SSI Undergraduate Student Awarded CUGR Fellowship
May 28th, 2013
Michael Dandy, a junior in U海角社区鈥檚 Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept.,was the recipient of a Center for Undergraduate Research Fellowship at U海角社区 for his SSI research project titled, 鈥淓xtreme Rainfall in a Changing Climate: Developing New Methodologies to Inform Infrastructure Design,鈥. Michael鈥檚 faculty adviser on the project is Shaleen Jain who co-leads the SSI research project, 鈥淗elping Communities Weather the Storms鈥. Michael is working on understanding basic principles of hydrologic design (especially culverts) and implications of extreme storms on infrastructure vulnerability. Michael went on to present his research 27th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Michael also presented his research at the U海角社区 Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) Showcase annual event held at U海角社区 each April.