Facilities
Research facilities for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are conveniently located on campus in a complex of offices and laboratories located in the Center for Advanced Materials Processing and the William J. Rowley Science and Engineering Laboratory.
Cold Regions Engineering
The goal is to identify and research the effects of the cold
region environment and to advance scientific knowledge and
practice in the engineering solution of cold regions problems.
The associated faculty, by this mandate, engages in original
research in cold regions engineering, relevant to any part
of the broad field of civil engineering. Learn
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Geotechnical Engineering & Transportation Systems
The geotechnical program operates the Geomechanics Research
Laboratory which houses a wide array of unique experimental
systems to conduct both laboratory and field testing of geotechnical
problems. Learn
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Hydraulics & Water Resources Engineering Laboratory
The hydraulics laboratory contains two multipurpose 12-foot
flumes and a 55-foot variable slope flume for multiphase flow
studies. A wave basin 50 feet long, six feet wide, and two
feet six inches deep also serves as a fixed bed channel. A
towing carriage is mounted on the 50-foot basin and is used
for calibration purposes. Learn
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Environmental Engineering Laboratory
Major research space and instrumentation, totaling in excess
of 26,000 square feet, for conducting environmental research
is contained in the William J. Rowley Laboratories, the Center
for Air Resources Engineering and Science, the Center for
Advanced Materials Processing, and the Clarkson Science Center.
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Structural Engineering Laboratory
The Structural Engineering Laboratory contains a 25-foot by
45-foot strong floor with two 20-foot wide by 15-foot high
reaction walls. The horizontal tie-downs of the reaction walls
have a design capacity of 100 kip each and an overturning
moment of 1,200 kip-ft per four-foot length at the top of
the wall. Learn More
