Doctoral Degree in Civil Engineering

Degree: Doctor of Engineering
Major: Civil Engineering
Hours: 61

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Civil Engineering Overview

The �鶹��Ƶ Doctor of Engineering in Civil Engineering is designed to prepare you, as a practicing civil engineer, to advance research, development and education for addressing national and global challenges towards a highly sustainable industrial-based focus on infrastructure and transit architecture projects.

This program offers competitive scholarships and assistantships for you as a highly qualified student with research interests compatible with those of the civil and environmental engineering faculty.

Civil Engineering Courses You May Take

Special Topics: An investigation into specialized study in advanced areas of engineering under guidance of a faculty member. This course may be repeated for credit when topics of investigation differ.

Design Projects: A focused semester-long project aimed at analyzing or designing a civil engineering system. Projects focus on identifying failure modes, design requirements and standards as well as a comparison of potential alternatives across various criteria of interest including, but not limited to, risk and reliability, costs and benefits, environmental impacts, sustainability, resilience and safety. May be repeated for credit when the subject matter varies. The design project will culminate in a written report and an oral presentation.

Advanced Geotech Engineering: Investigate practical applications of soil mechanics principals to geotechnical engineering, dewatering techniques, design and analysis of deep foundations and retaining structures.

Chemical Principles Environment Systems: Introduction to aquatic and atmospheric chemistry, chemical kinetics and equilibrium, acid-base chemistry, chemical buffer, metal-ligand chemistry, precipitation and dissolution, redox chemistry and radical chemistry.

Stormwater Management and Design: Introduction of stormwater quality and quantity management and simulation models (e.g., SWMM, StormCAD), introduction to the Best Management Practice and Total Maximum Daily Load for coastal areas, and design of urban stormwater system facilities, e.g., detention ponds, culverts, channel system and stormwater pipes.

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Career Paths for Civil Engineering

Civil and environmental engineers design a safer, cleaner world for all of us. Your career in civil and environmental engineering will allow you to make sure that we all have safe places to live and work. You'll provide us with clean drinking water and ways to live sustainably. With the world’s growing population and our limited natural resources, your work will be extremely important in ensuring sustainable development of our resources.