Program Overview
Emphasizing hands-on learning and industry-relevant skills, the program provides a strong foundation in engineering sciences and specializes in areas like transportation, environmental, and sustainable design. Graduates are well-equipped to enter the dynamic civil engineering industry or pursue advanced studies.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Civil Engineering, B.S. It provides students with a comprehensive skill set and leadership background needed to address society's needs at local, regional, and global levels.
Program Objectives:
The undergraduate program is designed to meet the following specific objectives:
- Be employed as engineers or be enrolled in engineering or professional graduate school.
- Demonstrate their commitment to lifelong learning and professional development through seeking professional licensure, pursuing graduate studies, or participating in other professional continuing education activities.
- Advance into leadership roles in their profession and in service to their communities.
- Create design solutions that address economic, social, and environmental factors in their professional engineering practice.
Program Description:
The program emphasizes professional practice preparation using project-based, hands-on learning methods. Students have access to sophisticated computer-aided design laboratories, structures laboratories, and other resources. The curriculum provides a solid foundation in engineering sciences, including solid mechanics and fluid dynamics, and includes courses related to construction, environmental, geotechnical, structural, transportation, and water resources engineering fields.
Teaching:
- The program emphasizes professional practice preparation using project-based, hands-on learning methods.
- Students have access to sophisticated computer-aided design laboratories, structures laboratories, and other resources.
- The curriculum provides a solid foundation in engineering sciences, including solid mechanics and fluid dynamics, and includes courses related to construction, environmental, geotechnical, structural, transportation, and water resources engineering fields.
Careers:
- After graduation, students with a B.S. in civil engineering can pursue graduate study or enter one of the most dynamic industries in the United States.
- Industry and government agencies have long recognized the quality of engineering graduates from the School of Science and Engineering.
- Some potential career paths include:
- Missouri and Illinois departments of transportation
- Missouri Sewer District
- State, county, and municipal engineering offices
- Army Corps of Engineers
- Private engineering firms such as Black and Veatch, Parsons, etc.
- Construction companies
- U.S. Air Force, Army, and Navy
Other:
- Students have the opportunity to join many student clubs such as the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Engineers Without Borders, and Billikens for Clean Water.
- SLU's civil engineering faculty is very active in research, and there are many opportunities for students to help conduct research during the academic year and summer.
- SLU's modern and well-equipped laboratories emphasize experimental methods and measurement techniques. The civil engineering laboratory facilities include a variety of equipment and provide spaces specifically designated for soil mechanics, environmental engineering, construction materials testing, hydraulic modeling, and structural testing.
- Students in SLU's civil engineering program may specialize in areas such as infrastructure evaluation and design, transportation analysis and planning, and green engineering and sustainable design.
