From President Ben Vinson, III, Ph.D.: I am pleased to announce the appointment of alumna Kimberly L. Jones, Ph.D., as the dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture. In this role, Dr. Jones will report to Provost Anthony K. Wutoh, Ph.D., R.Ph. A tenured full professor, she has held roles of increasing responsibility at Howard University, and most recently served as the associate provost for faculty affairs.
Category: Alumni, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
The Howard University chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (Howard NSBE) was presented the 2024-2025 Large Chapter of the Year Award by the NSBE Region II Executive Board at the annual national convention earlier this month.
Category: Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering
Howard University civil and environmental engineering senior Moriah Hamilton has been named to this year’s cohort of Schwarzman Scholars. The 150 scholars named to this year’s cohort were selected from a record high of 5,000 candidates worldwide. This year’s scholars hail from 38 countries and 105 universities from around the world.
Category: Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
Howard University civil engineering rising seniors Brooklynn Blackwell, Jordaina Hewitt, and Miles Davis received the prestigious American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Scholarship. Recent graduate William Hawkins was also recognized by the society as outstanding senior. The students were awarded at the 2024 Awards Banquet held by the ASCE National Capital Section.
Category: Civil and Environmental Engineering
As part of a collaboration that was announced and then subsequently expanded earlier this year, Amazon and Howard University have announced the 2023 recipients of their gift project awards and doctoral fellowship. These accolades recognize individuals whose proposed projects fulfill the collaboration’s mission to bring differentiated research to the forefront.
Category: Research, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Kimberly L. Jones, Ph.D. (BSCE '90) is the first African American in the EPA's 45-year history to be appointed as chair of the board that advises the nation’s top agency responsible for protecting the environment and human health.
On Tuesday, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg toured Howard University, where he visited with middle school students, Howard University students, and was briefed on the University’s expanding research footprint in transportation.
Category: Research, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
The U.S. Department of Transportation has selected Howard University to lead a Tier 1 University Transportation Center through, building on the success of the existing Howard University Transportation Research Center, which is housed in the College of Engineering and Architecture.
In an ongoing effort to create enduring pipelines of diverse science talent and differentiated research, Amazon today announced a collaboration with Howard University, a historically Black college or university (HBCU) located in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1867, Howard is a research university comprised of 14 schools and colleges. As part of the collaboration, which will be housed in the College of Engineering and Architecture, Amazon will fund faculty research projects with an initial focus on machine learning and natural language processing.
The Howard University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has awarded its first doctoral degree to Rahil Fofana.
Howard University civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Jeseth Delgado Vela, Ph.D., recently received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development award, known as the NSF CAREER award, for her biological wastewater treatment research.
Howard University civil engineering professor Lorraine Fleming has been elected to the Academy of Distinguished Alumni by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), University of California, Berkeley. She will be inducted at a banquet on the Berkeley campus on June 16, 2022. CEE faculty established the CEE Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 2012. Among the objectives of the Academy are to honor the outstanding professional accomplishments and contributions of CEE alumni and to present Academy members to students as examples of successful CEE graduates and role models. The CEE Academy shines a light on the achievements of its graduates.
Category: Alumni, Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Howard University team of engineering and architecture seniors, Howard’s Gateway, won the Director’s Award for the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2022 Design Challenge. The recipient of the Director’s Award is selected by the Solar Decathlon director to recognize a team who exhibited outstanding performance during the competition event and demonstrated passionate enthusiasm for affecting change through their participation in Solar Decathlon.
Category: Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
This year two outstanding CEA graduates will be speaking at our Spring 2022 CEA Awards and Recognition Ceremony, Abdullah Jeffers (BSChE ‘22) and Lauren Moore (BSCE ‘22). Their inspiring stories are shared in this feature.
Category: Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
Howard University Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Ph.D. student Justin Drummond was recently selected as a recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). According to NSF, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) is a highly competitive fellowship program that “recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions.”
This Black History Month, we honor our building namesakes and pioneers in engineering and architecture education, Lewis King Downing (BSCE 1921) and Howard Hamilton Mackey.
