They can find work anywhere in the world, because there are needs for physical facilities everywhere. Graduates with a civil engineering degree also enter other professions or career paths. These graduates have a broad, problem solving background from their civil engineering studies, which can provide an excellent preparation for many careers. Civil engineering graduates may work as medical doctors, lawyers, military officers, managers, software engineers or in many other positions. Environmental engineering developed as an area of civil engineering and now is important in all civil engineering activities.
Environmental engineers identify and design solutions for environmental problems.
They provide safe drinking water, manage wastes, maintain air quality, control water pollution, and clean sites contaminated by spills or improper disposal of hazardous wastes. Increasingly, pollution prevention is as important a concern for environmental engineers as treatment and management of wastes. Carnegie Mellon offers a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and an undergraduate engineering minor in Environmental Engineering. The Bachelor of Science program in Civil Engineering is an accredited and widely recognized degree program for entry into the civil engineering profession. The minor in environmental engineering is offered for any engineering students interested in focusing on this important specialization area.