Making a Difference Through Engineering

Learn more about the work we're doing at UD by exploring our areas of research, labs and related centers.


Areas of Research

  • Composite materials
  • Construction engineering and management
  • Engineering mechanics
  • Environmental engineering
  • Geotechnical engineering
  • Intelligent infrastructure
  • Structural engineering
  • Transportation and traffic safety engineering
  • Water resources engineering


Engineering Centers
Fire is measured in the cone calorimeter in the Center for Flame Retardant Materials Science

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Explore this collaborative effort between interdisciplinary groups on campus, which focuses on advancing basic and applied chemical and material sciences to deliver new and improved fire safe solutions.

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At UD, centers and institutes extend our focus on experiential learning beyond the classroom into a variety of co-curricular activities.



Contact Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
300 College Park
Dayton, Ohio 45469 - 0243
937-229-3847 email