伊利诺伊州CEE内部的结构工程小组在其专业知识和声誉，课程种类以及研究多样性方面提供了无与伦比的卓越表现。结构工程师将科学与艺术相结合，设计并构建了我们的世界基础设施，以安全抵抗自然和人为力量。建筑物，桥梁，体育场，近海和其他民用设施定义了结构工程师的传统核心重点。在该领域的外围，结构工程更广泛地扩展到与机械，航空航天和海军工程共享共同的兴趣，以设计通常大型而复杂的系统，包括发电厂，管道，航空航天器和潜艇。纽马克结构工程实验室是活动的中心，正在进行大规模的实验测试研究，以开发新的，有弹性的结构系统，并创新
The Structural Engineering group within CEE at Illinois offers unparalleled excellence in the expertise and reputation of its faculty, the variety of its courses, and the diversity of its research. Structural engineers combine science and art to design and build our world's infrastructure to safely resist natural and man-made forces. Buildings, bridges, stadiums, off-shore and other civil facilities define the traditional core focus of structural engineers. At the periphery of the field, structural engineering extends more broadly to share common interests with mechanical, aerospace and naval engineering for the design of often large, complex systems including power plants, pipelines, aerospace vehicles and ships-submarines. The Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory is a hub of activity, with large-scale experimental testing research being conducted to develop new, resilient structural systems and innovate new approaches for rehabilitating the aging infrastructure. This experimental work is complemented by world-class research on a wide range of topics in computational mechanics and numerical simulation of structures.