The department is housed in the Center for Engineering and Business Administration (Patrick F. Taylor) building. Eleven laboratories covering 23,600 square feet of floor area are available. Among the laboratories used for graduate studies and research are geotechnical, environmenltal, structural, mechanics of materials, water resources, and computer laboratories. The TEM/SEM microscopy mineralogical analysis laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the remote sensing and image processing facilities of the Division of Engineering Research Units are also used by graduate civil engineering students. The civil and mechanical engineering departments also share a new Wind Tunnel Laboratory.

Laboratories for state-of-the-art materials testing are available for use at the nearby Louisiana Transportation Research Center (LTRC). The department shares the Geosynthetic Engineering Research Laboratory with LTRC. The department maintains an array of more than thirty microcomputers for word processing, data acquisition, plotting, and research functions. A general use I/O room with terminals and PCs is also located in Patrick F. Taylor building. University Computing Services maintains a high-performance UNIX cluster with 48 IBM RS/6000 servers for research needs.

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