Events
Upcoming Events
Engineering Design Showcase
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
3:00 to 5:00 pm
Our Second Annual Engineering Senior Design Showcase will be held on Tuesday, April 28, 2026 from 3 pm to 5 pm in the Student Activities Center, Ballroom A and B. Our talented senior students will showcase their innovative projects and solutions. This event is a cross collaboration between the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA).
2026 CIV Department Commencement Ceremony and Reception
Thursday, May 21
12:00 to 3:00 pm
Theater and Zodiac Lobby, Charles B. Wang Center
Past Events
Spring 2026
- 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