CMEC News
Gemma Samantha Criollo Receives Best Student Poster at AAIC
Congratulations to Gemma Samantha Criollo, who received the 2026 AAIC Best Student Poster Presentation at the Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops 2026 conference in Berkeley, CA! Gemma’s poster, […]
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Model could help communities set effective subsidies for wildfire mitigation
A model developed by Washington State University researchers could someday help communities determine how best to motivate homeowners to prepare their properties for possible wildfires. The WSU researchers developed formulas […]
Karl Englund and Kun Zhang discuss recycling agricultural plastics with Mulch Matters
Dr. Nataliya Shcherbatyuk, host of the Mulch Matters podcast, sat down with Dr. Karl Englund and Dr. Kun Zhang (California State University, Chico) to explore one of the most challenging—and […]
Can plastic farm mulch be effectively recycled? Cleanliness is key
Nearly a billion pounds of plastic film mulch is used in American agriculture each year, and most of it is dumped into landfills. New research from Washington State University shows […]
Congratulations to Aayush Shrestha, 2026 NCSEA Diversity in SE Scholarship Recipient!
Congratulations to Aayush Shrestha, who is the 2026 National Council of Structural Engineers Associations Diversity in SE Scholarship Recipient! Having lived through extremely catastrophic earthquakes and experienced the terror caused […]
Wood & Natural Fibers
Structural Engineering
Gemma Samantha Criollo Receives Best Student Poster at AAIC
Congratulations to Gemma Samantha Criollo, who received the 2026 AAIC Best Student Poster Presentation at the Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops 2026 conference in Berkeley, CA! Gemma’s poster, […]
WSU study offers realistic look at the future of sustainable aviation fuel
The United States could feasibly produce enough sustainable aviation fuel to meet roughly two-thirds of its 2030 federal target, but getting there will require overcoming major hurdles, according to a new Washington State […]
Congratulations to Mohammad Mezbah Ul Hoque!
Congratulations to Mohammad Mezbah Ul Hoque for defending his Doctor of Materials Science and Engineering dissertation, “Interfacial Control in Thermoplastic Composites: Rheological and Thermomechanical Characterization and Atomistic Modelling of Polyamide-6 […]
NHERI Tallwood team receives 2026 ASCE Norman Medal
Congratulations to the NHERI Tallwood team, who just received the 2026 ASCE Norman Medal for their 2024 paper on the NHERI Tallwood Project. The Norman Medal recognizes a paper that […]
Pouria Bahmani Receives 2024-2025 CEE Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
Congratulations to Pouria Bahmani, 2024-2025 CEE Outstanding Junior Faculty Award recipient! An excerpt from the nomination states: “Pouria works at the interface of academia and industry, and he has experience […]
Go Cougs Means…
WSU identified the promise of mass timber decades ago, said Karl Englund, research professor at the Composite Materials & Engineering Center (CMEC). The university aligned engineering, architecture, business, and materials […]
Cementitious & Bituminous Materials
Polymeric Materials
Meet us at International Mass Timber Conference!
If you’ll be in Portland for the 2026 International Mass Timber Conference, be sure to attend the Mass Timber Advanced Topics panel on Wednesday, April 1st! Pouria Bahmani, Ph.D., P.E. […]
2024 Commercialization Gap Funding Award recipients announced
The Office of Commercialization has awarded Jinwen Zhang, Xianming Shi, and six other WSU researchers with the Commercialization Gap Fund (CGF) for 2024. The CGF supports research projects with high […]
Jinwen Zhang and Xianming Shi named National Academy of Inventors Senior Members
Engineering professors Xianming Shi and Jinwen Zhang have been honored as senior members of the National Academy of Inventors. The Academy recognizes senior members for their success in patents, licensing, […]
Can plastic farm mulch be effectively recycled? Cleanliness is key
Nearly a billion pounds of plastic film mulch is used in American agriculture each year, and most of it is dumped into landfills. New research from Washington State University shows […]
Congratulations to Mohammad Mezbah Ul Hoque!
