Civil and Environmental Engineering. Faculty in civil and environmental engineering routinely design, construct, and adapt laboratory equipment for specialized teaching and research tasks in engineering mechanics, environmental engineering, geomechanics, structural engineering, transportation and systems engineering, and water resources engineering. In addition, arrays of standard laboratory facilities are available to support each research area. The 6,000 lbs. For teaching and research, the department has a 10,000 lb.
Equipment is available for fabricating specimens and testing fiber-reinforced polymer composites.
Research and teaching facilities in environmental engineering include wet and dry laboratories equipped to study a range of physical, chemical, and biological processes. A fully integrated resource recovery pilot plant, calorimetry for the measurement of heat values of secondary fuels, air classifiers interfaced with computer monitors, as well as indoor and outdoor water resources monitoring devices including flumes, Venturi meters, and digital computation hardware are available. Computer resources available to civil and environmental engineering students include a multitude of personal computers, two Digital Equipment Corporation Workstation clusters consisting of fifty workstations in total. This particular facility is dedicated to graduate student research and special undergraduate projects. Most of the computer resources are networked with the Pratt School of Engineering's ethernet backbone and are easily accessible from several locations in the department and across the campus.