Siang Zhou Research Group

  • Sedhain Presents at 2024 World Bridge Engineering Conference

    Bikesh Sedhain (Graduate Research Assistant of UTRGV Civil Engineering) is presenting on 12/13/2024 at the 2024 World Bridge Engineering Conference in Miami, Florida. Bikesh’s presentation “Evaluating Support Condition Modeling Strategies for Skewed Steel I-Girder Bridges during Deck Placement” summarizes our recent research that compares multiple modeling approaches for support conditions and regarding the levels of analysis,…

  • Sedhain Selected as UTRGV CE Outstanding Graduate Student

    Sedhain Selected as UTRGV CE Outstanding Graduate Student

    Congratulations to Bikesh Sedhain for being selected as the 2024 Civil Engineering (CE) Outstanding Graduate Student! This is a great achievement to recognize his academic enthusiasm in the past year.

  • Sthapit Receives UTRGV CECS Outstanding Student Award

    Sthapit Receives UTRGV CECS Outstanding Student Award

    Congratulations to Nisha Sthapit on receiving the 2024 College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) Outstanding Student Award! Nisha’s thesis research focuses on cross-frame design and optimization for steel I-girder bridges. Nisha also recently received Rio-South TX Education & Community Development Foundation Endowed Scholarship. Congratulations on the achievements early in her academic path!

  • Sedhain Receiving Scholarships

    Congratulations to Bikesh Sedhain on receiving TSPE Edmundo Gonzalez Scholarship and UTRGV Graduate Select Scholarship, as a great start on his journey of pursuing a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering at UTRGV. Bikesh’s thesis research is focused on understanding behavior of steel I-girder bridges during construction and improve numerical simulation approaches (e.g. boundary condition representation)…

  • Welcome Sedhain to the Group

    Warmly welcome Bikesh Sedhain to the research group, and wish Bikesh a great start in his graduate study at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Bikesh has a B.S. in Civil Engineering at Tribhuvan University. His thesis research will focus on evaluating and refining bridge analysis and monitoring approaches through computational modeling and structural…

  • Welcome Sthapit to the Group

    Warmly welcome Nisha Sthapit to the research group, and wish Nisha a great start in her graduate study at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Nisha has a M.S. and a B.S. in Civil Engineering at Tribhuvan University. Her thesis research will focus on studying structural behavior of skewed and curved steel I-girder bridges…