Department of Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering
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Faculty highlights
![Dr. Detlef Knappe works with graduate and post doc students in his lab on Centennial campus. Dr. Knappe is interested in drinking water quality and treatment, water reuse, organic micropollutants, development of water treatment processes for polar and persistent organic pollutants, and the fate of organic pollutants in solid waste landfills.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/MAH1998-cropped-resized.jpg)
NC State researchers study enhanced water treatment methods to remove PFAS
![Minerva Bonilla is wearing a blue top while standing in front of green bushes.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/minerva-bonilla-header.jpg)
Minerva Bonilla, Ph.D. ’23, is helping make our intersections safer
![NC State ROTC cadet Rileigh Sevigny attended Project Tuskegee 2.0 in Abilene Texas this summer, and learned about B-1 bombers.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/rileigh-sevigny-2-1.jpg)
Engineering students, ROTC cadets learn new skills at summer programs
![a small brick building with five wooden doors that open directly into a tidy, dirt courtyard.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/pit-latrine-header.jpg)
Poop, Pee and Microbes: The complicated ecology of pit latrines
![A drawing on paper from the HELIOS project displayed on dry erase board.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_9100.jpg)
HELIOS 25th anniversary event was out of this world
![From left: Dean Jim Pfaendtner, Admiral Daryl L. Caudle, Deborah Bell Young and Robert E. Troxler.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DEA-recipients-2023.jpg)
Three honored as Distinguished Engineering Alumni
![Seated at several long tables, attendees of the The Hunt Library-hosted DENT 2023 conference on Sept. 20, listen to a speaker presentation.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/09-20-2023-DENT-Conference-01.jpg)
The Libraries hosts Digital Engineering in Nuclear Technology conference
![Charles Townsend, second from right, holds two awards. He is joined by three other people, two to his right and one to his left.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TOwnsend_PENC-Awards.jpeg)