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Usman Moazzam is a computer science student at CWRU.

Ananya Rangavajla is a biomedical engineering student at CWRU.

Haowei Chen is a computer engineering student at CWRU.

Sarah Kugelmas is a computer science student at CWRU.

Abby Slates is a civil and environmental engineering student at CWRU.

In only their second year of participating in the Ohio Contractors Association Student Estimating Competition, the team from �Ӱ���Ƶ’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering took home the top prize.

Last month, Cleveland’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) section named Xiong (Bill) Yu, chair of �Ӱ���Ƶ’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, its Civil Engineer of the Year for his contributions to education, research, service and leadership.

“Sometimes I get emotional,” Rashidi said. “I feel that I have come back home. I really am here to try to give back what I gained from Case.”

Associate Professor Christian Carloni’s talk, “Pull-out Tests of FRP Bars Embedded in Concrete: A New Insight,” received a best presentation award at the second annual workshop organized by the Transportation Infrastructure Durability and Life Extension Center—a National University Transportation Center funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Late last year, Environmental Science and Technology, a premier journal for environmental research, awarded Huichun (Judy) Zhang, the Frank H. Neff Professor in Civil Engineering, a best paper honor for her work, “Machine Learning: New Ideas and Tools in Environmental Science and Engineering.”