News
Mon, 12/08/2025
Giving, simplified
Alumni voices and clear answers to common giving questions this season.
Mon, 12/08/2025
Honors & awards
Congratulations to students and faculty who have received awards, scholarships, promotions and other honors.
Mon, 12/08/2025
Dorothy Reed retires from CEE
Dorothy Reed retires from CEE after four decades of teaching, research and national service in wind engineering.
Mon, 12/08/2025
Message from the chair
Chair Bart Nijssen on record enrollment, funding shifts and concrete ways to support and partner with CEE this year.
Mon, 12/08/2025
Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professorship announced
A new CEE professorship honors Daniel J. Evans and bolsters faculty recruitment and retention in service of the public good.
Mon, 11/24/2025
From field to film, measuring “missing snow”
UW hydrology team quantifies snow lost to the air and shows the work behind the numbers in a short film.
Wed, 11/19/2025
CEE sees strong enrollment gains
CEE welcomes 223 juniors, up from 146, as outreach and industry demand draw more students to the department.
Wed, 11/05/2025 | San Francisco Chronicle
Learning from California’s earthquake legacy
CEE’s Joseph Wartman writes in the San Francisco Chronicle about how California’s approach to earthquake safety could guide its wildfire preparedness.
Mon, 10/27/2025
A day in CEE’s construction materials lab
Undergrads mix, test and break concrete to learn how materials behave in the real world.
Fri, 10/17/2025 | KNKX
What's in a station name
Ryan Avery of the Washington State Transportation Center on how Sound Transit names its light rail stops, and why local riders shape the final choice.