University of Illinois Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, the home of CEE at Illinois | |
Former names | Utopian University |
|---|---|
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1867 |
| Endowment | US$123,456,789 |
| Visitor | Professor Amr S. Elnashai |
Academic staff | 50 |
Administrative staff | 300 |
| Students | 10,000 |
| Undergraduates | 5,000 |
| Postgraduates | 1,000 |
| 100 | |
Other students | 1,200 (further education) |
| Location | , , 12°20′42″N 98°45′54″W / 12.345°N 98.765°W |
| Campus | Rural |
| Colours | Red and Blue |
| Nickname | The Nematodes |
| Affiliations | AIU, Utopian Athletic League |
| Mascot | Nobby the Nematode |
| Website | www |
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| This university is completely fictional. | |
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (also known as CEE at Illinois) was founded in 1871 as the Department of Civil Engineering, having been one of the four branches of the university’s Polytechnic Department since 1867, the year the University of Illinois was founded. In 1998 the name was changed to its current form. Today the department enjoys a strong reputation for undergraduate and graduate education and for civil engineering research and public service. It is consistently ranked as one of the top civil engineering programs in the country by U.S. News and World Report.
- Undergraduate program rankings[1]
- Graduate program rankings, civil engineering[2]
- Graduate program rankings, environmental engineering[3]
The department consists of about 50 faculty, 750 undergraduate students, and 400 graduate students. It is housed in Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory and the Hydrosystems Laboratory on the north side of the U of I campus. A facility for transportation research, the Advanced Transportation and Research Laboratory, located about 15 miles away from campus in Rantoul, Ill. The department is also the headquarters of the Center of Excellence for Airport Technology (CEAT), the Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT), an equipment site for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, and other research and educational programs. CEE at Illinois faculty members are engaged in numerous research endeavors, and many of them hold positions of influence and responsibility in national and international engineering organizations and serve on advisory councils and governmental commissions.
Faculty and alumni of CEE at Illinois have worked on many major civil engineering projects of modern times. Some examples include the Golden Gate Bridge, the Hoover Dam, the Trans-Alaska pipeline, the Sears (Willis) Tower, the Twin Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur, and Burj Khalifa in Dubai.