Department Head's Welcome
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I am pleased to welcome you to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). In the birthplace of Co-operative Education, Civil and Environmental Engineering champions scholarship, practical experience, research, and leadership. We are the Department of choice for undergraduate and graduate students with diverse backgrounds, and a magnet for funded research. |
CEE graduates acquire and continually develop the knowledge, creativity, and leadership necessary for careers in engineering design, construction, management, research, and academia. Our education and cutting-edge research strive to solve society's current and future needs worldwide for the environment and infrastructure.
The CEE department is the home of three overall research thrust areas, namely, Civil Engineering (CE), Environmental Engineering & Science (EES) and Sustainability. The CE program has two main research thrust areas. One is infrastructure design which covers basic analysis and design of infrastructure elements. The other thrust area is infrastructure system which covers basic analysis and design of systems which support the infrastructure. The EES program has three research thrust areas which are air quality, environmental hydrology and water quality processes. Beyond the above specific research thrust areas, a new interdisciplinary research thrust area in sustainability has been established. It contains collaborators within and outside the College of Engineering and Applied Science. It seeks to understand how urban infrastructure and environmental policies affect the long-term health and wealth of cities, and to apply this understanding for practical aims through the development of theoretical and analytical frameworks. Such theoretical and analytical frameworks are only discovered and tested through sustained multi-disciplinary research and education collaborations fostered by administrative support at all levels of the University of Cincinnati.
In the past five years, CEE has obtained significant funding from competitive, national level agencies including the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Health (NIH), the Federal Highway Administration, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Hygiene (NIOSH), and the Research Council on Structural Connections. The total research funding over the past 5 years amounted to $30,232,000. The productivity of the CEE faculty as delineated by publications in peer reviewed journals totaled to over 360 articles in the past five years.
The EES program is recognized internationally as one of the top environmental engineering programs, attracting some of the best Faculty and Students to the University and thus impacting positively the region and the State of Ohio. The EES program includes three NSF Career Award and one Presidential Young Investigator winners. In 2007, the EES program was ranked as the sixth top research program in the nation with regards to the faculty scholarly productivity index.
In the past five years, the CEE faculty members have developed significant partnership with industries or government agencies. They have developed partnership with Pegasus Inc, Dupont, DOW Chemicals, US EPA, US Army, Ohio department of transportation, Shaw Environmental Inc, Proctor and Gamble, HC Nutting, Steven Schaefer and Associates, THP limited and incorporated, and LJB incorporated. Graduate students from both CE and EES programs have received highly competitive national awards including AEESP (Association of Environmental Engineers and Science Professors), American Chemical Society (ACS), Air and Waste Management association (A&WMA), and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
The need for civil and environmental engineers will continue to increase as we strive to cope with expanding urbanization, crumbling infrastructures, global climate change, and an increase in the human population.