Research in the Department of Civil Engineering
The Department of Civil Engineering has an active and diverse research program with annual sponsored research expenditures of nearly $3 million. 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, and the Associated General Contractors.
Civil Engineering has extensive laboratory facilities housed in the $42M Centennial Engineering Center building which opened in 2008. The new building provides the following state of the art laboratories and equipment.