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Newmark Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

at the University of Illinois

205 N. Mathews
Urbana, IL 61801

The Department of Civil Engineering at UIUC is located in the Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory. This facility has 118,000 sq. ft. of office, classroom and laboratory space and includes 10,000 sq. ft. of shop area for fabrication of specialized research equipment. This Department has a long tradition in the use of computers for solving Civil Engineering problems. A major commitment of departmental resources has been made to provide a wide spectrum of computational resources for research and teaching. The principal departmental facilities include:

  • Microcomputer instructional facility.
  • General personal computer support.
  • An ethernet system within Newmark connects to the campus 80 Mbs fiber optic network.
  • COE Computational Laboratory for structural behavior and modeling of airport pavement systems and other projects.
  • COE World Wide Web Server


Advanced Transportation
Research and
Engineering Laboratory

at the University of Illinois

1611 Titan Drive
Rantoul, IL 61866

ATREL

The Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory (ATREL) facility includes 50,000 sq. ft. of building space and 56 acres or property. The main facility is 19,000 sq. ft. and provides office space for faculty members, student research assistants, and visiting professionals and educators. It has a library which houses copies of UIUC's transportation research literature and two large classrooms which can be partitioned into five smaller classrooms.

In addition to the offices, library and classrooms the main facility includes three research laboratories and a high bay area that provides considerable space for large-scale testing and research. ATREL's surrounding acreage allows research on full-scale pavement and rail systems under controlled experimental conditions.


TOL

TOL
Traffic Operations Lab (TOL)

at the University of Illinois

1605 Titan Drive
Rantoul, IL 61866

TOL, a sub-section of ATREL, the lab has a variety of testing equipment suited for the evaluation of traffic signal components and fiber optic communications. Also a number of PCs are available for hands-on software training.


Grainger Engineering Library

at the University of Illinois

1301 W. Springfield MC-274
Urbana, IL 61801

TOL


Engineering Workstations

at the University of Illinois

view locations

There are numerous engineering laboratories and computer terminals available to faculty and staff throughout the campus.


Geographical Information Systems Laboratory (GIS)

* Also, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Facilities