Civil Engineering

Mission

The Civil Engineering Program Faculty strives to create a high quality learning experience for our students. The principal goals include:

1. Provide a broad engineering education to our graduates that will prepare them for both current and future professional challenges.
2. Promote a commitment to continued scholarship and service among our graduates.
3. Foster a spirit of innovation so that our graduates are positioned to take advantage of new technology in our profession.
4. Promote an environment that is inclusive and diverse.
5. To attain prominence in key areas of Civil Engineering graduate education and research.

Program Objectives

Within the first several years following graduation, graduates should:

• Be successfully employed or employable in civil engineering practice in areas such as structural, geotechnical, transportation, construction, water resources, or related fields and/or be continuing their studies at the graduate level,
• Show a commitment to ethical practice, protection of public health and safety, and professional development through activities such as continuing education, self-directed life-long learning, professional licensure, and service to the profession and society.

Educational Outcomes

Our graduates will:

1. Solve problems that involve differential and integral calculus, differential equations, analytical and numerical solutions, and statistics.
2. Solve problems that address engineering economics issues such as life-cycle analysis and the selection of alternatives.
3. Solve problems involving topics from physics such as vector mechanics, dynamics, force and energy balance.
4. Be exposed to the role of an engineer involving ethics, professionalism, engineering practice and registration.
5. Demonstrate the ability to conduct experiments, collect information, and analyze and interpret data.
6. Demonstrate an ability to communicate their ideas effectively through written and oral reports.
7. Demonstrate that they have worked in teams to solve engineering problems.
8. Be aware of the need to continuously update their knowledge through registration, continuing education, and participating in professional societies.
9. Be able to complete a comprehensive enviromental engineering design project incorporating the use of design and regulatory standards, and realistic constraints that could include contemporary issues such as economics, globalization, societal impact and safety.
10. Be exposed to real-world problems and solutions.