Mission

  • Prepare students to excel in civil and environmental engineering and related fields.
  • Make clear to students that above all else, the civil and environmental engineering profession is committed to bettering the world.
  • Provide modern, fundamental, practice-oriented education in the civil and environmental engineering field.
  • Foster creativity and critical thinking in problem solving and motivate students to consider the societal consequences of their work.
  • Enable students to be leaders in their profession, community, and the nation.

Educational Objectives

Civil and Environmental Engineering graduates of the David Crawford School of Engineering should have the foundation to:

  • Participate in project teams in their chosen field of Civil and Environmental Engineering research, design, construction, or management, progressively rising to positions of technical or managerial leadership.
  • Evaluate a Civil and Environmental Engineering need and appropriately apply knowledge of natural and engineering sciences to fulfill that need.
  • Be respected and recognized for technical competence in the creation of solutions that balance sustainability, societal and economic challenges.
  • Become active citizens in their profession, community, the nation and the world.
  • Communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Actively engage in continuing education throughout life.

Outcomes

  • Apply scientific and fundamental engineering knowledge based upon a strong foundation in advanced mathematics, chemistry, physics, and the engineering sciences.
  • Design and conduct hands-on experiments, use appropriate laboratory equipment to develop, analyze and interpret data.
  • Design a component system or process in the civil and environmental engineering field that meets performance, quality, cost, time, safety, environmental and sustainable requirements.
  • Function as a member of a multidisciplinary team and be able to assume leadership roles on the team.
  • Determine into which technical area of civil and environmental engineering a project belongs and be able to analyze a project within at least four technical area.
  • Recognize and achieve a high level of professional and ethical conduct in all aspects of engineering work and can analyze a professional dilemma.
  • Formulate and deliver effective written and verbal communications of laboratory, analytical and design project work to a variety of audiences.
  • Understand and incorporate non-technical considerations into an engineering solution including safety, environmental, social, economic, and global issues.
  • Recognize the need for civil and environmental engineers to engage in lifelong learning and begin the process by taking the FE examination.
  • Be knowledgeable of contemporary issues in civil and environmental engineering.
  • Utilize techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for civil and environmental engineering practice.
  • With the knowledge that engineering changes society, civil and environmental engineers must understand that they are leaders.

Accreditation

The Civil and Environmental Engineering degree program curriculum is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (EAC/ABET). The curriculum is also strengthened by activities of the Norwich student chapters of the American Society of Civil and environmental engineers, Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, and the Society of American Military Engineers.