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  • Landmark guidelines on natural and nature-based features is an international effort

    Nearly four years ago, a team led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and that now includes 189 scientists, engineers and resource managers from 73 worldwide organizations gathered to begin work on a set of international guidelines for utilizing Natural and Nature-Based Features. Today, the project is nearing completion with the publication of “Guidelines on the Use of Natural and Nature-Based Features for Sustainable Coastal and Fluvial Systems” expected in 2020. The guidelines will provide practitioners with the best available information concerning the conceptualization, planning, design, engineering, construction and maintenance of NNBF to support resilience and flood risk reduction for coasts, bays and estuaries, as well as river and freshwater lake systems.

  • Morton elected AIAA Fellow

    Dr. Scott Morton, a senior computational physicist in ITL’s Computational Science and Engineering Division, has been elected as an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fellow. AIAA, the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession, inducts only one member as Fellow for every 125 Associate Fellows each year, a practice that allows the recognition to be bestowed on only the most influential members of the field.

  • Baylot awarded Bronze Order of the de Fleury Medal

    Alex Baylot began his career at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center more than 30 years ago, and last month, his decades of hard work and service to the Army were recognized with one of the highest honors bestowed to employees—the Bronze Order of the de Fleury Medal.

  • Corps researchers win Department of Defense award for environmental restoration

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Dr. Kathryn Guy and Dr. Martin Page, both materials engineers at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, were part of a team of researchers who recently received the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program Project of the Year award in Environmental Restoration.

  • New software and advancements in lifecycle assessment establish limits

    Vicksburg, Miss. ⸺ Customers will likely never know how much research went into the new software called Forecasting Environmental Lifecycle Impacts, or FELCI, that Dr. Michael Mayo, a research physical scientist with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center-Environmental Laboratory, helped develop.

  • Researchers receive patent for method to recycle composite material

    VICKSBURG, Miss. ⸺ When Dr. Victor Medina, a research engineer with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Environmental Laboratory, was designing the Decontamination Effluent Treatment System, he visited his teammates to make a request.

  • Corps of Engineers Little Rock District’s Payne graduates from the Engineer Research and Development Center University

    Vicksburg, Miss. – During her recent graduation from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s University program, Little Rock District’s executive assistant, Kathleen Payne, shared her motivation in applying for the six-month program where she would be paired with mentors in her areas of interest.

  • FED Engineers take part in bridge inspection team

    Far East District (FED) structural engineers Choe, Hyon-Ku and Young C. Jung joined nine members of

  • Researchers named senior scientific technical managers

    VICKSBURG, Miss. ⸺ Four U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center team members were recently named senior scientific technical managers Sept. 29, 2019.

  • Innovation Summit revolutionizes the Corps

    VICKSBURG, Miss. ⸺ The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers drew more than 500 people from approximately 170 industry and academic organizations to its inaugural Innovation Summit held at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Headquarters, September 17-18, 2019.