civil engineering

September 2, 2023

Cities at your fingertips

Two graduate students seeking a better transit experience invented an app that is used by millions across the U.S.


June 10, 2021

Less can be more

Compared to changes that add, those that subtract are harder to think of. The removal of a bridge in the Bay Area illustrates how sometimes, less is more.


September 16, 2020

Mapping landslide risk

UW engineers are developing a new mapping system to quantify landslide risk in the prone areas of Seattle


August 30, 2018

The heart of Puerto Rico

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, a team of UW engineers and scientists went to Puerto Rico to learn and to help.


December 1, 2012

Poetry priestess

Catching up with Kathleen Flenniken, ’88, a civil engineer turned poet. Recently she was appointed Washington State Poet Laureate for 2012–2014.


June 1, 2010

Greener roads

A UW team has helped develop the world’s first system to rate the sustainability of road construction and maintenance projects.


September 1, 2008

Sick from cleaning

According to a study by Anne Steinemann, a UW professor of civil and environmental engineering and public affairs, many of today’s top-selling dryer sheets, detergents and plug-in deodorizers contain toxic chemicals.


March 1, 2002

Tunnel vision

Although the tunnel he created is gone is gone, John Arthur Elliott’s legacy lives on through a scholarship in the UW Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.


March 1, 1995

Tsunami research

UW engineers have found that even localities sheltered from storm-driven waves can be wiped out by the earthquake-driven tsunamis.