The Mission of the department has three elements:

• To provide excellent instruction and design experiences essential for graduates to enter the practice of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering and pursue lifelong professional development.

• To provide research opportunities for students that generate, communicate, and apply new knowledge for the betterment of society.

• To foster a spirit of service and leadership among students and faculty and assist the public in addressing issues concerning using our resources, protecting our environment, and developing our infrastructure.

• To apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering.

• To design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data.

• To design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.

• To function on multidisciplinary teams.

• To identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems.

• To have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.

• To communicate effectively.

• To have a broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.

• To see the need for, and to have an ability to engage in life-long learning.

• To have a knowledge of contemporary issues.

• To use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.

To enable the CONE graduate to be successful, the curriculum is designed to assure that at the time of graduation, the CONE graduate is able: