Civil engineering is a broad field. Geo-technical engineers oversee tunneling when a city expands its underground transit systems, and environmental engineers work to reduce harmful industrial emissions while maintaining a region’s economic health. Structural, hydraulic and construction management are three more areas of specialization. 

You’ll learn to analyze and interpret complex data while identifying and solving engineering problems in more than a dozen labs and workshops. The fluids lab, for example, has a wind tunnel and instruments that measure fluid flow and pressure. The environmental workshop contains both bench top and field equipment for the analysis of water and wastewater, and the fabrications lab is where you’ll create prototypes and mockups of your designs so you can test your ideas.

You’ll have the opportunity to join the ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers), conduct STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs with area elementary schools; get work experience with an internship; or study abroad. Our civil engineering majors have worked or interned at companies such as the New Hampshire Department of Transportation, Gilbane and AECOM.