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Facilities
The underground Civil Engineering Building is one of three main research facilities used by faculty and students in the Department of Civil Engineering.
The CE building opened in 1983 as an energy demonstration project. It includes the department's main structures lab, its geomechanics laboratories and several environmental engineering laboratories.
A second facility for structures research, the Multi-Axial Subassemblage Testing System (MAST), is located on the east edge of the Minneapolis campus. The MAST Laboratory is part of the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, an NSF-funded initiative that aims to accelerate progress in earthquake engineering research and to improve the seismic design and performance of civil and mechanical infrastructure systems.
The department's St. Anthony Falls Laboratory is a unique research and teaching facility on the bank of the Mississippi River. Research at the lab focuses on water resources engineering, hydromechanics, wind engineering and geophysical fluid dynamics. The lab is home to the National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics (NCED), one of a handful of national science and technology centers funded by NSF.
The Civil Engineering Department also has close ties to the Center for Transportation Studies (CTS). CTS works with faculty from more than 20 departments on research covering a broad range of transportation issues. A division of CTS, the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Institute, operates a laboratory for ITS research in partnership with the Civil Engineering Department. CTS also works closely with the Minnesota Department of Transportation to support CE faculty research at the Mn/ROAD Pavement Research facility and the Civil Engineering structures laboratory.
The Minnesota Traffic Observatory (MTO) is a transportation laboratory focusing on testing and evaluation of new transportation management and operational strategies, and traveler information technologies. The primary mission of the lab is to support research in monitoring, management, and simulation of traffic systems. The MTO also supports education and outreach efforts, laboratory access for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as learning resources for course instructors and transportation professionals.
Maps to CivE and parking information are also available.
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