Honors & awards

Associate Professor Paolo Calvi was part of the team that won THE PLAN Award 2025 for the Torre Piloti, a new port control tower in Genoa, Italy. The award is an annual international prize recognizing excellence in architecture, interior design and urban planning. Calvi installed an active mass damper system that senses and corrects for sway to keep the tower steady in high winds. The project was also a finalist at the 2025 International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering Project and Technology Awards and the Institution of Structural Engineers’ 2025 Structural Awards.

Boeing International Professor Julian Marshall was named to Clarivate’s 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list, which honors researchers whose work ranks in the top 1% of citations over the past decade.

Marshall was also a finalist for the UW’s Excellence in Global Engagement Award, the university’s highest recognition for global teaching, research and service. He was recognized for his leadership of the Grand Challenges Impact Lab in Bengaluru, India.

Professor Yinhai Wang, the Thomas and Marilyn Nielsen Endowed Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the 2025 Outstanding Research Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, recognizing his contributions to transportation data science, traffic sensing, edge computing and artificial intelligence for smart transportation.

Michael Dodd was promoted to professor. Dodd’s research focuses on using chemicals and light to remove pollutants from water to make drinking water and wastewater treatment safer and more effective. He also studies how pollutants travel in the environment, and designs solutions for city plants and smaller local systems.

Michael Motley was promoted to professor. Motley studies how ocean waves and tsunamis affect coastal structures. Current projects include improving the resilience of coastal infrastructure and boosting the performance of turbines that harvest energy from tides and currents. He holds the John R. Kiely Endowed Professorship.

Rebecca Neumann was promoted to professor. Neumann’s research group examines how physical, chemical and biological factors interact in soils, aquifers and surface waters. Her work addresses challenges such as water quality and contaminant transport in a changing climate.

Don MacKenzie was promoted to professor. MacKenzie’s lab researches how new transportation technologies and policy affect sustainability and access. His work informs public decisions related to shared mobility, vehicle electrification and transport equity. He holds the Allan & Inger Osberg Endowed Professorship.

Julian Yamaura was promoted to associate teaching professor. Yamaura teaches courses on construction materials, temporary structures and infrastructure methods, and directs the department’s professional master’s programs in construction and energy infrastructure. He is the Tom and Marilyn Draeger/Beavers Charitable Trust Term Faculty Fellow.

Jeremy Chan (MSCE ’25) received the UW's Graduate School’s 2025 Distinguished Thesis Award in the Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering category. His master’s thesis examines how turning streets into spaces for outdoor dining, plazas, biking and transit priority can affect congestion and total vehicle miles traveled citywide. He is only the second CEE graduate student to receive this award.

Ph.D. student Rubina Singh received a Best Paper Award at the 38th Electric Vehicle Symposium in Gothenburg, Sweden, for “Poor Reliability of Public Charging Stations Can Impede the Growth of the Electric Vehicle Market.” Her paper was recognized as one of the top two in her category out of approximately 400 submissions.

Seniors Tiffany Tang and Sergei Fedotov received the 2025–26 Coral Sales Company/Douglas P. Daniels Scholarship, awarded annually to two UW students preparing for careers in transportation engineering or highway construction in the Pacific Northwest. The scholarship stems from a 48-year partnership between CEE and the Coral Sales Company.

The UW’s Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) student chapter placed third in the ITE International Collegiate Traffic Bowl, a quiz competition on transportation planning and engineering. Team members included graduate student Peter Yu (captain) and undergraduates Connor Morse and Tuyet Hoa.

The chapter also won first place in the ITE Sandbox Design Competition, where students propose solutions to real-world transportation problems. Team members included undergraduates Connor Morse, Thomas Nguyen and Connor Mitchell.