Civil Engineering is a profession that deals with the infrastructure of society and impacts your everyday life. From the roads and bridges you use every day to the drinking water that comes out of your tap at home, civil engineers work to develop safe, efficient and sustainable ways to continually improve our infrastructure.

Research

Work with faculty engaged in leading-edge research in areas such as:

• Social and environmental impacts of transportation development
• Flexible pavement design
• Fatigue and fracture mechanics
• Hydrodynamic modeling
• Environmental fluid mechanics
• Application of nanomaterials in construction

Career Paths

Civil engineers work in all levels of government and throughout the private sector.

• Structural Designer
• Construction Manager
• Civil Drafter
• Senior Pipeline Engineer
• Project Engineer
• Construction Inspector

Honors in the Major

Students in Civil Engineering who meet all of the following criteria can be awarded honors in the major upon graduation:

A 3.000 cumulative GPA in all UWM graded credits;

A 3.500 GPA over all upper-division (300-level and higher) Civ Eng courses;

Participation in the Accelerated MS Degree program with successful completion of 6 credits at the undergraduate level that can apply towards the MS degree program.

• Geotechnical Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Transportation and Municipal Engineering
Water Resources and Environmental Engineering