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2025

2024/03/25 Guest Speaker Reed Kirkman Jr. Construction Design Department Manager at Environmental Air Systems, LLC  visited the CM 358 Estimation Software Application class at NCAT.

2025/03/21 Dr. Jiang has been named recipient of the 2024-25 Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

2025/03/17 LEGO Cobot team Carlton Henry, Andrea Spool-White, and Colin Mitchell presented at the 2025 Sci-Tech Week Innovation Challenge as 1 of 5 finalists.

2025/02/07 Dr. Jiang participated in the Understanding and Launching a Scholarship of Teaching Study (SoTL) Workshop

2025/01/15 Dr. Jiang presented LEGO Cobot at the Summerfield Charter Academy College and Career Day

2025/01/01 Dr. Jiang created the demo video and web page for LEGO Cobot.

2024

2024/11/19 Dr. Jiang hosted the HUD site visiting at CIAHSC. Dr. Calvin  Johnson (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Research, Evaluation, and Monitoring) evaluate the CIAHSC project progress.  

2024/11/07 Dr. Jiang participated in the SFPE 2025 AI Summit Program Committee meeting

2024/11/01 Dr. Jiang presented at the 2024 International Festival at Summerfield Charter Academy

2024/10/25 Dr. Jiang participated in the Sustainable Demolition Research and Practices Against Climate Change Workshop

2024/10/24 Dr. Jiang presented "Enhancing Low-Income, Manufactured Housing Community Quality in Guilford County, North Carolina, by Applying Artificial Intelligence-Based Built Environment Characterization" at the 2024 Provost’s Faculty Fellows Campus Presentation

2024/10/09 Dr. Jiang attended the NVIDIA AI Summit Conference

2024/10/07 Dr. Jiang participated in Generative AI with Diffusion Models Workshop

2024/10/03 Dr. Jiang presented "Automated As-is Façade Modeling of High-rise Buildings Using Drone and AI" at InnovatHers Club

2024/09/16 Dr. Jiang attended 2024 Annual National HBCU Week Conference and met with HUD COE project GTR Maria Milligan

2024/09/14 Dr. Jiang and students won 1st Place at the 2024 AAAS HBCU Marking and Innovation Showcase in Washington, D.C. Congratulations!

2024/09/12 Dr. Jiang's student Ahmed Omer (who is carrying the equipment on photo below) has been selected to participate in the NC A&T – STEMunity Scholars Program. Congratulations!

2024/09/09 Dr. Jiang presented poster "Digitalization of Cities and Departments of Transportation Existing Storm Drainage Network for Better Stormwater Management" at USEPA & NC A&T ENVIRONMENTAL SYMPOSIUM

2024/08/29 Dr. Jiang presented at 2024 Provost’s Faculty Research Fellows Luncheon and 90-second Elevator Pitch

2024/08/12 Dr. Jiang organized the NSF-Funded Workshop:  Emerging Technologies in Infrastructure and Building Construction Photos

2024/07/28 Dr. Jiang participated i3ce2024 workshop: Hybrid Training for Construction Educators on the Cyber Construction (CyCon) Platform

2024/06/28 Dr. Jiang participated 2024 Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) Estimating Bootcamp

2024/06/15 Dr. Jiang participated ICTD2024 workshop: AI and Emerging Technologies for Integrated Transportation Cybersecurity

2024/06/05 Dr. Jiang attended Spring 2024 NSF Grants Conference

2024/06/01 Dr. Jiang participated QEM/NSF Career STEM Education Proposal Development Workshop

2024/05/23 Dr. Jiang organized a special issue "Artificial Intelligence in Virtual Design and Construction (VDC): Present Status, Opportunities and Future Challenges," to call for high-quality review papers from the fields of Virtual Design and Construction research and practices. 

2024/05/06 Dr. Jiang on News, MarquetteToday https://today.marquette.edu/2024/05/a-culture-of-entrepreneurship-a-showcase-of-startups-emerging-from-marquettes-department-of-civil-construction-and-environmental-engineering/

2024/05/02 Dr. Jiang received the CoST 2024 Rookie Researcher of the Year Award.

2024/05/02 Dr. Jiang received NC A&T’s 2024 Rookie of the Year Award.

2024/04/24 Dr. Jiang served as a Judge in the 2024 Charlotte Early College Senior EXPO

2024/04/17 Students Kaliah Moore, Marquise Dark, Lige Reese, Tyree Thomas, Andrea Spool-White alongside Dr. Yuhan Jiang have been accepted to the 2024 AAAS HBCU Making and Innovation Showcase. The 2024 Showcase will take place on September 12-14, 2024, in Washington, DC. 

