Author: Fernanda Cruz Rios
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CIRCLE lab PhD candidate Cagla Keles awarded Editor’s Choice Article for her work on Buildings
Congratulations to Cagla Keles, CIRCLE lab’s PhD candidate whose paper published last year was selected as Editor’s choice 😊🎉 Well done, Cagla! Access her paper here: Digital Technologies and Circular Economy in the Construction Sector: A Review of Lifecycle Applications, Integrations, Potential, and Limitations
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New paper out! CIRCLE lab collaborated with Drexel’s Water lab to understand the impact of circular water strategies in urban resilience
Have you ever wondered about the impacts of circular economy in urban resilience? What would happen if the City invested in household strategies like rainwater harvesting, greywater reuse, and high-efficient water fixtures like showerheads, toilets, and washing machines in a dense flood-prone neighborhood with combined sewer systems? Would that help reduce flooding and combined sewer…
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ENGR 113 students play Daybreak: A climate change board game
Dr. Cruz Rios introduced Daybreak, a collaborative Climate Change game, to the First-Year Engineering Design classroom! Watch the video here “This game showed me how [in] real life it is important to have everyone on the same page. Even if one country is doing something to help fix the issue and all the other countries…
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Senior design project co-advised by Dr. Cruz Rios featured on Drexel News
See the whole story here: Senior Design Team Tackles Affordable Housing With Mass Timber Proposal | Drexel Engineering or read below: A team of five senior civil and architectural engineering students is working to address Philadelphia’s affordable housing shortage with a mixed-use development proposal for a long-vacant site in the city’s Hunting Park neighborhood, and…
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Dr. Cruz Rios’s innovative learning activities are featured in Drexel social media
What a fun start of the Spring term! I confess that I was nervous because I had no idea how first-year engineering students would react to the idea of a collage workshop, but they really surprised me in the best way! In our ENGR113 (first year engineering design) session, students will design a climate resilience…
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Dr. Cruz Rios presents at the PA Manufacturing Expo
Drexel’s CAEE was well represented at the 2026 PA Manufacturing Expo! Thanks for driving us, Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou, PhD, PE, and thanks Yaghoob (Amir) Farnam, Noelle, and Pranav for the company! Mostly, big thanks to Mohsen Bahmanyar for his amazing work on this project! This work was funded by the PA Department of Community and Economic…
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Dr. Cruz Rios organizes and mediates AEESP webinar on Integrating Sustainability into Core Engineering Courses
On behalf of the AEESP Education Committee, I’m excited with the results of our webinar: Integrating Sustainability into Core Engineering Courses! The session started with a featured presentation by Cindy Anderson introducing the Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Framework, which offers competencies and curricular resources to support sustainability integration across engineering education. The webinar also…
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Dr. Cruz Rios is awarded Longsview Fellowship for collaborative work at the intersection of circular economy and computer vision
Yay, more funding coming our way! One day, Jin Wen organized an event for junior faculty from the college of engineering and college of computing (now merged). The goal was for faculty to briefly present their research and find opportunities for collaboration. That’s when I met Feng Liu and thought “wait, what if…”. We talked…
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CIRCLE lab PhD candidate Cagla Keles presents her research at the Graduate Student Seminar
This is why I love my job! I couldn’t tell you my favorite part: help preparing the next generation of purpose-driven engineers? Getting to advise amazing PhD students and help them find and pursue their dreams? Collaborating with such a warm, welcoming, supportive group of people I get to call colleagues? I don’t know. But…
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New conference paper from CIRCLE lab PhD candidate Cagla Keles on building demolition flows
Our work has been published in the ASCE Library as part of AEI 2025: Delivering Future Ready Buildings—An Integrated Approach 🎉 Our paper, “Developing a Framework for Post-Demolition Material Flow Analysis in Urban Residential Buildings,” presents a bottom-up, archetype-based framework to quantify demolition material flows using public records, GIS, photogrammetry, and local building data (Philadelphia/Fishtown…