University of Illinois Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, one of 12 departments within the University of Illinois College of Engineering, has been in existence for more than 140 years, since the year the university was founded.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
Type	Public
Established	1867 (1867)
Department Head	Amr S. Elnashai
Academic staff	50
Students	1,150
Undergraduates	800
Postgraduates	450
Location	Urbana , Illinois , United States of America
Colors	Illinois Blue[1]   Illinois Orange[1]
Website	cee.illinois.edu

Both the undergraduate and graduate programs of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Illinois are consistently ranked as the best (#1-3) of such programs in the United States by the US News & World Report.^[2]