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Thirty organizations competed Wednesday morning in the Herff College of Engineering Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering's second annual golf tournament. 

Dr. Brian Waldron, director of the Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research at the University of Memphis, joined Alex Coleman on WREG to discuss CAESER's research on the Memphis aquifer. 

The construction management certificate at the Herff College of Engineering enables students worldwide to gain skills that can take their construction careers to the next level in as little as two semesters.

Sohail Tufail, a research graduate student working with Herff’s Department of Civil Engineering chair Dr. Rouzbeh Nazari, spent his summer participating in the 2026 Water Prediction Innovators Summer Institute at the University of Alabama, a seven-week program that brings together PhD students from across the country to enhance their flood modeling research skills.

The award recognizes his paper, “Improving Long-Term Flood Forecasting Accuracy Using Ensemble Deep Learning Models and an Attention Mechanism,”which presents a significant advancement in predictive modeling for flood events. Dr. Nazari was formally recognized at the 2026 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, held April 26–29 in Mobile, Alabama, where he was also invited to deliver a 45-minute award lecture on the research and its broader impact.

Dr. Sabya Mishra, of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at the Herff College of Engineering, received the 2026 Willard R. Sparks Eminent Faculty Award, the highest honor for a faculty member at the University of Memphis. 

The Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering held its annual awards banquet at the Memphis Botanic Gardens on Thursday, April 30.

The University of Memphis Center for Transportation Innovation, Education and Research (C-TIER) has been awarded $2 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to research high-risk work zones in order to create safer work environments for commercial drivers and commercial driving vehicles (CMV). The project is being led by C-TIER’s Director Dr. Sabya Mishra. 

ll across the Mid-South, and in West Tennessee in particular, members of the Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research (CAESER) are literally digging for answers to better understand one of our most vital resources.