Columbia CEEM Students Amongst Top Performers at 2026 Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Student Competition

Please join us in celebrating the success of our Columbia CEEM students at the Engineering Mechanics Institute’s 2026 Student Competition. Students received their certificates at the Student Awards Ceremony on June 4 in Boulder, CO. For more information on the event and student winners, please see the ASCE article here. 

Modeling Inelasticity and Multiscale Behavior Committee Student Competition

Angelina Shen, 1st Place - Homogenization of 2D Networks 

Properties of Materials Student Paper Competition 

Xinhuan Deng, Winner - Effective Mechanical Properties of Foam Concrete Transitioning from Continuous Matrix to Cellular Microstructure 

Computational Mechanics Student Paper Competition 

Athanosios Zisimos, 3rd Place - Extended Finite Element Method for Buckling Analysis of Folded Plate Structures