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Daniel Ocasio Selected as Class of 17 Valedictorian

Congratulations to Daniel Ocasio, who will deliver the Valedictory Address at the May 25 undergraduate commencement ceremony. Daniel is a Chemical Engineering major, a Meyerhoff Scholar, and a...

Posted: May 5, 2017, 2:34 PM

Sheniqua Brown receives meritorious service award

Sheniqua Brown, a Chemical Engineering doctoral student in the Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program, was awarded the Victor E. and Dorothy M. McIntosh Award. The award, provided by donors in the...

Posted: April 27, 2017, 2:06 PM

CBEE students win prizes in national paper competition

James Sanders, Meg Jalalizadeh place 2nd, 3rd respectively

Environmental Engineering Ph.D. students, James Sanders and Meg Jalalizadeh won the 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively at the Geosyntec sponsored student paper competition. The firm's announcement is...

Posted: April 19, 2017, 2:23 PM

CBEE students win highly-competitive national awards

The CBEE department is proud to congratulate our students on recent awards: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes...

Posted: April 14, 2017, 12:36 PM

Lee Blaney receives NSF CAREER Award

will advance research on contaminants in urban streams

Lee Blaney receives NSF CAREER Award to address contaminants of emerging concern in urban streams March 28, 2017 12:38 pm Megan Hanks Lee Blaney, assistant professor of chemical, biochemical and...

Posted: March 28, 2017, 2:00 PM

CBEE Students Win UMBC Battle of the Engineers

Feb. 25 competition marked culmination of Engineers Week

Battle of the Engineers is the conclusion to the 3rd annual campus wide Engineers Week celebration. Undergraduate students from each of the three engineering disciplines within COEIT competed...

Posted: February 27, 2017, 9:04 AM

New study abroad field course in Costa Rica

Study climate change impacts in Costa Rica

We are happy to announce that a new faculty-led international field course this summer to Costa Rica (Course dates: May 29 - June 14, 2017) This course will be led by Dr. Maggie Holland &...

Posted: February 20, 2017, 5:32 PM

Jada Damond and Blair Landon named Hill-Lopes Scholars

CBEE students highlighted in UMBC News story

January 26, 2017 12:09 pm Sarah Hansen UMBC celebrates launch of Hill-Lopes Scholars Program focused on supporting women in STEM Barbara Hill and Ancelmo Lopes were drawn to UMBC by the...

Posted: January 26, 2017, 1:50 PM

Govind Rao receives Connected World 2017 Pioneers Award

Rao named one of ten trailblazers in research and education

By Connected World Staff | 11/30/2016 Empowering the IoT One of the areas that has benefitted immensely from the IoT (Internet of Things) is healthcare, because the technology has...

Posted: December 13, 2016, 2:44 PM

James Sanders wins 2nd place at poster competition

James Sanders, who is pursuing a PhD in Environmental Engineering, placed 2nd at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Trainee poster competition at the 50th Anniversary...

Posted: December 9, 2016, 12:36 PM