Civil engineering

Christopher Higgins, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been recognized for the top environmental restoration project of the year by the U.S. Department

Junko Munakata Marr is the new head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines.

The new research and educational collaboration between Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University and University of Arizona launched in June 2020.

“While there has been an emphasis on identifying and cleaning up drinking water impacted by PFASs, much less attention has been given to assessing risks from consuming produce irrigated with PFAS-contaminated water,” Mines PhD candidate Juliane Brown said.

Through these projects and others, Mines faculty and students are giving Mines an upper hand in responding to the pandemic and its challenges.

The former head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department has served as the interim dean of EREP since July.

The team of environmental engineering students took first place in the 2020 WEF Student Design Competition for a design to help Colorado Springs Utilities achieve compliance with new state regulations on effluent.

Griffiths was recognized for his "important contributions in universally increasing the safety and economy of geotechnical engineering projects."

The new programs draw from the core areas of expertise Mines is known for — from civil and environmental engineering to extraction to materials science — to create an interdisciplinary field of study that prepares students for the next step in their careers.

The Center for Underground at Colorado School of Mines recently was awarded a major contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design and demonstrate rapid tunneling