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Professors: Hossain
Associate Professors: Elsayed, Hwang, Ragab
Assistant Professors: Stewart

Civil engineering is the application of mathematics, science, and engineering fundamentals for the benefit of society and the supporting infrastructure systems. Traditional civil engineering areas include:

• environmental engineering
  (pollution control including the design of water and waste water facilities);
• water resources
  (study of the flow of water over land, under ground and storage);
• transportation engineering
  (design of highways and studies of traffic flow);
• structural engineering
  (design of building, bridges and other related structures);
• geotechnical engineering
  (study of soil behaviors, foundation design, land slides and other topics).

The Civil Engineering Program offers a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE) with focus in transportation, water resources, structural, and geotechnical areas. Other traditional areas such as materials and environmental are covered in the curriculum, as well as a strong general education component. The faculty is involved in research, solving engineering problems in the community, and consulting work. These experiences are brought into the classroom so that students receive a well-rounded educational experience. This includes learning the engineering theory as well as the practical application of the theory to real-world problems.

The Civil Engineering Program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org/.

PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

The Civil Engineering Program educational objectives are:

• Graduates have successfully advanced in civil engineering practice as evidenced by their achievements and contributions to their employers and the greater engineering community.
• Graduates have pursued graduate degrees, obtained professional licensure, and/or completed professional development activities in continuing to advance their knowledge base in civil engineering or related professional fields.
• Graduates are actively working to improve their community and society in general by utilizing and sharing their engineering expertise.

The Civil Engineering Program’s outcomes define the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors that program graduates are expected to have by the time of graduation. Graduates of the Civil Engineering Program will have:

1. An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics;
2. An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors;
3. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
4. An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts;
5. An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives;
6. An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions; and
7. An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.

The Civil Engineering Program has published educational objectives that are consistent with the institutional mission and ABET criteria, has a process that periodically documents and demonstrates that the objectives are based on the needs of the program’s various constituencies, has an assessment and evaluation process that periodically documents and demonstrates the degree to which these objectives are attained, and uses the assessment results to improve the effectiveness of the program.

A complete 8-semester degree plan is available at https://www.astate.edu/info/academics/degrees/

Programs

• Civil Engineering, BSCE

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