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The ASCE Student Chapter steel bridge team took 1st place overall at the ASCE Mid-Continent Student Steel Bridge Conference at Southern Illinois University in April, qualifying for the national competition in Seattle, Wash., in May. Faculty adviser is Hay

The ASCE Student Chapter steel bridge team took 1st place overall at the ASCE Mid-Continent Student Steel Bridge Conference at Southern Illinois University in April, qualifying for the national competition in Seattle, Wash., in May. Faculty adviser is Hayder Rasheed, CE.

Asad Esmaeily, CE, served as guest editor of the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics special issue in March on “Experimental Methods in Damage Detection and Wind Engineering.” He is also the recipient of the 2013 James L. Hollis Memorial Award for Excel

Asad Esmaeily, CE, served as guest editor of the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics special issue in March on “Experimental Methods in Damage Detection and Wind Engineering.” He is also the recipient of the 2013 James L. Hollis Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Engineering.

K-State’s ASCE Student Chapter has received a “Letter of Honorable Mention” from the ASCE Committee on Student Activities. Faculty advisers are Hani Melhem and Kyle Riding.

K-State’s ASCE Student Chapter has received a “Letter of Honorable Mention” from the ASCE Committee on Student Activities. Faculty advisers are Hani Melhem and Kyle Riding.

ASCE Student Chapter Placed top third among 223 ASCE student chapters

The ASCE Student Chapter was ranked among the top third of all 223 ASCE student chapters and international student groups

The path less traveled: Research is driving solutions to improve unpaved roads

January 10, 2012

MANHATTAN -- A Kansas State University graduate student sees the unpaved road ahead, and it's filled with biomaterial.

Wilson Smith, master's student in civil engineering, Independence, Mo., is working with lignin, a plant-based sustainable material that can be added to improve the quality of unpaved roads throughout Kansas.

More than 70 percent of the 98,000 miles of roads in Kansas are unpaved, Smith said.

Saluting excellence: ROTC units honor cadets for outstanding work in the classroom and field

December 9, 2011

MANHATTAN -- Outstanding academic and military performance has earned several cadets with Kansas State University's Air Force and Army ROTC programs honors.

The students were recognized at a joint awards ceremony Dec. 1 for K-State's Air Force ROTC Detachment 270 and Army ROTC Wildcat Battalion.

Awards presented included:

* American Legion Military Excellence Award, for general military excellence.

Rachel Spicer Named 2011 ASCE Student Chapter Leader of the Year

Rachel Spicer, CE senior, received the 2011 ASCE Student Chapter Leader of the Year award

Sunanda Dissanayake to Present Four Papers to ASCE

Sunanda Dissanayake, CE assoc. professor, presented four papers, all co-authored by CE graduate students, at the American Society of Civil Engineer's Transportation and Development Institute Congress, in March in Chicago, Ill.

Steve Starrett Elected as Fellow of ASCE

Steve Starrett, CE assoc. professor, was elected as Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Fewer than 5% of ASCE members achieve Fellow grade.