Civil Engineering
By selecting technical electives, students may focus on one of several areas of concentration or prepare for future endeavors such as architecture. Some typical concentrations are below:
- Structural engineering: applications to steel and concrete buildings, bridges, and other structures
- Geotechnical engineering: soil mechanics, engineering geology, and foundation engineering
- Construction engineering and management:
capital facility planning and financing, strategic management, managing
engineering and construction processes, construction industry law,
construction techniques, managing civil infrastructure systems, civil
engineering and construction entrepreneurship
- Environmental engineering and water resources:
transport of water-borne substances, hydrology, sediment transport,
hydrogeology, and geoenvironmental design of containment systems