Events

2026 CIV MS Project Presentation Day

Monday, May 11
8:50 am to 12:00 pm
301 Charles B. Wang Center

• "Evaluating Mechanical Performance of Polymer Sealant on Asphalt Pavement" by Tina Zhang (Advisor: Burgueño)
• "Modelling The Interaction of a Peristaltic Robot With a Compliant Conduit" by Sujata Tank (Advisor: Celli)
• "Dynamic Response of Cantilevered Bi-Stable Structures" by Joseph Caracci (Advisor: Celli)
• "Bistable Pop-Up Domes" by Fabian Firu (Advisor: Celli)
• "High-fidelity modeling of wake flow and sediment dynamics around renewable energy devices: vertical- and horizontal-axis marine hydrokinetic turbines" by Gabriel Narh (Advisor: Khosronejad)
• "3D Concrete Printing Using Sustainable Materials" by Mariz Baslious (Advisor: Krstić)

2026 CIV Department Commencement Ceremony and Reception

Thursday, May 21
12:00 to 3:00 pm
Theater and Zodiac Lobby, Charles B. Wang Center

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Past Events

Spring 2026

• 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