The mission of the civil engineering program is to prepare students for professional engineering and management positions in all phases of civil engineering projects.
The program will provide a broad educational background with a foundation in basic engineering and business principles. These basic skills will be complemented by advanced topics in engineering design, management, finance, computer applications, and real world civil engineering experiences throughout the baccalaureate degree program.
The civil engineering program will fulfill the overall mission of the Department of Engineering and will also meet the following goals:
- Understanding of fundamental engineering concepts that nurture problem solving abilities.
- Knowledge of basic civil engineering skills to prepare graduates for immediate productivity upon graduation.
- A background in management skills as they relate to working with financial matters as well as with people from diverse backgrounds.
- The ability to communicate ideas, processes, and designs effectively.
The teaching philosophy of this program will focus on project-based learning.
This will be achieved by placing competent, practicing engineers in the classroom as professors, engaging students in the practice of civil engineering through hands-on class projects, and involving students in faculty consulting and applied research activities. Real engineering projects will often serve as class projects. Project sites and professional engineering and construction management firm offices will often serve as classrooms.
The program achieves its mission by focusing on specific educational objectives. They are:
Objective 1: Engineering Design
Graduates solve engineering problems and develop executable designs. They combine their understanding of technical, ethical, economic, and environmental issues to efficiently solve engineering problems and develop designs that are executable and realistically constructible.
Objective 2: Project Management
Graduates include in their problem solving process the consideration of business and management principles, primarily budget, schedule, and cost. They work effectively both as an individual and on teams.
Objective 3: Communications
Graduates have the ability to communicate, in a professional manner, their designs and processes to a diverse audience. They demonstrate effective utilization of oral, written, graphical, and visual communication skills in the context of civil engineering.
Objective 4: Employment and Regional Relevancy
Our graduates meet the needs of regional organizations that traditionally employ civil engineers and contribute to its economic development.
Objective 5: Professional Licensure
Our graduates pursue and achieve professional licensure
Objective 6: Professionalism
Graduates exhibit a strong work ethic and a commitment and passion for the profession. They adapt to an ever-changing world by engaging in life-long learning beyond the workplace through memberships to professional societies and attendance of meetings and conferences. They are ethical in their approach to their work.
Objective 7: Technical Tools
Graduates make effective use of state of the art engineering tools of their profession to efficiently execute their engineering designs and increase their productivity.
