Civil & Environmental Engineering - Lafayette College

Civil & Environmental Engineering from Lafayette College is a Campus Bachelor Environmental Engineering degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. Our mission is to provide a broad civil engineering education that is integrated with the liberal arts and emphasizes student-faculty interaction. Civil engineers, like all engineers, are problem-solvers. They find optimal ways to design and construct bridges, roadways, transit systems, buildings, tunnels, dams, landfills, flood control systems, water and wastewater treatment systems, and hazardous waste management systems. They are also involved in infrastructure management and water resource management. Lafayette's civil engineering curriculum prepares students for a variety of situations by emphasizing fundamental principles of engineering , an appreciation of the effect of human factors upon technology, logical thinking, resourcefulness in meeting new conditions, and ethical considerations in the application of science to human problems. Design skills are developed in a series of courses beginning in ES101?Introduction to Engineering in the first semester of the first year followed by CE Design I, CE Design II, and CE Design III in each year of the remaining three years. Design components are found in several of the required courses as well as most departmental technical electives. In addition to a thorough grounding in science and technology, students select about one-fifth of their courses in the liberal arts. Civil engineering majors have the opportunity to complete minors (and some cases majors) in the liberal arts within a four-year period of study. The department offers a broad choice of courses that gives students the opportunity to focus on structural, environmental, geotechnical, transportation, construction, or water resources engineering. The curriculum includes laboratory- based courses in each of these six sub-fields of civil engineering . No matter which area you choose, all civil engineering majors have the chance to work with active, dedicated faculty members who are well-respected in their areas of teaching and research. Juniors and seniors may do independent research and qualified seniors may work on an honors thesis with the guidance of a department professor. Students often publish their research results in scholarly journals or present their findings at professional meetings. Outstanding civil engineering students are honored for their academic achievement by election to Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. View more details on Lafayette College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Environmental Engineering courses.