U-M CEE: Civil and Environmental Engineering

08/28/2026

Welcome to a new year in CEE!

On August 26, our newest graduate students gathered in the Blue Lounge for Graduate Orientation and Welcome, connecting with faculty, staff, and fellow CEE students as they begin their journey in the department.

Thank you to the students, staff, and faculty who helped make the event possible and continue to make CEE a welcoming community for everyone. We’re excited for the year ahead and all that our CEE community will accomplish together!

08/27/2026

The answer to the last trivia question was C! U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Operations Manager and CEE alum Elizabeth Newell Wilkinson is using the “floating plant” to construct a stone rubble mound wave attenuator to blunt wave damage and prevent coastal erosion alongside Manistee Harbor, providing safer navigation for commercial and recreational vessels.

Thanks for playing CEE Trivia!

08/25/2026

For the final week of CEE trivia, we're looking at some lakeside civil engineering! This fleet of vessels traveled from Wisconsin to Manistee across Lake Michigan to complete what important infrastructure project led by CEE alum Elizabeth Wilkinson?

A) A commercial shipping terminal
B) A ferry maintenance dock
C) A harbor breakwater
D) An artificial reef for fish habitat

Check back on Thursday for the answer!

08/20/2026

The answer to last week's trivia question is B! Ian Fiero works with CEE Professor Nancy Love to use the peony garden at Nichols Arboretum as a test bed for urine-derived fertilizer (UDF), which contains the same essential nutrients found in conventional synthetic fertilizer.

08/19/2026

08/18/2026

We're heading out to the Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum for this week's round of CEE Trivia! CEE Master's student Ian Fiero is counting flower buds to test a fertilizer made from what?

A. Fish waste
B. Human urine
C. Food scraps from the Campus Farm
D. Seaweed sludge

Check back on Thursday for the answer!

08/13/2026

The answer to last week's trivia question is C! This shielded non-thermal plasma flow reactor helps researchers like CEE PhD student Emily Hong investigate ways to reduce the environmental, health, and economic impacts of airborne aerosols to limit the spread of avian influenza and other zoonotic diseases.

08/11/2026

It's another week of CEE trivia summer! What do you think this device in CEE Professor Herek Clack's lab is designed to study?

A) 3D printed metals
B) Battery performance in electric vehicles
C) Airborne viruses and aerosols
D) Water filtration membranes

Check back on Thursday for the answer!

08/06/2026

The answer to Tuesday's trivia questions is B!

Steel fibers help bridge cracks and improve the tensile strength, ductility, toughness, and energy absorption of ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC). Here, CEE visiting research fellow Min Chang Kang adds steel fibers to a UHPC mixture in the Structural Laboratory to examine how they influence the concrete's behavior while developing more practical and cost-effective UHPC mixtures.

04/22/2026

CEE students celebrated the end of the winter semester and took a break from studying for finals to grab some ice cream from the student services office. Thanks to everyone who showed up! We wish you the best of luck during finals week.