The Civil & Environmental Engineering department has a long history of funded research. Faculty members have received support from local and national corporations and from diverse city, county, state, and federal government sources. Representative government agencies include:
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- National Science Foundation
- Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
- Federal Highway Administration
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- USDA Forest Services
- Illinois Clean Coal Institute
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- US Department of Defense: Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
- Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute
- Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council
Ongoing research is conducted in the Center for By-Products Utilization, the Center for Urban Transportation Studies and several laboratories including:
- Computational Mechanics Laboratory
- Environmental Engineering Laboratory
- Water Resources Laboratory
- Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory
- Structural Engineering Laboratory