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Structural Stability Theory and Practice: Buckling of Columns, Beams, Plates, and Shells combines necessary information on structural stability into a single, comprehensive resource suitable for practicing engineers and students alike. Ideal for practicing professionals in civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering, as well as upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in structural engineering courses, Structural Stability Theory […]

Congratulations to the CEM students who won 1st and 2nd at the 3MT Competition! Nidhal Badrouchi (PE) won first place with his presentation “Green Gain Solution: Reversing the impact of CO2 on the planet” and Pavan Challa (CE) won second place with his presentation “Destruction of ‘Forever’ Chemicals”. Finalists from CEM include Miranda Shanks (Geology) […]

Bismarck State College (BSC) and the University of North Dakota (UND) have created a collaborative engineering program that will result in a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from UND, earned on the BSC campus. On Tuesday, Jan. 26, leaders from the two institutions signed an agreement that will create a pathway for students to […]

The Engelstad’s shared commitment to service has taken them around the world. Image courtesy of UND Alumni Association & Foundation. Jill (Owen), ’82, and David Engelstad, ’90, bring physical therapy and engineering expertise to American Samoa On the walls of David and Jill Engelstad’s home in American Samoa hang many reflections of the United Nation’s […]

UND Civil Engineering Assistant Professor Sattar Dorafshan, pictured on the Sorlie Bridge in Grand Forks, is researching technology that can inspect infrastructure from above. Dorafshan employs unmanned aircraft to capture images of bridges and machine learning algorithms to analyze the resulting data. Photo by Mike Hess/UND Today. UND civil engineer uses drones, machine learning to […]

Articles by Frank Xiao recognized as “Highly Cited Papers” by Web of Science Feng “Frank” Xiao Each year the Web of Science group, an information and technology provider for the global scientific research community, complies its Highly Cited Papers list. Two articles by Feng “Frank” Xiao, assistant professor of civil engineering, published in Water Research (2018 impact factor: […]

Civil Engineering Assistant Professor Feng “Frank” Xiao teamed up with Civil Engineering graduate students Bosen Jin and Swetha Mallula and collaborators (Drs. Mikhail Golovko and Svetlana Golovko in UND Biomedical Sciences and Dr. Baoshan Xing at UMass Amherst) to publish “Sorption and Desorption Mechanisms of Cationic and Zwitterionic Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Natural Soils: […]

In this 2017 photo, UND Environmental Engineer Frank Xiao (second row, right) is shown with post-doc researchers, graduate students and undergraduates in the Civil Engineering Lab at the UND College of Engineering & Mines. Image courtesy of Juan Pedraza. UND researchers win federal grants to study anxiety disorders, waste-stream pollution Two UND researchers have been […]

University researcher one of only three in nation picked to analyze everyday household and industrial chemicals’ impacts on human body. UND Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Feng “Frank” Xiao has been named one of only three researchers in the country to receive a highly competitive Early Career Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) […]

The pyramids in Egypt. Stonehenge in Britain. Roman bridges. The Great Wall of China. These everlasting architectural and engineering wonders fascinate Brendan Blades. It’s a fitting allure for him, one that marries his long love of history with his more recent interest in engineering. Blades holds a bachelor’s degree in history, which was supposed to […]