Educational Objectives
The major objectives of our undergraduate program are to produce graduates who:
- Are prepared to enter the civil engineering practice and continue at levels of increasing professional responsibility.
- Will endeavor to become licensed professional engineers.
- Will continue their professional development through participation and leadership in professional organizations.
- Are capable of pursuing life-long learning.
- prepare students for leadership roles in careers with industry, government, or educational institutions
- develop research capabilities that may culminate in a thesis documenting a substantial contribution to the body of engineering knowledge
- Extend development of research capabilities and depth of study by graduate students beyond the master of science level.
- Encourage personal academic development to a level of understanding of environmental science and engineering sufficient that demonstrates readiness to advance to doctoral candidacy.
- Conduct independent research, including successful preparation and defense of a dissertation that clearly shows the extension of the body of knowledge in a particular area of environmental engineering.