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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Civil Engineering, B.S.


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Civil Engineers design, build, and maintain the foundation of our modern society - our roads and bridges, drinking water, and energy systems, sea ports and airports, and the infrastructure for a cleaner environment.  They are responsible for our built environment.  Civil engineers work in many sectors - including structural, environmental, transportation, geotechnical, construction management, and water resources.  Throughout our day we are continually touched by the works of civil engineers whether by enabling power to reach us, providing clean water, handling waste and recycling, or providing the infrastructure that allows us to move and travel. The Civil Engineering major places a strong emphasis on hands-on experience and the art of engineering design along with concepts of sustainability and the design of Green Infrastructure and systems. The curriculum provides for breadth of knowledge in the civil engineering disciplines as well as offering an ability to focus on a specific area through the choice of electives.

Graduates will be well prepared to work as civil engineers in the public or private sectors as practicing engineers and to pursue further education in graduate school.

Civil Engineering, B.S. Learning Outcomes  

Degree Requirements

Institutional Degree Requirements  

Program-Specific Degree Requirements: To be eligible for graduation, students majoring in Civil Engineering must complete a minimum of 128 credits and earn a 2.0 grade average in required and elective major courses.

General Education Requirement


First Year Seminar


Foundations Requirement


Communication course:


Advanced Communication course:


Quantitative Fluency course:


Choose 3 credits of the following Global Citizenship courses or students have the option to complete this requirement by successfully completing 6 credits of the same language:


Disciplinary Perspectives Requirement


Choose 3 credits of the following Arts courses:


Choose 3 credits of the following Social and Behavioral Sciences courses:


Natural and Physical Sciences course:


Constellation Requirement


The Constellation requirement is met when a student completes four courses from a minimum of three disciplines within the Constellation requirements. Students who transfer in 60 credits or more at the time of admission to the college will be waived from the Constellation requirement, except for Education majors. The waiver applies to the requirement for graduation but does not waive the credits to graduate; students need to meet the overall bachelor’s degree credit requirement.

All student majoring in Civil Engineering will take CVE 400  (a High Impact Practice and Innovation course) which will fulfill both a major requirement and 3 credits of the constellation requirement for any constellation.

Required Courses


Required Major Courses


Biology Elective


Students must complete 3 credits of the following:

Design Course Electives


Students must complete a minimum of 6 credits from the courses below in two different disciplines (Structures, Environmental, Water Resources, or Construction):

Major Electives


Students must complete least 6 additional credits from the Design Course Electives or Major Electives below:

Additional Electives


Up to 3 credits of the 6 additional credits required may be taken from the following list to fulfill a CVE elective:

Suggested Course Sequence


Freshman Year


Fall (17 credits)


Summer Semester (6 credits)


  • Disciplinary Perspectives or Foundations course​ 3 credit hours
  • Disciplinary Perspectives or Foundations course​ 3 credit hours

Sophomore Year


Fall Semester (17-18 credits)


Junior Year


Spring Semester (2 credits)


Summer (Optional)


Senior Year


Fall Semester (15 credits)


Spring Semester (17-18 credits)


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