Congratulations to Mohammad Mezbah Ul Hoque for defending his Doctor of Materials Science and Engineering dissertation, “Interfacial Control in Thermoplastic Composites: Rheological and Thermomechanical Characterization and Atomistic Modelling of Polyamide-6 […]
Sharp apparel: super-powered smart wearables that could save your life one day
New high-tech fabrics created by Washington State University apparel researcher Hang Liu are bringing us comfortably closer to smart wearables that monitor our health, protect us from danger, and connect […]
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Model could help communities set effective subsidies for wildfire mitigation
A model developed by Washington State University researchers could someday help communities determine how best to motivate homeowners to prepare their properties for possible wildfires. The WSU researchers developed formulas […]
Researchers get a better picture of power failures during extreme wind events
A model developed by Washington State University researchers can predict how transmission towers might fail and collapse in extreme wind events. The work, reported in the journal, Engineering Structures, could someday help […]
Researchers receive NSF grant to help communities better plan for wildfires and power outages
Washington State University researchers have recently received a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a planning framework for wildfire-related power outages. “The overarching goal of this project is to […]
Congratulations to Aayush Shrestha, 2026 NCSEA Diversity in SE Scholarship Recipient!
Congratulations to Aayush Shrestha, who is the 2026 National Council of Structural Engineers Associations Diversity in SE Scholarship Recipient! Having lived through extremely catastrophic earthquakes and experienced the terror caused […]
Congratulations to our 2026 Spring Graduates!
CMEC is proud of our students who will be walking at the 2026 Spring Commencement: Mohammad Mezbah Ul HoqueDoctor of Philosophy in Biological and Agricultural Engineering Dissertation: Interfacial Control in […]
CMEC Spring 2026 Scholarship Awardees Announced
CMEC is delighted to announce the 2026 Spring CMEC Scholarship awardees: Arthur F. Noskowiak Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Wood Materials & Engineering Awarded to John Westall Talbott Memorial Fund Awarded […]
Awards
- Gemma Samantha Criollo Receives Best Student Poster at AAIC
- Congratulations to Aayush Shrestha, 2026 NCSEA Diversity in SE Scholarship Recipient!
- Congratulations to our 2026 Spring Graduates!
- CMEC Spring 2026 Scholarship Awardees Announced
- NHERI Tallwood team receives 2026 ASCE Norman Medal
- Congratulations to Abiola Adeniran!
- Cougar Kudos for Vikram Yadama!
- Congratulations to Maximiliano Wagemann Herrera!
- Congratulations to Evan Gonzalez, 2025 DGRP member!
- Joshah Jennings wins WSU’s 2025 Safety Award!
- Congratulations to Zihui Zhao!
- Congratulations to Kundavi Thanda!
- Michael Wolcott elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
- Voiland College names 2024 outstanding students
- Ji Yun Lee receives NSF CAREER award for community resilience research
- Voiland College names 2023 outstanding students, faculty, and staff
- WSU Extension Forestry team honored for excellence in education
- Suzanne Hamada awarded the Service Recognition Award from WSU ORSO
- Dan Dolan recognized with public safety leadership award
- Simpson Strong-Tie awards Masters degree fellowship to Madison Broers
Grants
- Pouria Bahmani Receives 2023 New Faculty Seed Grant
- Grant will develop psychological safety training for construction workers
- Carbon-negative homes research earns $2.6 million grant
- Three projects receive $150,000 in final round of Cougar Cage event
- WSU Researchers And Tacoma Eco-Building Company Receive Grant To Create Affordable, Sustainable Building Material
- National Science Foundation grant supports eco‑friendly roofing
- 2019 Wood Innovation Grant Awards select WSU For CLT Research
- Dan Dolan receives Fulbright scholar grant
- $1.5M grant supports testing laminated wood in seismic conditions
- Ashraf Alam and Liv Haselbach have received a $20,000 Portland Cement Association (PCA) Fellowship
- $40 million grant – WSU leads effort for economical, sustainable jet biofuel
- Congratulations to Jinwen Zhang, Assistant Professor, who was recently acknowledged as one of WSU’s top 150 faculty researchers based on grant award
- The Northwest Forest Products Academic Forum, sponsored by the Willamette Valley Chapter, Pacific Northwest and Inland Empire Sections of the Forest Products Society, was held May 16, 2008
- Grant opens the engineering world to undergraduates
- New technologies pay off – Faculty receive grants from Washington Technology Center
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