Civil Engineering

Right now, 99.7 percent of New Mexico is in a severe drought, 82.2 percent is in extreme drought and 53.4 percent is facing exceptional drought – all of which create considerable strain on local communities, agricultural efforts and wildlife. In the...

A team of interdisciplinary researchers at UNM is teaching robots to take care of plants on Mars – a big step towards having viable food available for astronauts when they land on the Red Planet. Architects, biologists, computer scientists and engineers...

University of New Mexico faculty members recently learned tips and shared experiences on mentoring graduate students. Professor of Civil Engineering Julie Coonrod and Distinguished Professor of Psychology Barbara McCrady led the discussion. They...

The second installment of the School of Engineering’s new virtual speaker series “Engineering in Action: How our innovation is impacting our community” will be held at 3 p.m. October 2 on Zoom. At the event, UNM Engineering faculty and students will...

Eight faculty members at The University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2020 Women in STEM awards. Their work includes research on the impact of global warming on alpine stream biology, the creation of a better way to identify missing and...

University of New Mexico Civil Engineering Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant at the Smart Management of Infrastructure Laboratory (SMILab) Roya Nasimi has been awarded second place in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)...

José Cerrato, associate professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at The University of New Mexico, has been selected for a Fulbright Scholarship, which will allow him to travel to Spain to research ways to better...

The fields of dancing and engineering seem worlds apart, one inspired by the arts and theater, the other using math and technology in the classroom or laboratory. But a...

Railroads transport huge amounts of freight and people every day across the continent and being on time is of paramount importance. There are approximately 100,000 railroad bridges in the United States, and more than half are over 100 years old, making...

The University of New Mexico has received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue the groundbreaking research that the Center for Water and the Environment has been leading since 2014. "CREST Center for Water and the...