The graduate program in civil and environmental engineering is designed as a continuation of the undergraduate program. Students are required to declare a major field that will determine the required and elective courses that may be taken. The first major area is in the field of structures with courses in materials, design, and analysis of structures. Coverage includes steel design and analysis, reinforced concrete design and analysis, structural design, offshore structural analysis, and plates and shells analysis.
Extensive use is made of computer-aded design and analysis techniques.
The second area of departmental expertise is in the field of environmental engineering with courses covering biological treatment, physical and chemical treatment, advanced environmental engineering laboratory, hazardous waste treatment, groundwater modeling, water quality modeling, and hydrology. The third area is in the field of geotechnical engineering. Courses cover theoretical and experimental soil mechanics, foundation engineering, design of earth structures, statistical methods, and advanced topics in geotechnical engineering. Students are required to use the computer and present short papers in some classes. A graduate seminar is scheduled in which graduate students and faculty participate with invited nationally recognized engineering experts in various fields of civil and environmental engineering.