With today s fast-paced technological changes, civil engineering provides unique and unlimited career opportunities that can only be met by professionally educated people. The civil engineering program is designed with a broad base to prepare men and women for careers in all phases of civil engineering and to enable them to perform other managerial and technical functions which require scientific and engineering backgrounds. The curriculum embraces a sound core of humanities and social studies courses in addition to those in physics, chemistry and mathematics. To this is added a substructure of engineering sciences. Areas of study include geo-technical, structural, hydraulic, environmental, surveying, and construction engineering.
Electives are available to fit the individual interest of the civil engineering student.
Because of the wide scope of activities in which the civil engineer is engaged, and the broad spectrum of student interest, civil engineering graduates may choose either to enter the profession immediately after receiving their bachelor s degree or go directly to graduate school. No matter what the student chooses, the curriculum provides a firm foundation for today s world. To encourage and assist scholars in civil engineering, the Katherine E. and William C. Mundt endowment was established in 1983. In addition, the Tony Paine Memorial Scholarship was established in 1988 and the David Bernsen Endowed Scholarship in 1997. These funds provide scholarships for qualified students.