Department of Civil Engineering
University of New Mexico
MSC01 1070
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Ph (505) 277 2722, Fax (505) 277 1988
Email: civil@unm.edu
 

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The Department of Civil Engineering has an active and diverse research program with annual sponsored research expenditures in excess of $1 million.

Major areas of research in civil engineering and construction engineering include:

Traffic safety  
Smart materials and structures
Structural health monitoring
Structural identification
Decision support systems
Infrastructure reliability and biomechanics
Riparian evapotranspiration
Remote sensing applications
Physical hydraulic modeling
River restoration
GIS modeling
Construction processes
Production controls
Leadership in construction and engineering
Computer modeling of construction processes
Concurrent engineering and construction
Company safety and health management
Highway design and operations
Hazardous materials transportation
Water treatment processes
Membrane processes
Desalination
Water chemistry
Unsaturated hydrology
Waste containment and management
Water and energy balance measurements
Alkali-silica reactivity
Materials testing and characterization
Computational mechanics
Geomechanics
Micromechanics of granular materials
Foundation engineering


The department is involved with interdisciplinary research with the School of Medicine and the College of Arts & Sciences, and enjoys extensive interactions and collaborations with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the New Mexico Department of Transportation and the New Mexico Building Branch, Associated General Contractors.

Refer to faculty web pages for more information about current research programs in the Department of Civil Engineering.