Graduate Study Options

Tailored, Multidisciplinary Educational Experiences that Yield Clear Competitive Advantage

At the graduate level, the department educates leaders in infrastructure and environmental engineering research and practice, with emphasis on the use of reliability and risk management. Reliability and risk management include engineering design, uncertainty analysis, construction and repair, life-cycle and costbenefit analysis, information management and fundamental phenomena intrinsic to the understanding of advanced infrastructure and environmental systems. 

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department is an international leader in many areas, including Risk and Reliability Engineering and Nuclear Waste Management.  Graduate students seeking M.S., M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees are engaged in thesis or dissertation research corresponding to one of the ongoing research areas of the department, and have the opportunities to work with our world-renowned faculty.

Graduate Degrees:  Civil and Environmental Engineering:

	M.Eng.	M.S.	Ph.D.
Civil Engineering	✔	✔	✔
Environmental Engineering	✔	✔	✔
C.E., Construction Management	✔
Risk, Reliability, & Resilience Engineering	✔

Applications due January 1.

*M.Eng - Construction Management applications accepted year round.

Within the Civil and Environmental Engineering, graduate students may concentrate their studies in various areas of expertise:

Civil Engineering areas of emphasis:

• Civil and Infrastructure Systems Engineering
• Materials and Structural Engineering

Environmental Engineering areas of emphasis:

• Environmental Materials & Materials Durability
• Nuclear Environmental Engineering
• Resilience & Sustainability
• Water Resources, Quality, & Treatment

Construction Management areas of emphasis:

• Healthcare Construction
• Commercial Construction 
• Project Delivery Systems

Risk, Reliability and Resilience areas of emphasis:

• Infrastructure
• Defense Systems
• Energy and Environment
• Transportation
• Medicine