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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. 

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

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." 

2023/07/27  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 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

2022/12/13 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

2021/11/15 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]