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UD's Engineers Without Borders wins Clinton Global Initiative award
The University of Delaware chapter of Engineers Without Borders (UD-EWB) has been awarded a prestigious Outstanding Commitment Award from the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The award carries with it a $10,000 grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation to assist with UD-EWB's solar water pumping project in a rural village in Cameroon.
McNeil servces on NRC Critical Infrastructure Committee
Sue McNeil, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, recently served on an ad hoc committee of experts appointed by the National Research Council (NRC) to identify and frame fundamental challenges in moving toward critical infrastructure systems that are physically, economically, and environmentally sustainable.
Allen and DiToro receive $1.84 million DOD grant
CEE professors Herb Allen and Dominic DiToro have received a four-year $1.84 million grant from the Department of Defense's Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) to develop mathematical models that will enable accurate prediction of the fate and transport of munitions constituents in soil.
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Jack Puleo has won the NSF Early Career Development Award
Jack Puleo, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to study swash zone sediment transport. The swash zone is the area near the shoreline where waves wash up and down the beach face.

The five-year $444,229 award is aimed at developing a broader understanding of the physics of coastal sediment transport in this area, thereby leading to significant improvement in the ability to predict such coastal phenomena as beach erosion and beach nourishment performance.

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