Events
See You in Fall 2026!
We are taking a brief intermission for the summer, but we will be back with a full calendar of events starting this fall.
Past Events
Spring 2026
- 2026 CIV Department Commencement Ceremony and Reception - Thursday, May 21
- 2026 CIV MS Project Presentation Day - Monday, May 11
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2026 Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities (URECA) Celebration and Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Showcase - Tuesday, May 5
- Engineering Design Showcase - Tuesday, April 28
- 2026 CIV Graduate Student Symposium - Friday, April 3
- CIV Accelerated BE/MS Program Info Session - Monday, March 30
- Chat & Chew with CIV - Monday, March 23
Fall 2025
- Doctoral Dissertation Defense - Monday, December 15 | Numerical and Experimental Explorations on Load-bearing Kirigami Metamaterials and Structures, Imtiar Jalal Niloy, PhD candidate
- Doctoral Dissertation Defense - Monday, December 8 | Multi-Modal Intelligence for Multi-Hazard Response and Urban Resilience, Chenguang Wang, PhD candidate
- Doctoral Dissertation Defense - Friday, December 5 | Multitask, Weakly-Supervised, and Gaze-Guided Deep Learning Methods for Automating Structural Inspection, Chenyu Zhang, PhD candidate
- Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, December 1 | Human-centered Agent-based Modeling for Multi-hazard Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities, Haizhong Wang, PhD
- Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, November 24 | "Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Debris Entrainment, Transport and Impact under Dam-break-induced Rapid Flow on a Varying Bathymetry", Mohammadreza Aliyari, PhD student
- Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, November 17 | Interfaces in Motion: From Porous Media to Walking Droplets, Bauyrzhan Primkulov, PhD
- CIV Undergraduate Meet & Greet - Wednesday, November 12
- Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, November 10 | "Auto Insurance in the Age of Connected and Automated Vehicles", Daniel Vignon, PhD
- Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, November 3 | "Enabling construction robot learning from multi-modal demonstrations", Zhengbo Zou, PhD
- Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, October 27 | "Disaster Resilience-focused Applications in Transportation", Eren Erman Özgüven, PhD
- Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, October 20 | "Toward Scientifically Consistent and Generalizable Geohazard Modeling through Physics-Informed Machine Learning", Te Pei, PhD
- CIV Grad Pumpkin Carving Social - Friday, October 17
- Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, October 6 | "Inverse Learning and Intervention of Transportation Network Equilibrium", Zhichen Liu, PhD
- CIV Freshman/Sophomore Ice Cream Social - Monday, September 29
- Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, September 29 | "Large-Eddy Simulation of Tidal Currents in Portsmouth Harbor: Implications for Turbine Array Design", Meriç Aksen, PhD student
- Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, September 15 | "Toward a Driving Scene Foundation Model: Acquiring and Accumulating Knowledge from Diverse Datasets"; Ke Li, PhD student