Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Since 1978, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has greatly increased its laboratory space and facilities for experimental research. It now maintains separate, well-equipped laboratories in Remote Sensing, Hydraulics, Mechanics of Materials, Photogrammetry, Water Resources Research, Environmental Engineering, and many other areas.
These facilities allow faculty to conduct nationally competitive research, as well as produce nationally competitive graduates. In fact, the department has the second highest enrollment of graduate students in the University.
Students and faculty also have access to many of the research facilities of the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station and Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium facility, which provides support for marine/estuarine research. Environmental engineering faculty collaborate with engineers and scientists throughout the LSU campus, including the Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Oceanography and Coastal Studies, as well as universities and research centers throughout the nation and world.
While lab space has increased, so too has the department’s numbers in graduate student enrollment and faculty. Currently, there are faculty members in six areas of specialization at the undergraduate and graduate level. Those areas include environmental engineering systems, geotechnical and geophysical systems, transportation engineering and geoinformatics, material modeling and visualization, structural engineering and mechanics, and water resources engineering systems.
Research funding has also doubled in the last five years, with faculty securing more than $3.5 million in research funding from state, federal, and private organizations.
