Thank you for your interest in our Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate program at UC Irvine. The application for the Fall 2026 admission cycle will be available on Oct. 1, 2025. Applications must be completed, and all supporting material submitted by the application deadline. The priority deadline is Dec. 15, 2025, and the general application deadline is Jan. 15, 2026.
Ever wanted to make your own wireless chemical sensor? Researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) have got you covered with their ESP32-based potentiostat. … Potentiostats are instruments that analyze the electrical properties of an electroactive chemical cell. Read More
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We are proud to say there are over 3,000 CEE Anteater Alumni representing the UCI Community around the globe.
CEE strives to foster continuous intellectual engagement beyond your educational experience at UCI. Our mission is to nurture a lifelong, professional partnership that will compel alumni interaction with CEE faculty, staff and current students.
Take Brett Sanders, a professor of civil and environmental engineering. Sanders is an expert in water, specifically flooding and erosion. One of the projects his team at UCI has been working on is to develop new models to estimate how well infrastructure can withstand compounding hazards of successive fire and flooding events — crucial information given the increasing size and recurrence of such calamities.
The UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering has reorganized the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science (ChEMS) into two new departments, effective July 1, 2018: Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) and Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE).
All engineering programs combine science, engineering fundamentals, design principles and application, and a culminating design experience, however, students are encouraged to participate in research and hands-on engineering design opportunities to develop the practical skills needed for graduate study or employment. A variety of programs are available to broaden and enhance your engineering educational experience including study abroad, multidisciplinary research and design programs, campus honors and a program in international engineering.
Amir AghaKouchak, UCI professor of civil & environmental engineering and Earth system science writes, “I study cascading hazards like this, in which consecutive events lead to human disasters.
The total water use of hydrogen “is not the big deal,” said Jack Brouwer, an engineering professor at University of California-Irvine. “The water challenge is that where we have good primary energy from wind and solar, we do not have good water (supply) necessarily.”...
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine is one of the nation’s fastest growing engineering schools, attracting talented faculty and students from across the nation and abroad. The Samueli School is dedicated to fostering an interdisciplinary community of learning, and is at the forefront of energy and environmental technology research and development, including advancements made in the Advanced Power and Energy Program, the National Fuel Cell Research Center, the Combustion Laboratory, the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, and the Urban Water Research Center.
Honoring outstanding postdoctoral scientists from academic research institutions across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences announced the three Winners and six Finalists of the 2021 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists. … The followi
Two UC Irvine scientists, Dr. Kathleen Treseder and Dr. Brett Sanders, spoke at the event about the need for the bill (click here for our recent story on Treseder’s research on the link between climate change and Valley fever; click here for our extensive look at how sea-level rise will affect Orange County’s coastline, which relied heavily on Sanders’s research).
