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Civil and Environmental Engineering

Department Chair:

Nancy Love

Graduate Advisor:

Janet Lineer

Undergraduate Advisor:

Matt Blank

Contact:

Victor Li

Contact:

Steven Wright

Contact:

Sherif El-Tawil

Contact:

Roman Hryciw

Contact:

Radoslaw Michalowski

Contact:

Photios Ioannou

Contact:

Jeremy Semrau

Location:

2340 G G Brown Laboratory

Address:

2350 Hayward St

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125

Phone:

(734) 764-8495

Fax:

(734) 764-4292

Email:

blankm@umich.edu

Website:

http://cee.engin.umich.edu/

Related Faculty

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Adriaens, Peter	Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Adda	Barber, James
Batterman, Stuart	Boyd, John	Bulkley, Jonathan
Cotel, Aline	Demond, Avery	El-Tawil, Sherif
Everett, John	Hansen, Will	Hayes, Kim
Hryciw, Roman	Ioannou, Photios	Ivanov, Valeriy
Jeffers, Ann	Kamat, Vineet	Katopodes, Nikolaos
Keeler, Gerald	Lastoskie, Christian	Lepri, Susan
Li, Victor	Love, Nancy	Lynch, Jerome
McCormick, Jason	Michalak, Anna	Michalowski, Radoslaw
Olson, Terese	Parra-Montesinos, Gustavo	Perlin, Marc
Raskin, Lutgarde	Semrau, Jeremy	Weber, Walter
Wight, James	Wright, Steven	Zekkos, Dimitrios

Related Topics

Construction engineering and management

Environmental and water resources engineering

Geotechnical engineering

Hydraulics and hydrologic engineering

Related Places

Advanced Civil Engineering Materials Research Laboratory

Center for Concrete Pavement Performance

Construction Engineering Laboratory

Environmental and Water Resources Laboratory

Hydraulics Laboratory

Structures Laboratory

Description

Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan is an integrated discipline aimed at creating harmony between the natural and built environments and mitigating natural and man-made hazards. Our mission is to educate the leaders who will design the future infrastructure systems, protect the environment, and engineer a quality of life on a global scale. Our students learn how to fabricate new materials for infrastructure systems that improve security, reliability, and sustainability by engaging multidisciplinary groups, and encouraging technical and non-technical collaborations. Our students also learn how to develop microfluidics sensors and couple bioremediation with physicochemical processes for enhanced treatment of hazardous waste sites. Furthermore, our students learn how to deal with ambiguities in problem definition and contingencies in the process of problem solving. Upon graduation, our students are ready to lead an adaptive, rapidly changing organization, in which engineers of diverse specialties are brought together to act conjunctively and optimize their product by continuous improvement. Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan was founded in January 1837, when the superintendent of public instruction for the State of Michigan proposed the creation of a new professorship in civil engineering and architecture. In 1853, Alexander Winchell became the first Civil Engineering professor and on January 20, 1854, he taught the first Civil Engineering class. William V. Snyder was awarded the first Engineering degree in 1857. This made the University of Michigan the sixth university overall and the first public university in the country to award a degree in Engineering. The first African-American Civil Engineering graduate was Fred B. Pelham who graduated in 1887. The first female to receive a B.S.E. degree in Civil Engineering was Marian Sarah Parker in 1895. Since its creation, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan has been recognized as a premier program, whose impact on the academy, government and industry is unparalleled. The enduring strength of our department can be largely attributed to the sound foundation laid by our faculty and the support we receive from our alumni. We have a vision for a research-driven department in which the focus remains on learning, and the discovery of new knowledge is based on a student-centered culture. We create new sophisticated technologies for teaching and research, but we complement them with effective advising and mentoring, teamwork and experience-based learning that strengthen the technical skills and simultaneously ensure the personal growth of our graduates. We seek new opportunities and partnerships that enhance the interdisciplinary character of the department, but we guard our core mission of improving the infrastructure and protecting the environment. We make intensive use of information technology in order to reach a broader audience, but we maintain the personal student-teacher relationship, which is the cornerstone of the Michigan experience.