Student Awards

Graduating NC State College of Engineering student Kaitlyn Gainey poses for a portrait on Centennial Campus. Photo by Adam Jennings

May 4, 2026

Kaitlyn Gainey ’26: From Wolfpack Family to Finding a Home in CCEE

Where did you grow up? When did you realize you wanted to study construction engineering? I’m from Asheboro, North Carolina, which is about an hour and a half away. I…

The sun sets on a warm summer evening on Centennial Campus behind Fitts-Woolard Hall.

May 1, 2026

6 CCEE Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

It’s a record year for graduate students in CCEE. Six students have received a prestigious fellowship that will support them for three years.

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Apr 24, 2026

NC State ASCE Chapter Places 3rd at Regional Competition

NC State’s American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter overcame logistical hurdles and unexpected challenges to win third place at the 2026 ASCE Carolinas Student Symposium.

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Apr 22, 2026

Coastal Engineering Student Takes Home 1st Place Prize at 3MT Competition

NC State Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) graduate students are doing complex research involving water systems, coastal environments, roadways, structures and more. But like all researchers, these…

Jan 6, 2025

Top Honors for Timber Bridge Team at Student Design-Build Competition

A team of NC State University students won the award for the strongest bridge at the APT-PETC Student Design-Build Competition, held Nov. 15-16, 2024, in Montreal, Canada. The event, hosted…

Winning Student Design Team, Andie Toney, David Broud and Shannon Roock, with faculty adviser

Oct 24, 2024

WEFTEC Win: CCEE student team brings home first place

A team of NC State students and recent alumni from the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering won first place in the wastewater category of the Water Environment Federation's Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC) Student Design Competition. (Pictured left to right: Shannon Roock, Andie Toney, David Broud)

Oct 1, 2024

CCEE students win Big Beam competition

A team of CCEE students placed first in the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s (PCI) 2024 Engineering Design Competition. Also called the Big Beam competition, it requires a group of students and…

Aug 13, 2024

CCEE Ph.D. candidate wins Deep Foundations Institute scholarship

CCEE Ph.D. candidate Neda Jamaleddin, advised by Distinguished Professor Mo Gabr, received the John O’Malley Scholarship from the Deep Foundations Institute. The John O’Malley Scholarship Fund was launched by Keller…

Aug 9, 2024

CCEE student receives Carolinas AGC scholarship

CCEE student Grace Abdoo was one of 11 students selected for a 2024 Carolinas Associated General Contractors (AGC) Foundation Scholarship. A total of $20,000 was awarded to the students, who…

Jul 25, 2024

Global One Health Fellow Spotlight : Savanna Smith

Each year, the Global One Health Academy funds an exceptional group of graduate students with One Health related research interests. During their one-year appointment, the Global One Health Fellows are offered many…

Jul 15, 2024

CCEE team to advance to final phase of historic timber bridge competition

A team of five CCEE students — ranging from undergraduate to Ph.D. students — have advanced to Phase 3 of the Association for Preservation Technology (APT) Preservation Engineering Technical Committee…

Jul 12, 2024

CCEE master’s student Mila Yutskevych wins second place in poster competition

CCEE master’s student Mila (Liudmyla) Yutskevych, advised by Department Head Jackie Gibson and Professor Andrew Grieshop, won second place in the Outstanding Student Poster Competition at The International Society of…

Oct 23, 2023

CCEE Ph.D. student awarded 2023 Megan Cornog Memorial Highway Safety Scholarship

CCEE Ph.D. student Thomas Thelen was awarded the 2023 Megan Cornog Memorial Highway Safety Scholarship from the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC). Thelen, advised by Assistant…

Oct 16, 2023

The N.C. Section of ASCE holds 100-year celebration on Centennial Campus

The North Carolina Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers celebrated its 100-year anniversary on NC State’s Centennial Campus on October 6. The celebration included guest speakers, awards, a…

Oct 13, 2023

CCEE Ph.D. student to compete in NC State Three Minute Thesis competition

CCEE Ph.D. student Leah Weaver is among ten NC State graduate students taking center stage on Monday, November 6 at 3 p.m., in Hunt Library’s Duke Energy Hall to compete…

Oct 4, 2023

CCEE team places fourth in WEF Student Design Competition

The Environmental Engineering Project CE 481 Senior Design Team won fourth place in the Water Environment Federation (WEF) Student Design Competition on October 1 in Chicago. The design competition is…

Aug 31, 2023

CCEE Ph.D. student awarded SSA Global Travel Grant

CCEE Ph.D. student Cassie Gann-Philips was awarded a Global Travel Grant from the Seismological Society of America. The grant offers student and early-career members financial support to attend and present…

Aug 15, 2023

CCEE student chosen for AISC scholarship

Civil engineering student Alec Spano was selected for an American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Education Foundation Scholarship. He will be recognized in a future issue of AISC’s magazine Modern…

Jul 31, 2023

CCEE Ph.D. student receives honorable mention for EERI/FEMA NEHRP Graduate Fellowship

CCEE Ph.D. student Cristina Lorenzo-Velázquez received an honorable mention for the 2023-2024 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Graduate Fellowship. She…

Jul 21, 2023

CCEE Associate Professor Brina Montoya, Post-Doc Pegah Ghasemi win ASCE’s Collingwood Prize

CCEE Associate Professor Brina Montoya and Post-Doc Pegah Ghasemi were awarded the American Society of Civil Engineer (ASCE)’s 2023 Collingwood Prize for the paper “Field Implementation of Microbially Induced Calcium…