So she put soccer on hold for about four years while she travelled to Rome, worked for 2 years at start-up, Oodle.com and put her Civil and Environmental Engineering degree to work as an Energy Engineer for Emcor.

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Fu juggles the intense responsibility of working at a VC firm with a more than full course load in the civil and environmental engineering department.

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Most commuters showed a remarkable ability to accommodate the long distances to their work place, says Patricia Mokhtarian, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis.

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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Civil and Environmental Engineering department looked at the 40 largest U.S. airports and figured out which ones would be the most likely to spread a disease in the event of an outbreak in the cities they serve.

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Daniel Sperling, professor of civil engineering and environmental science at the University of California-Davis, talks with Melissa Block about what the new standards mean for consumers and automakers.

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