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Built, Natural and Smart Systems that Strengthen Communities and Enhance Life

Whether the challenge is creating more efficient transportation, coping with rising sea levels, modernizing the built environment or providing clean water, our students, faculty and staff create resilient systems that meet the needs of our communities. In the process, we push beyond the limits of current technology, from cyber-physical systems for smart cities to nanotechnology for low-cost water purification. We also ensure our solutions meet community needs by actively collaborating across disciplines, including public policy, business, public health and architecture. 

Technology and Collaboration to Meet Community Needs

In the process of meeting the world's greatest challenges, we push beyond the limits of current technology, from cyber-physical systems for smart cities to nanotechnology for low-cost water purification. We also ensure our solutions meet community needs by actively collaborating across disciplines, including public policy, business, public health and architecture.

Explore Our Research

  • Built Environment

    The built environment is the roads, buildings, drinking water facilities, and other infrastructure systems that serve society and we focus our research on increasing the equity, durability, and resiliency of this built environment.

  • Sustainable Systems

    Civil and environmental engineers work to advance sustainable systems by seeking to understand and mitigate the impacts of human activities on the natural environment.

  • Smart Cities

    Many of the systems that civil and environmental engineers design, build, and maintain are going through a revolution involving the adoption of technological advances.