Vision

Develop and maintain a learning community that pursues new knowledge and understanding and provides innovative and sustainable solutions to human and ecological needs.

Mission

Create, integrate and transfer civil and environmental engineering knowledge and practice in the development of professionals, leaders and citizens who help define and serve societal and environmental needs by applying this knowledge and practice in an effective and sustainable manner.

Objectives

Prepare BSCE graduates to contribute to their communities through the following career and professional accomplishments:

1. Design and construct both natural and built processes and systems to meet determined needs using technical knowledge; computer tools; design principles; and communication, leadership and team skills.

2. Utilize measurement and analysis tools along with experimental data in investigating natural and built systems.

3. Understand and incorporate economic, environmental, political, social, safety and global considerations in design, investigation and construction of natural and built systems.

4. Maintain analysis and design tools and experience through lifelong learning and serve others through participation in professional and/or civic activities and responsibilities.

Outcomes

1. Evaluate society's needs for constructed facilities and natural systems, and structure, processes or conditions to meet these needs. Design facilities and systems while protecting the environment, conserving resources and maintaining quality of life.

2. Select and apply an appropriate analysis method to solve well-defined problems related to civil engineering using knowledge of mathematics, statistics, science and tools, natural and engineering sciences, material properties and civil engineering.

3. Understand and use instrumentation and methods to obtain data, and calibrate and validate devices and processes, including assessment of accuracy and errors.

4. Participate in various roles of a team whose function is to define, analyze and synthesize a solution to an open-ended design problem. Understand the problem's relevant multidisciplinary aspects and contemporary issues.

5. Understand the role of a leader and leadership principles and attitudes.

6. Prepare and present well-organized written engineering solutions, designs and plans that are appropriate for a particular audience.

7. Recognize and respond to ethical and legal, economic, health and environment, political, safety and social factors in decisions that affect project completion, analysis, design, construction, operation and conduct of duties.

8. Understand common failure mechanisms and analyze the failure risk or actual failure of a process or system.

9. Understand principal elements of project management, construction and asset management and their relation to project development, operation and maintenance. Understand fundamentals of business, public policy and administration and their relation to project development, operation and maintenance.

10. Determine the life-cycle cost of a process, component or system and perform basic analyses of alternative, feasible solutions for a project.

11. Recognize the need and plan to engage in lifelong learning.

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