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Vanderbilt's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers a broad-based education in civil and environmental engineering fundamentals, coupled with development of leadership, management, and communications skills to establish a foundation for lifelong learning and flexible career development. This goal requires going beyond technical competence in a balanced education to develop future leaders in the fields of consulting, industry, business, law, government, and research. Civil engineers must be able to face complex problems of modern society involving the development of physical facilities that serve the public while protecting the environment and preserving social values. Challenges facing civil and environmental engineers concern housing, urban transportation, pollution control, water resources development, industrial development, maintaining and advancing our nation's aging infrastructure, and exploring space. Addressing these challenges with today's limited resources requires innovative and original ideas from highly-skilled engineers.
Undergraduates majoring in civil engineering receive a strong background in mathematics, science, engineering science, and engineering design. The program also includes courses in economics, humanities, social sciences, resources management, and public policy. Students participate in design teams and laboratory studies as well as classroom activities. Use of various computer-based methods is integral to problem solving and design.
Degree Programs. At the undergraduate level, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers the B.E. in civil engineering. The curriculum includes upper-level analysis and design courses in structural, geotechnical, environmental, water resources, and transportation engineering. In addition, a major in chemical engineering with a minor in environmental engineering is available.
Vanderbilt's B.E. in civil engineering prepares students for entry-level positions in many specialty areas of civil engineering, as well as many other types of careers, such as business, construction, and law. Today, however, and even more so in the future, professional practice at a high level will require an advanced degree. We recommend that students seriously consider pursuing the M.S. or M. Eng. soon after obtaining the B.E.
At the graduate level, the department educates leaders in infrastructure and environmental engineering research and practice, with emphasis on the use of reliability and risk management. Reliability and risk management includes engineering design, uncertainty analysis, construction and repair, life-cycle and cost-benefit analysis, information management, and fundamental phenomena intrinsic to the understanding of advanced infrastructure and environmental systems. Example applications include performance, reliability and safety of structures, restoration of contaminated sites, transportation control systems, management of environmental resources, and enhancement of the eco-compatibility of industry. Development and application of advanced information systems as applied to civil and environmental engineering needs is an important part of the program.
The graduate program in civil engineering offers the M.S. and Ph.D., with emphasis in the areas of structural engineering and mechanics and transportation engineering.
The graduate program in environmental engineering offers the M.S. and Ph.D. in the areas of environmental engineering and environmental science, with emphasis in water resources, quality, and treatment; resilience and sustainability; nuclear environmental engineering; and environmental materials and materials durability. Both thesis and non-thesis options are available at the M.S. level.
The graduate programs in both civil engineering and environmental engineering also offer the master of engineering (M.Eng.), an advanced professional degree especially designed for practicing engineers wanting to pursue post-baccalaureate study on a part-time basis, and for engineers seeking greater emphasis on engineering design as part of graduate education.
B.E./M.Eng. Five Year Program. Students seeking advanced study in civil and environmental engineering may be interested in the combined B.E./M.Eng., enabling students to complete the B.E. in civil engineering and M.Eng. in civil engineering or environmental engineering in five years.
Construction Management Five Year Program. Students seeking advanced study in construction management may be particularly interested in the combined B.E./M.Eng., enabling students to complete the B.E. in civil engineering and M.Eng. in civil engineering (construction management emphasis) in five years.
Undergraduate Honors Program. Recognized with the diploma designation Honors in Civil Engineering, exceptional students may be invited in their junior year to participate in the civil engineering Honors Program. Designed as a unique individualized educational experience, participants work closely with departmental faculty members to tailor a selection of courses that actively immerses them in a selected field of study. Experiences include enrollment in a 3 semester hour independent study course and participation in a summer research internship. Honors Program participants are especially well-prepared to enter graduate study, and they may count the independent study course towards their civil engineering technical electives.
Facilities. The civil engineering laboratory provides for static and dynamic testing of materials and structural components and assemblies. Testing facilities include capabilities of testing composites, metals, and concrete under static loads, fatigue, base acceleration (to simulate seismic events) and intermediate to high speed impacts (to simulate responses to blast events). Full soils testing facilities are available. Hydraulics facilities include several model flow systems to illustrate principles of fluid mechanics and hydrology. The transportation laboratory is computer-based, with emphasis on transportation systems and design, intelligent transportation systems, and geographic information systems.
The environmental laboratories are fully supplied with modern instrumentation for chemical, physical, biological, and radiological analysis of soils, sediments, water, wastewater, air, and solid waste. They include equipment for the study of biological waste treatment, physical-chemical waste treatment, contaminant mass transfer, and state-of-the-art instrumentation for gas and liquid chromatography, mass spectroscopy, atomic absorption spectroscopy, gamma spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy, gas adsorption (for pore structure determination), thermal mechanical analysis, modulated scanning differential calorimetry, and simultaneous thermal gravimetric analysis differential scanning calorimetry/mass spectroscopy. All are available for student use in courses, demonstrations, and research.