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Civil and environmental engineering professor Mishac K. Yegian can hook you up (and shake them down).

ASCE students watched as CEE Professor Mishac Yegian put their gingerbread houses on the earthquake simulator during the annual Struc­turally Stable Gin­ger­bread House Com­pe­ti­tion.

CEE Professors Mishac Yegian and Akram Alshawabkeh were awarded a $342K NSF grant for “Field Application of Induced Partial Saturation (IPS) for Liquefaction Mitigation”.

The stage was set on Wednesday for the Northeastern student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ annual gingerbread house competition. And then that stage shook, and shook, and shook until none of the gingerbread houses were standing. This friendly...

A group consisting of Ece Eseller-Bayat, Ph.D., M.ASCE; Mishac K. Yegian, P.E., F.ASCE; Akram Alshawabkeh, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE; and Seda Gokyer, S.M.ASCE have received the 2014 ASCE Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award for their research on liquefaction mitigation by Induced...

Civil engineering seniors Sarah Casey (third from left) and Kathleen Keen (second from right) watch along with other students as gingerbread houses are tested on an earthquake-simulating shake table as part of a student competition on Wednesday. The lab run by Mishac...

M&Ms shot across the room, candy canes tumbled over and mini marshmallows exploded into the air like popcorn kernels on a hot stovetop. No, this wasn’t a failed attempt at making a commercial for a candy store. Instead, it was the lively scene on Wednesday at the...

Distinguished Professor of Engineering Mishac Yegian points out the seismograph reading measured from Northeastern’s recording station in Weston, Mass., of the earthquake that took place Tuesday evening in Maine.

Some of the nation’s top researchers gathered at Northeastern University this week for the National Science Foundation’s annual Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, which is being hosted by the College of Engineering.

CEE Professors Mishac Yegian and Akram Alshawabkeh were featured in ASCE Civil Engineering magazine for their upcoming field tests using Induced Partial Saturation (IPS) to prevent soil liquefaction during earthquakes.

Modern buildings are designed to withstand the forces of earthquakes. But what about gingerbread houses? That’s what a group of engineering students sought to discover on Wednesday, as they put their holiday structures to the test in the Department of Civil and...

Distinguished Engineering Professor Mishac Yegian leads his research team in monitoring the tremors that shook the East Coast yesterday.

Professors Mishac Yegian and Akram Alshawabkeh were awarded a $1.2M NSF grant from the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) to use Induced Partial Saturation (IPS) to try and prevent ground liquefaction from occurring under structures during earthquakes.

Prof. Mishac Yegian of Northeastern University in collaboration with Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has conducted research on evaluation of a mechanical isolator to protect four MFA sculptures against earthquakes in Nagoya Japan.

Northeastern civil and environmental engineering professor Mishac Yegian recently completed a comprehensive seismic evaluation of the Brooklyn Bridge. The grand dame of bridges, he found, is made of sturdy stuff.

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Prof. Mishac Yegian’s research made the cover of Civil Engineering Magazine. Prof. Yegian’s modeling of the Brooklyn Bridge evaluates its ability to withstand a 2,500-year seismic event.