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Amir Behzadan is a professor in the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering. He is also a fellow in the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), where the Natural Hazards Center is located. Behzadan completed his BS in civil engineering at Sharif University of Technology in...

Bob Davis joined the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering faculty in January 2023 as a scholar in residence, but he is no stranger to CU Boulder or the department. His CU position is part-time, as Davis also continues in his role as chief lighting research engineer at Pacific...

Ben Stanford is joining the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering as a scholar in residence in the civil engineering area, bringing practical consulting experience to the courses he teaches. Stanford earned his BS degree in chemistry from Warren Wilson College in 1997 and his PhD in environmental sciences...

Steven Ayer is an associate professor in the University of Colorado Boulder’s Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering . Prior to joining CU Boulder, Ayer was a faculty member at Arizona State University in the Del E. Webb School of Construction. Before beginning his faculty career at ASU, he...

The Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering welcomed four new faculty members for 2023-2024. Meet the team and see why we're so excited about these talented individuals:

University of Colorado Boulder researchers are advancing water resource management in the South Caucasus through a partnership with Deloitte Consulting. Associate Professor Evan Thomas, director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering & Resilience, is the principal investigator on the contract.

The Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) is hosting the first post-Covid RiverWare User Group meeting on August 29-30. The agenda includes presentations by many users on their RiverWare applications including the Bureau of Reclamation on the Colorado River Basin modeling, Bonneville Power on managing the Columbia River Basin, the International Boundary and Water Commission on binational management of the Rio Grande, the Tribal Water Settlement in Oklahoma and the Cooperative management of the Nile River.

Structural Engineering Professor Mija Hubler and her team of researchers and partners are developing a technology that infuses concrete with self-repair capabilities found in living organisms. The project has landed a $10 million Department of Defense grant.

Water Resources Associate Professor Aditi Bhaskar is studying a lesser-known consequence of irrigation efficiency: the potential reduction in streamflow, which could have implications for urban stream health, recreation and downstream users.

Associate Professor Wil Srubar has been nominated for the 2023 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award for his research re-imagining sustainable building materials. His lab conducts major research into biomimetic and living materials that have the potential to drastically reduce environmental pollution caused by construction activities around the globe.