Civil Engineering

The American West stretches from the sandy shores of the Pacific to the peaks of the Rockies, its diverse landscapes of deserts, foothills, beaches, mesas, grasslands, and mountains boasting of sunshine in the summer and snowpack in the winter. Water is...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering’s transportation program are offering their expertise to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta to help ease traffic congestion...

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering placed in the top 100 in the U.S. News & World Report 2020 Best Graduate Schools rankings for engineering, released today. The School of Engineering ranks No. 85 this year. Last year, the School placed...

Imagine being able to see objects that are invisible to the human eye and in fact 100,000 times smaller than a human hair. Seeing matter at this tiny level — the atomic level — has broad applications for research, ranging from drug delivery to improving...

Researchers at The University of New Mexico are wading through one of the state’s most prolific problems: water resources. Interdisciplinary researchers from across campus published a report titled “New Mexico Water: What Our Next Leaders Need to Know”...

For most spectators, everything about racing seems big—large and powerful motors, oversized tires, loud sounds, fast speeds. But as The University of New Mexico’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers team has recently learned, racing actually ...

The University of New Mexico’s Department of Civil Engineering now has a new name: the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. The name change was approved by the UNM Faculty Senate in late April. Mahmoud Taha, department chair...

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering has received $3 million from the estate of an alumnus, which will benefit students and faculty in the departments of civil engineering and mechanical engineering by creating laboratory and learning...

As the result of an accreditation review by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET in fall 2016, all of the bachelor’s degree programs in engineering offered by The University of New Mexico School of Engineering have been...

A University of New Mexico undergraduate engineering student thinks algae could solve the problem of arsenic contamination in water. Chase Stearnes says he got the idea after hearing about researchers who were able to use algae to collect and harvest...