Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering

Ask Regents Professor Bruce Thomson to design a water treatment plant and you could expect quality water as a result. Then he could pick up a fiddle and write a tune about it.

UNM Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Ricardo González-Pinzón is conducting research on rainfall-runoff processes and water quality modeling using parsimonious models. González-Pinzón was recently awarded a faculty water research grant by the Ne

Mahmoud Reda Taha, a professor of civil engineering, has been selected as the new chair of the University of New Mexico School of Engineering’s Department of Civil Engineering, effective July 1, 2014.

José M. Cerrato, a new assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at UNM has a smile that lights up a room when he talks about his work. “I feel blessed to have this job because it is not merely technically teaching a subject,” he says.

The Center for Water and the Environment, a research center based at the University of New Mexico, has received a 5-year, $5 million Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) award from the National Science Foundation.

A new study by UNM Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Gregory Rowangould shows 19 percent of the population of the United States, or nearly 60 million people, live in close proximity to high volume roads. 

Mark RussellMark Russell has been named the new Associated General Contractors (AGC) Endowed Chair in Construction Management and Construction Engineering at the University of New Mexico. Russell has been teaching at UNM since Fall 2011 and has more than ...

Matt Pleil conducting a demonstration in the, Manufacturing Training & Technology Center.Albuquerque Public Schools will soon receive more than $200,000 through a Nation Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education grant recently awarded to UNM's ...

The Unites States Army Research Office has awarded Andy Schuler, associate professor of civil engineering, a three-year, $418,000 grant to harvest energy from bacterial metabolism in wastewater treatment.Wastewater contains a variety of waste compounds, ...