CUE Laboratories

CUE’s instructional laboratories use state-of-the-art equipment to support courses in soil mechanics, fluid dynamics, environmental chemistry, and infrastructure materials. In addition, the department’s laboratory facilities are used for experiential learning via competitive teams such as the Concrete Canoe Team, Steel Bridge Team, and the Earthquake Research Team (EERI).

The structural engineering lab is a shared instructional and research laboratory used for experiments in soil mechanics, the testing of structural elements, and investigations into building materials such as high tensile strength concretes.

The materials lab provides facilities for research and instruction into the nature of materials used for urban construction. This includes the analysis of novel concrete formulations, as well as strength testing of infrastructure construction materials.

The environmental chemistry lab is a research laboratory used for the analysis of chemical pollutants with a special emphasis on pesticide degradation in aquatic environments.

The Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory is an instructional and shared research lab that focuses on understanding the behavior of earth materials (e.g., soil, sand, rock, groundwater, etc.) and their effects on buildings and infrastructure.

Research in the Transparent Soils lab uses transparent soil surrogates to characterize and model soil behavior in a variety of environments, as well understand the fundamentals of foundation engineering.

The AI4CE lab (pronounced as “A-I-force”) conducts multidisciplinary research to develop novel algorithms and systems for intelligent agents to accurately understand the interactions between materials and humans in dynamic and unstructured environments.

The CityLab is an interdisciplinary laboratory that focuses on the quantitative assessment and modeling of urban thermodynamics and pollution.

Research in the BILAB (Building Informatics Laboratory) focuses on innovative solutions for the challenges associated with the construction and operation of facilities and infrastructure systems in urban settings.

This is a shared lab with two distinct instructional areas. One is used for instructional experiments in fluid dynamics, and the other is used for experiments in environmental chemistry.

This laboratory is focused on water quality, wastewater treatment, detection and control of waterborne pathogens, photolysis of emerging contaminants, design of natural wastewater treatment systems (e.g., treatment ponds and constructed wetlands), urban flooding, and the safe reuse of human waste.

Research in the Human Factors and Statistical Modeling Lab focuses on the examination of complex datasets to gain insights into human performance, behavior, and safety relating to human operation transportation systems.