Category: Alumni, Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
The Office of the Provost recently announced the appointment of alumna Kimberly L. Jones, Ph.D., (BSCE ‘90) as associate provost for faculty affairs. In her role, Dr. Jones will work directly with President Frederick and Provost Wutoh and advise on faculty academic matters, disciplinary actions, academic processes and procedures and other assigned responsibilities.
Howard University Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Jeseth Delgado Vela, Ph.D., was recently named a 2021 Early Career Research Fellow of the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). During the two-year fellowship, Delgado Vela will study the changing ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico and its coastal zones.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student Justin Drummond has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious Intelligent Transportation Society of Maryland (ITS MD) 2021 - 2022 Student Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to full-time undergraduate or graduate students pursuing careers in the field of intelligent transportation.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Md Sami Hasnine leads the Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) funded Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) for cold chain implementation research at Howard University. The VIP framework fosters long-term faculty research-based team projects open to any student in any discipline. A vertical mentorship is practiced from the professor to undergraduate students through graduate students.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Hessam Yazdani, Ph.D. recently received an award from the NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant Program. Through this highly selective program, NVIDIA partners with academic institutions around the world to advance research in and driven by artificial intelligence and data science.
Category: Research, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Howard University Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Hessam Yazdani, Ph.D., recently received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development award, known as the CAREER award, for his advanced materials research.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Stephen Arhin, Ph.D. recently had his research paper titled “Predicting Bus Travel Times in Washington, DC Using Artificial Neural Networks” featured in the newsletter for the Transportation Research Board. The research project was funded by the Federal Highway Administration through the University Transportation Research Centers with the Mineta Transportation Institute of San Jose State University selected to lead.
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Assistant Professor Hessam Yazdani, Ph.D. recently received a 2021 National Capital Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE-NCS) Community Service Award and senior Kamau Sykes was recognized as Outstanding Graduating Senior. ASCE-NCS holds an annual awards ceremony to recognize and celebrate engineers and students who have demonstrated excellence and contributed to the civil engineering profession and the community.
This Women’s History Month we honor and share the stories of two alumnae who are dedicated College of Engineering and Architecture leaders, Hazel R. Edwards, Ph.D. and Kimberly L. Jones, Ph.D. Department of Architecture Chair Hazel R. Edwards, Ph.D., FAICP (B. Arch. ‘86) made history when she became the first female architecture department chair at Howard University (HU) in 2016. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair Kimberly L. Jones, Ph.D. (BSCE ‘90) is in our spotlight as an alumna who serves and leads her alma mater in various leadership roles. Dr. Jones also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education for the College of Engineering and Architecture.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Sophomores Jade Rutledge and Brandon Abraham recently published a paper titled “Mechanical Properties of C3N Nanotubes” in the peer-reviewed scientific journal in materials science Diamond and Related Materials. Rutledge and Abraham worked in collaboration with Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student Hamid Ghasemi under the mentorship of Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Hessam Yazdani.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Hessam Yazdani, Ph.D. has received a $570,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) to support research and education in advanced materials, water treatment and environmental chemistry, orthotics and prosthetics, and traumatic brain injury.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Claudia Marin, Ph.D., P.E. is leading a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Convergence Accelerator team to develop an Intelligent Surveillance Platform for Damage Detection and Localization of Civil Infrastructure. The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Dr. Marin a $760,000 grant over nine months for Phase I of a two-phased project through the NSF Convergence Accelerator program which is a highly competitive program designed to leverage a convergence approach to transition basic research and discovery into practice. Architecture Professor Bradford Grant will be contributing to the research alongside Dr. Marin.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Jeseth Delgado Vela is part of a team of researchers from North Carolina State University, Rice University and the University of Southern California who are collaborating on nationwide efforts to monitor SARS-CoV-2 viral particles in wastewater. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus responsible for causing COVID-19.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Seniors Travis Flowers, Grace Glenn, Darien Mercado, Binaya Paudel, Sigmund Skinner, Camille Wallace, and Alfred Wallfall placed second in the 2019 ACI Concrete Construction Competition, an international competition sponsored by the American Concrete Institute (ACI).
