General Information about Undergraduate Education
Students are first admitted to the college of engineering, (CIT), and then select a department during the freshman year. Transfer students from all programs, colleges, and universities are accepted to Civil and Environmental Engineering. The basic undergraduate degree leads to a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, and students with an interest in Environmental Engineering are encouraged to undertake the Minor in Environmental Engineering.
As summarized in the Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Catalog, the program education objectives of the Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering curriculum are to develop:
- graduates effectively tackle both routine and cutting-edge professional challenges at the intersections of the built, natural and information environments;
- graduates are successful and recognized as innovative and adaptive leaders in academic research, government service and private sector activity, over a wide range of engineering and non-engineering professions, and both in the U.S. and internationally; and
- graduates use the skills learned during their undergraduate education as leaders of their professional and social communities - problem finding/modeling/solving; critical and systems-level thinking; ethical reasoning; written, oral and graphical communications; collaborative team-building and problem solving; and self- and life-long learning.
The Civil Engineering curriculum is intended to allow ample opportunity for students to pursue areas of personal interest. The opportunity for self-exploration requires careful advising to gain meaningful educational experiences. We believe that design and team working experiences should occur at regular intervals in the curriculum, and that graduates should have appropriate “hands on” experience in laboratories and projects. Students are encouraged to participate in research projects and to pursue study or work abroad.
The vision, mission and values for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering can be found here.
Information about Undergraduate Program in CEE
Information about Admissions Process
- Students wishing to transfer to a Civil Engineering major from within Carnegie Mellon should consult the Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Patty Langer (patty@andrew.cmu.edu or 412-268-1070)
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