2024/04/16 Dr. Jiang on News, MarquetteToday https://today.marquette.edu/2024/04/ph-d-students-receive-asce-best-paper-award/

2024/04/16 Dr. Jiang with students Kalia Moore and Tyree Thomas presented "Digitalizing Stormwater Infrastructure System Using Reality Capture" at 2024 N.C. A&T Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium

2024/04/16 Dr. Jiang with students Marquise Dark, Kaliah Moore, Lige Reese, and Tyree Thomas presented "iPave: Intelligent Roadway Management System" at 2024 N.C. A&T Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium

2024/04/11 Dr. Jiang won the ASCE Journal of Architectural Engineering Best Paper Award, "Scan4Façade: Automated As-Is Façade Modeling of Historic High-Rise Buildings Using Drones and AI." 

2024/04/09 Guest Speakers Lauren Glisson, Caitlin Huber, and Phillip Lee from Alberici Constructors visited CM 318 Estimation Software Application class at NCAT.

2024/04/03 Dr. Jiang has been named NC A&T’s 2024 Rookie Researcher of the Year.

2023/03/23 Dr. Jiang (PI) received the Provost's Fellows: Title III Summer Seed Funding for "Enhancing Low-Income, Manufactured Housing Community Quality in Guilford County, North Carolina, by Applying Artificial Intelligence-Based Built Environment Characterization."

2023/03/23 Dr. Jiang (Co-PI) received the Provost's Fellows: Title III Summer Seed Funding for "Examining the Influence of Social Network on Public’s Reactions toward Corporate Social Advocacy Using Survey Studies and AI Technology of Natural Language Processing."

2024/3/23 Dr. Jiang presented four papers at the Construction Research Congress 2024.

2024/3/22 Dr. Jiang was honored with the Best Paper in the 2024 CRC Conference, Track 3: Computer Applications, Information Modeling, and Simulation, "Using Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation for Post-Disaster Scene Understanding"

2023/03/21 iPave team presented at the 2024 Sci-Tech Week Innovation Challenge and won the 3rd Prize. Congratulations!

2024/3/20 Dr. Jiang joined the Youth Editorial Board of the Smart Construction journal. 

2024/3/15 Dr. Jiang presented "For the Next-Generation Construction Professionals," at Summerfiled Chart Academy (SCA) School Assembly, and participated in the SCA Career Day event. 

2024/1/19 Dr. Jiang presented at Summerfield Charter Academy I-Fest. Students loved and played with the Robot Dog.

2024/1/12 Dr. Jiang participated in panel discussion at the Nicholas School of the Environment, "Applying GIS in HBCUs: A Panel Discussion"

2023

2023/11/16 Dr. Jiang presented "Digitalizing Stormwater Infrastructure Systems in Disadvantaged Communities Using Emerging Technologies" at Provost’s Faculty Fellows Campus Presentation

2023/11/11 Dr. Jiang with students Kalia Moore and Tyree Thomas presented "Digitalizing Stormwater Infrastructure System Using Reality Capture" at State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium 2023

2023/11/09 Kickoff Meeting for HUD Center of Excellence for Innovation in Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities

2023/10/30 Guest Speakers Zak Ball (VDC manager) and Jonathan Harris  (VDC manager) visited CM 256 Into to BIM class at NCAT.

2023/10/11 Dr. Jiang attended the Roofing Alliance’s third annual Faculty Retreat on Roofing at ASU. 

2023/10/02 Dr. Jiang presented "For the Next-Generation Construction Professionals & Built Environment Specialists," at Charlotte Engineering Early College High School (CEEC), and provided a robot dog hands-on workshop for three class blocks (nearly 80 students). 

2023/10/02  Dr. Jiang visited Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services at the One Water Facility

2023/9/28 Dr. Jiang presented "Digitalizing Stormwater Infrastructure Systems in Disadvantaged Communities Using Emerging Technologies" with other Provost Fellows. 

2023/09/18 Dr. Jiang (PI) received an NSF Planning grant of $99,999 for "Using Emerging Technologies for Increasing Student Enrollment and Learning in Infrastructure and Building Construction Technology at HBCUs." 

2023/09/15 Dr. Jiang served as a Judge in the 2023 GEM Annual Technical Presentation & Poster Competition.

2023/09/12 Dr. Jiang's Ph.D. student Andrea Spool-White received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship, Congratulations!!!

2023/07/27 Dr. Jiang visited Brasfield & Gorrie and attended the Future of Construction HBCU Summit

2023/06/12-14 Scan4Facade team visited the New York City Department of Building, SUPERSTRUCTURES Engineers + Architects, Howard L. Zimmerman Architects & Engineers DPC, & RAND Engineering & Architecture, DPC.  

2023/05/31 Dr. Jiang teaching CM 233 Construction Estimating I for 2023 Summer I at NCA&T, videos are posted on YouTube to help students use 2D Drawings for quantity takeoff and Use RSMeans Building Construction Data for estimating.

