Jerome (Jerry) Hajjar

Andrew Myers, an assis­tant pro­fessor of civil and envi­ron­mental engi­neering, recently received a $325,000 NSF grant to model the vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties of wind tur­bines during hurricanes.

The Col­lege of Engi­neering is hosting the National Sci­ence Foundation’s annual Engi­neering Research and Inno­va­tion Con­fer­ence, which will focus on trans­forming the field through the for­ma­tion of robust partnerships.

Jerry Hajjar, chair and pro­fessor in the Depart­ment of Civil and Envi­ron­mental Engi­neering, has received a new NSF grant to fur­ther his research in the area of sus­tain­able building design — which he envi­sions as an industry of the future.

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity engi­neering stu­dents have redesigned a garden in Boston’s Fenway neigh­bor­hood for com­mu­nity mem­bers with spe­cial needs, com­plete with raised tables and planting beds. Stu­dents in the North­eastern chapter … read more »

Pro­fessor Jerome Hajjar, chair of the Depart­ment of Civil and Envi­ron­mental Engi­neering, assesses yesterday’s earth­quake and how build­ings in older cities, such as Boston, are equipped to resist such events.

Civil engi­neering stu­dents whose canoe design lit­er­ally fell apart last year use their hard-​​won wisdom to score well in regional competition.

On Friday, a mas­sive 8.9-magnitude earth­quake struck off Japan’s north­east coast, causing wide­spread destruc­tion and thou­sands of deaths. It was one of the world’s largest quakes of the last cen­tury. Jerome Hajjar, chair of the Depart­ment of Civil and Envi­ron­mental Engi­neering, studies earth­quakes as a struc­tural engi­neer. Here, he assesses the impact of this quake and the field of earth­quake engineering.