Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

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Program Description

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UIUC is located in the Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory (NCEL) and is consistently ranked as one of our nation’s best in civil engineering undergraduate and graduate programs. The Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT) provides a unified framework for the transportation research program at the University of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) through the use of an integrated organizational structure, coordinated programs, unique facilities, and common outreach activities. The majority of the transportation research projects are tested and researched at our Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory (ATREL).  The Center of Excellence for Airport Technology (CEAT) was founded in 1995 as a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Center of Excellence focused on airport pavement issues, and has since broadened to include wildlife issues, anti-icing, and lighting.

Facilities

NCEL contains several testing laboratories for materials and structures including a three-story open crane bay that can be used to carry out a wide range of tests of building materials, components, structural assemblies, and models.  The ATREL facility includes 50,000 sq. ft. of building space and 56 acres of property found in Rantoul, IL. The main facility houses offices, a library, classrooms, three research laboratories, and a high bay area for large scale testing.  In the surrounding acreage, full-scale pavements are researched using an accelerated loading system and controlled experimental conditions.

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