B.S. in Civil Engineering

Civil engineers plan, design, and construct our nation’s physical infrastructure and take a leadership role in the responsible development and protection of our natural resources. Accordingly, the field of civil engineering encompasses several distinct disciplinary themes, including architectural engineering, construction engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, and water resources engineering, among others.

Civil engineers always have been at the forefront of such activities as designing and constructing bridges, buildings, water and wastewater treatment facilities, hydropower stations, storm drainage systems, airports, aerospace structures, and other public works. They also have taken a leadership role in eliminating the hazardous and solid wastes of society, responsibly developing surface and groundwater resources for beneficial use, managing environmental quality and minimizing the effects of pollutants, mitigating earthquake damage in large structures, and using artificial intelligence to improve the operation of transportation systems.

Within the context provided by the broad profession of civil engineering described above, the mission of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, formally stated, is to educate talented and motivated men and women to become successful professionals through quality undergraduate and graduate programs that place a high priority on student access and interaction with faculty. This mission statement establishes the educational framework for the civil engineering degree program at Clarkson, and the curriculum objectives given below provide more detail about the program.

CURRICULUM OBJECTIVES
With an appreciation for the disciplinary diversity of Civil Engineering, Clarkson’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering actively pursues the educational goal of providing talented and motivated men and women with the knowledge and intellectual tools required to become successful civil engineers. It does so by permitting students to pursue individual disciplinary interests or to remain broadly based in all areas of Civil Engineering while obtaining an accredited BSCE degree (Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering). The program objectives may be stated as shown below:

• Develop students whose engineering knowledge can meet the challenges of a successful professional career.
• Ensure students acquire good communication and leadership skills.
• Foster an intellectually stimulating environment for professional development.
• Develop a relationship between students and faculty that produces a personal interest in the student’s education and professional development.

Moreover, the Department’s approach to the achievement of these objectives may be summarized as:

• offering a quality undergraduate program that places a high priority on student access and faculty interaction within an environment that is intellectually stimulating and encourages professional development,
• providing its graduates with the engineering knowledge needed to meet the life-long challenges of a successful professional career, and valuing good communication and leadership skills.

It is expected that graduates from the BSCE program will demonstrate achievement of these objectives within a few years after completing the program.

Science and engineering-science courses form the majority of the curriculum in the first two years. These courses provide the base for the professionally oriented courses in the junior and senior years. The curriculum is designed to provide all graduates with a theoretical foundation as well as design experiences in structural, geotechnical, water resources, and environmental engineering. This foundation is typically achieved in the junior year, enabling students to use the senior year to select elective courses in areas where their particular interests have developed. In the senior year a capstone design course culminates the development of design skills that were first introduced in the sophomore year and enhanced in subsequent courses.

Students can select elective courses in areas beyond the required courses, such as construction and transportation, or can use the elective portion of the curriculum to concentrate in selected areas such as architectural engineering, construction engineering, structural engineering, environmental engineering, materials engineering, or technical communications.

The guiding principle is that the student and faculty advisor together create a program of study that best satisfies the student’s individual career objectives.

Civil Engineering Curriculum
FIRST YEAR (See Common First-Year Curriculum in Engineering)
SOPHOMORE YEAR
First Semester			Second Semester
Course	Title	Cr. Hrs.	Course	Title	Cr. Hrs.
ES220	Statics	3	ES222	Strength of Materials	3
CE212	Intro. to Engineering			ES Elective1	3
	Design	3	MA232	Elem. Differential
MA231	Calculus III	3		Equations	3
	ES Elective1	3	ES330	Fluid Mechanics	3
	KA/UC Elective	3		KA/UC Elective	3
		15			15
JUNIOR YEAR
First Semester			Second Semester
Course	Title	Cr. Hrs.	Course	Title	Cr. Hrs.
Mathematics	Geospatial Science		CE310	Geotechnical
Elective	w/lab	3		Eng. I w/lab	3
CE320	Structural Analysis			ES Elective1	3
	w/lab	3	CE340	Environmental
CE330	Water Resources			Eng. w/lab	3
	w/lab	3	CE301	Geospatial Science
	Professional Elective	3		w/ Lab	3
	KA/UC Elective	3	CE441	or CE442 Structural
				Design Elective	3
		15
					15
SENIOR YEAR
First Semester			Second Semester
Course	Title	Cr. Hrs.	Course	Title	Cr. Hrs.
EC350	Engineering		CE490	CE491, or CE492
	Economics	3		or CE493
	Professional			Senior Design	3
	Electives	12		Professional Electives	12
		15			15

Eligible ES electives are: ES223 Rigid Body Dynamics, ES250 Electrical Science, ES260 Material Science, ES340 Thermodynamics I

A total of 16.5 design credits are required to be accumulated. Required courses provide 11.5 design credits.

Professional Specializations
Through the selection of electives, students can achieve proficiency in particular areas of interest. Elective courses can be selected from those offered by the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and by other departments. Those electives considered especially appropriate to the various areas of specialization in civil engineering are provided in the following topical listings. Not all courses are offered each year or each semester (see annual Courses publication). All 500-numbered courses are graduate level. Undergraduate students enrolled in 500-level courses must have a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.0, and permission of their advisor and their department chair. To enroll in a 600-numbered course, undergraduates must have a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.0, and must have permission of their advisor, department chair, and the dean of Engineering. See Professional Concentrations in Engineering.

Course Descriptions
Descriptions of all undergraduate and graduate courses will be supplied upon request or may be viewed online at www.clarkson.edu/sas.