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CEE is housed in the John D. Tickle Engineering Building which received an Outstanding Post-Secondary Project Design award from American School and University Magazine for its “welcoming image and unique departmental identity.”






Research Facilities

CEE faculty and students have access to 11 state-of-the-art research centers and institutes.

UT Facilities

  • Baker Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
  • Center for Environmental Biotechnology
  • Center for Transportation Research
  • Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment
  • Tennessee Water Resources Research Institute

Joint with ORNL

  • Joint Institute for Advanced Materials
  • Joint Institute for Biological Sciences
  • Joint Institute for Computational Science
  • National Transportation Research Center

Externally Funded

  • Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation
  • Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety

Resources

On-campus Laboratories: > 30

Annual Budget Excluding Research: $5.5M

Annual Research Expenditures: $8M

Rankings

34th

Tickle College of Engineering is ranked 34th among undergraduate public engineering colleges according to U.S. News and World Report.

35th

Civil engineering is ranked 35th among undergraduate public engineering colleges according to U.S. News and World Report.


38th

Civil engineering is ranked 38th among graduate public engineering programs according to U.S. News and World Report.