Careers in Civil & Environmental Engineering

Many of our students receive job offers before graduation. In fact, our placement rate for graduates is at or near 100 percent. In addition, our students are highly recruited by the most prestigious and respected graduate engineering and law schools in the nation, including Cornell University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Texas A&M, Rice University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Notre Dame and University of Texas at Austin.

Civil engineers, the leading users of high technology in wide-ranging applications in both the public and the private sectors, are essential to the continued improvement of society. Civil engineers can enter traditional fields such as construction, bridge and building design and analysis, highway design and traffic control, water treatment and distribution, environmental engineering, hydraulics, and geotechnics. Their broad education, however, also prepares them for materials engineering, engineering management, and the aerospace and automotive industries. Civil engineering has applications in conceptual and detail design, field operations, computers, and consulting.

Many of our graduates benefit from employment opportunities available through the School's network of alumni and business partners, including Miller-Valentine, Shook, Turner Construction and others.