Civil and Environmental Engineering

专业详情

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University is a premier research and academic department ranked among the top departments in the nation.

With award-winning, internationally-renowned faculty members, the department provides graduate students with an exceptional range of opportunities to advance their knowledge and careers in a scholarly community that’s small enough to assure individual attention and effective mentoring. Our department prepares graduate students to become the next generation of leaders in research, academic, corporate, and public service settings.

Specializations

The graduate programs above are earned through one these five academic programs:

• Environmental engineering and science (MS and PhD)
• Geotechnical engineering (MS and PhD)
• Mechanics, materials, and structures (PhD)
• Structural engineering and design (MS)
• Transportation systems analysis and planning (MS and PhD)

Students in these programs work with their advisors to construct study plans that are suited to their unique background and interests. These include extensive options for courses outside civil and environmental engineering that address a wide variety of social, economic, and physical challenges in constructing and managing private and public infrastructure.