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Associate Dean Deborah Goodings will use her expertise and experience to serve on a task force of the White House National Infrastructure Advisory Council

Certain types of mushrooms—or fungi—may have a place in infrastructure, potentially saving costly repairs and time. Xijin “Emma” Zhang, assistant professor in civil engineering, is researching this relatively new area of engineering and other green technology solutions for common challenges.

Celso Ferreira in 51�Թ���'s College of Engineering and Computing is studying the impact of climate change on jobs in the Chesapeake Bay region.

Research Interests: Strong, durable, and sustainable structures, with a special focus on bio-based self-healing concrete, biomolecules modified anticorrosive steel structures, fungal skin for intelligent sensing, and bio-inspired damage self-reporting structures.

Research Interests: Risk and resilience assessment of infrastructure systems, performance‐based assessment of structural systems under multi‐hazard conditions, structural adaptation engineering for climate change

Research Interests: Lean construction, construction process improvement, residential construction, design-construction interface for geotechnical infrastructure

The college remembers the legacy of friend and benefactor of the college, Sid Dewberry.

Civil engineering student found her current job working on-site at the U.S. Capitol complex through an internship with Christman Company.

Research Interests: Air quality, health, and equity using computer models and large datasets.