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The University of New Orleans student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers is hosting the largest gathering of engineering universities along the Gulf Coast on March 7-9 as part of the 2024 American Society of Civil Engineers Gulf Coast Student Symposium.

InnovateUNO offered a platform broad enough to highlight students scholarly research and creative outputs.

Yelitza Cedeño was enthralled. The furious, but focused activity in the college’s structure lab arena was fascinating to Cedeño, who was president of the University of New Orleans student chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers.

Since its inception in 2001, the focus of the University of New Orleans Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences (PIES) has been on addressing coastal and environmental issues. A three-year, $568,000 grant for the Louisiana Board of Regents will help PIES be better suited to tackle problems facing coastal communities in New Orleans and elsewhere by providing state of the art instrumentation and equipment.

A team of University of New Orleans engineering students won the steel bridge competition at the ASCE 2023 Gulf Coast Student Symposium, held March 9-11 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile.