Civil and Environmental Engineering - Facilities
The combination of committed, knowledgeable faculty and excellent research facilities provides undergraduate and graduate students exceptional learning opportunities. The Civil and Environmental Engineering department maintains over 18,000 sqare feet of classroom and laboratory space dedicated to undergraduate instruction and research experience, as well as testing laboratories for research and sponsored projects.
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For more information on the Lohr Structures lab click here.
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For more information on the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, click here. [External Hyperlink]
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For more information on the WEERC, click here. [External Hyperlink]
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| Concrete Laboratory
The concrete laboratory is used for general testing of aggregates and the mixing and testing of fresh and hardened concrete. The laboratory has a teaching area with seating and tables for 16 students for recitation prior to conducting a laboratory exercise. The laboratory has a curing room with 100 percent humidity and racks for the storage of significant numbers of concrete specimens. A capping hood is provided as well as scales and associated equipment for testing of fresh concrete. This lab is home to a 300,000 pound capacity compression testing machine as well as a mixer and concrete saw.
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| Geotechnical Engineering Laboratories
The main function of these laboratories is the general testing of soils. The undergraduate geotechnical laboratory is equipped with seating and tables for 16 students for recitation prior to conducting laboratory experiments. The laboratory also has large tables that provide work space for conducting experiments. The room is equipped with a sieve shaker, a free standing mixer, a consolidometer, a hydraulic testing machine, a direct shear testing machine, a triaxial testing machine, a permeameter and various smaller equipment such as scales and ovens.
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For more information on the Geotechnical Engineering Laboratories, click here.
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| Structural Materials Laboratory
The Structural Materials laboratory has seating and tables for 16 students for recitation prior to beginning a laboratory experiment. It houses several smaller testing machines including universal testing testing machine with a 60,000 pound capacity, a torsion testing machine with a 1000 in-lb capacity, universal testing machine with a 1000 pound capacity, various accesories for these machines and other small testing equipment.
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| Bituminous Laboratory
The Bituminous Laboratory is mainly a research laboratory and does not have recitation space. The lab is furnished with counter space and tables for performing exepriments. Equipment housed here includes an asphalt compactor, a pressure aging vessel, an asphalt content testing machine, a viscometer with heater, a rotational viscomenter, as well as smaller testing equipment. Two-thirds of the laboratory space is under ventilated hoods and an additional room is provided for shakers and other equipment.
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| Design Studio Laboratories, Classrooms, and Computer Laboratory
The Civil and Environmental Engineering department maintains three design studio laboratories and classrooms. These rooms are equipped with tables and chairs that allow students to have open references to work design based problems. These rooms have whiteboards and projection screens. The computer laboratory is a place where students can work on assignments, check email or look up new job postings. The laboratory is equipped with computers, a scanner, a laser printer, and other equipment. Software is available for general wordprocessing, spreadsheets, creating presentations, as well as industry design software including Structural Design (SAP, PCA Frame, PCA Column, PCA Beam, PCA ADOSS, SAFE), AutoCAD, LanDesktop, Water treatment and collection (SewerCAD, WaterCAD, Haestad methods, HEC-RAS).
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