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Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and environmental engineers design, plan and construct infrastructure systems
including buildings, bridges, highways, airports, tunnels, pipelines, channels, waste-water systems, waste site, remediation
systems, power generating plants, manufacturing
facilities, dams and harbors. These
infrastructure systems are key to sustaining
human development and activities, and civil and
environmental engineers must consider technical
as well as economic, environmental, aesthetic
and social aspects.
Many projects are sufficiently large and
complex that civil and environmental engineers
seldom work alone, but usually are part of an
interdisciplinary team, and so benefit from a
broad-based education.
The Civil and Environmental Engineering
department offers several areas of
specialization including: Construction
Engineering and Management, Environmental
Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydraulic and Hydrological Engineering, Materials and Highway Engineering, and
Structural Engineering. For more information on
these fields, please go here.
Students who do well in their undergraduate
program are encouraged to consider graduate
work and may take some of their electives in
preparation for graduate study. The Sequential
Graduate/ Undergraduate Study (SGUS) programs
available in this department are described
here.
Information and assistance regarding
fellowships and assistantships for graduate
studies may be obtained in the Academic
Services Office of the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering.
The Civil and Environmental Engineering
departmental offices are in the George Granger
Brown Building on the North Campus. The G. G.
Brown Building houses several state-of-the-art
research and teaching laboratories in the area
of construction engineering and management
structures and materials, hydraulics and soil
mechanics.
The Environmental and Water Resources
Engineering Building and the west wing of the
Engineering Research Building house the
laboratories for environmental and water
resources engineering. Equipment is available
for physical and biological studies, analytical
determinations, and data analyses in
environmental science as well as in
water-quality engineering.
This program is accredited for the degree
B.S.E. in Civil Engineering by the Engineering
Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation
Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), 111 Market
Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012, telephone (410) 347-7700.
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