edara

by Janese Heavin
Diverging diamond interchanges have been shown to reduce the number of car crashes by more than half and save states millions of dollars in construction costs. But before the first one debuted in 2009, researchers across the country spent years testing them in simulated environments. Meet Praveen Edara, who was among the first to study [...]
‘Driving’ innovation to help eliminate plastic waste
August 25, 2021

‘Driving’ innovation to help eliminate plastic waste

by Engineering Admin
Eric Stann | MU News Bureau Each year in the United States, millions of tons of plastic waste are discarded and not recycled, leading to serious environmental problems. In an effort to help keep this waste from ending up in the environment, engineers at the University of Missouri are partnering with Dow and the Missouri [...]
Training the next generation transportation workforce
July 27, 2021

Training the next generation transportation workforce

by Janese Heavin
Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) employees will receive more realistic work zone inspection training using virtual reality (VR) thanks to a Mizzou Engineering team. Praveen Edara, chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is leading the project, which received funding from the Federal Highway Administration’s Accelerated Market Readiness Program earlier this year. This two-year $460,238 grant [...]
Striving to serve the public
July 12, 2021

Striving to serve the public

by Michael Zweifel

As the new president and CEO of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) regional transit agency, Nadine Lee, BS CiE ’92, believes in serving all people well and connecting her daily work to broader societal goals. “Everything we do relates back to the public good,” she said. “It’s important to keep this in mind when […]

NSF CAREER grant to help bridge technology and transportation
March 31, 2021

NSF CAREER grant to help bridge technology and transportation

by Michael Zweifel

  Yaw Adu-Gyamfi, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering (CEE), recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant. This award is to further his current work with his DASH platform plus additional proposals with deep learning and adaptive computing to design management solutions for transportation systems. “The DASH project […]

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