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Struck represented UMN and CEGE at an international level at the 2023 Spring ACI Concrete Convention and was president of the Interdisciplinary Trans- portation Student Organization (ITSO). He credits his leadership experience
in CEGE for opening opportunities such as the ACI Foundation Fellowship.
THESIS DEFENSES
TAREQ BASTAWISY MS, (pictured with his advisor Boya Xiong) May 22, 2023. “A simple, affordable, nature-enabled antiviral face covering for airborne coronavirus control.”
GRETCHEN GUTENBERGER MS (advised by Paige Novak and Bill Arnold) May, 2023. “Polyethylene glycol as a robust, biocompatible encapsulant
for two-stage treatment of food and beverage wastewater.”
BRANDON SLOAN Ph.D. (advised by Xue Feng) April 14, 2023, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory. “Predictive and explanatory modeling of ecosystem response to soil water stress.”
VINICIUS J. TAGUCHI Ph.D. (advised by John S. Gulliver and Jaques C. Finlay) May 4, 2023. “Understanding urban stormwater ponds as potential sources of phosphorus.”
JIAQI LI Ph.D. (advised by William A. Arnold and Raymond M. Hozalski) Monday August 21, 2023. “NDMA Formation during chloramination: temporospatial distribution of NDMA precursors, the effect of lime softening treatment, and precursor identification via non-targeted analysis.”
SEEN ON X
GRANT GOEDJEN, Ph.D. (pictured outside the Civil Engineering Building, advised by Bill Arnold) August 25, 2023. “Neonicotinoid and Fipronil Insecti- cides in Minnesota: A Statewide Survey into the Occurrence, Detection, and Removal of Neonicotinoids and Fiproles in Minnesota Surface and Groundwater Systems.”
TE XU Ph.D. (advised by Michael Levin) September 6, 2023. “Boosting Max-pressure Signal Control into Prac- tical Implementation: Methodologies and Simulation Studies in City Networks.”
Showing off their strength as well as their smarts, professors Boya Xiong (far right) and Lauren Linderrman (second from right) participated in the YMCA triathlon as part of Team Pi-athletes.
The 2023 annual student-led ASCE UMN Student Group Career Fair was a big success with 45 companies and over 114 student participants.
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