2023/05/25 Dr. Jiang (PI) received the Provost's Fellows: Title III Summer Seed Funding for "Digitalizing Stormwater Infrastructure Systems in Disadvantaged Communities Using Reality Capture, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Twin."

2023/05/25 Dr. Jiang (Co-PI) received the Provost's Fellows: Title III Summer Seed Funding for "Mixed-Reality Collaborating Platform on Identifying and Observing Spatial Inequality at Urban-Campus Negative Spaces."

2023/05/15 Screening Eagle Technologies visited Visualization and Collaboration Lab. 

2023/04/20 Dr. Jiang earned Credential in Effective College Instruction, Association of College and University Educators

2023/03/28 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a $2.5 million award for North Carolina A&T University to establish a Center of Excellence, Dr. Yuhan Jiang is the principal investigator (PI).

2023/03/28 Scan4Facade team visited the Architectural Resources Group, and Page & Turnbull, San Francisco, California

2023/03/27 Scan4Facade team visited the Department of Building Inspection, City and County of San Francisco, California 

2023/03/25 Ph.D. student Andrea Spool-White presented "Advancing Student Learning in Surveying Lab Using 3D Simulator" at the 2023 Women in Science and Technology Conference. Congratulations!

2023/03/21 Stomp Solutions team presented at Sci-Tech Innovation Challenge and won the 1st Prize. Congratulations!

2023/03/20 Dr. Jiang hosted a workshop on CoST Young Scientists & Technologists Day, "For the Next-Generation Construction Professionals &
Built Environment Specialists."

2023/03/09 Paper "Scan2Drawing: Use of Deep Learning for As-Built Model Landscape Architecture" published by ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

2023/02/23 CoST Advisory Board Visited Visualization and Collaboration Lab. 

2023/02/01 Paper "PCIer: Pavement Condition Evaluation Using Aerial Imagery and Deep Learning" published by Geographies

2023/01/11 Dr. Jiang presented "Pavement Condition Evaluation Using Aerial Imagery and Deep Learning" at TRB 2023 Annual Meeting

2022

2022/12/13 Dr. Jiang (PI) received the iPad SoTL funding to Use iPad and 3D Simulation Technologies for Engaged Student Learning in CM 214/224 Surveying/Lab.

2022/11/19 High school students visited Visualization and Collaboration Lab. 

2022/11/30 Paper "Automatic Concrete Sidewalk Deficiency Detection and Mapping with Deep Learning" published by Expert Systems With Applications

2022/09/27 Paper "Automatic Volume Calculation and Mapping of Construction and Demolition Debris Using Drones, Deep Learning, and GIS" Published by Drones

2022/09/01 Paper "Scan4Façade: Automated As-Is Façade Modeling of Historic High-Rise Buildings Using Drones and AI" Published by ASCE's Journal of Architectural Engineering

2022/08/06 Scan4Facade team visited Marquette University and collected data for Engineering Hall. 

2022/07/17 Scan4Facade team visited the City of Racine, Wisconson. Dr. Jiang presented "Scan4Façade: Automated As-Is Façade Modeling Using Drones and Artificial Intelligence" at the Racine City Hall

2022/05/27 Dr. Jiang (PI) received the FY23 RSCA Challenge Fund grant to use advanced Scan2BIM technologies for engaged student learning in the Construction Management program at South Dakota State University

2022/05/23 Dr. Jiang (Co-PI) received the NSF I-Corps grant to advance the commercialization of drone and AI technologies for building façade inspection

2022/04/01 Paper "Fast-PGMED: Fast and Dense Elevation Determination for Earthwork Using Drone and Deep Learning" has been selected to be featured in the Editor’s Choice section of the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management page in the ASCE Library https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jcemd4

2022/03/12 Dr. Jiang presented "Construction Site Segmentation Using Drone-Based Ortho-Image and Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network Model" at the Construction Research Congress 2022

2022/03/01 Cheers!!! Our team has made it to the next step in the NSF I-Corps selection process and is invited to submit a proposal to attend the National I-Corps Program

2022/02/09 Paper "Fast-PGMED: Fast and Dense Elevation Determination for Earthwork Using Drone and Deep Learning" published by ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

2021

2021/11/15 Dr. Jiang presented "Welcome Drone-AI to Your Building Project" at Milwaukee NSF I-Corps Program

2021/10/08 Dr. Jiang presented "Using Drones to Determine Site Elevation" at the 2021 Southeast Wisconsin Transportation Symposium

2021/09/25 Paper “Building and Infrastructure Defect Detection and Visualization Using Drone and Deep Learning Technologies." published by ASCE's Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities [Demo]

2021/06/23 Paper "Low–High Orthoimage Pairs-Based 3D Reconstruction for Elevation Determination Using Drone" published by ASCE's Journal of Construction Engineering and Management [Video]