Upcoming Events
15
Tuesday
Order of the Engineer Ceremony
4:00 - 6:00 pm
402 Marvin Center
16
Wednesday
Pelton Senior Design Competition and Senior/Alumni BBQ
5:00 - 8:30 pm
Marvin Center Grand Ballroom
RSVP please
Recent News
Prof. Azim Eskandarian
Aired on local TV, the following video features Professor Azim Eskandarian of CEE, spotlighting his research in automotive safety and talking about his experience at the George Washington University
Welcome Message from
Professor Kim Roddis, Department Chair
It would be difficult to visualize modern society without the contributions of civil engineers. For example, before the early twentieth century, all cities were population sinks, not sources, with at least one-third of urban dwellers dying from water borne illness. The lion's share of the phenomenal 57% increase in American life expectancy in the 20th century from 49 to 77 years, came not from medicine, but from the public health improvements directly due to the provision of clean water and disposal of waste water made possible by civil engineering. [Read more...]
Features & Announcements
2013 Solar Decathlon:
GW is part of Team Capitol DC,
one of the 20 teams selected to participate in the U.S.
Department of Energy's 2013 Solar Decathlon competition
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