202 Apperson Hall Oregon State Univ. All students receive basic instruction in all disciplines, with the option for additional elective courses in desired areas. The ABET-accredited civil engineering curriculum is designed to prepare students for professional engineering registration and for responsible engineering positions with business, industry, consulting firms, the military, utilities, or public agencies. The curriculum includes basic sciences, social sciences, humanities, communication skills, engineering sciences, and engineering design.
All students receive basic instruction in all disciplines.
Additional elective courses are also selected from the discipline specialties or from outside the department. Communication skills are especially important for Civil Engineers as they deal extensively with the public. Design is the essence of civil engineering, and training draws upon the basic and engineering sciences plus non-technical and societal factors to provide an integrated approach to solutions of a practical nature. The concept of design is introduced during the freshman orientation course, with most of the capability developed at the junior and senior level, culminating in a team approach to solution of open-ended, realistic problems drawn from the professional experience of the faculty. A more detailed explanation of the design experience and design course sequences is contained in the Advising Guide for the Civil Engineering Program , which may be obtained form the department or viewed on the department's Web site.