Lyles School of Civil Engineering

About Civil Engineering

Civil engineers design and construct the world’s infrastructure: buildings and bridges; tunnels, dams, and levees; harbors and canals; water-supply and waste-disposal systems; airports, highways, and railroads; pipelines and power lines.

As a Civil Engineering undergraduate student you have many opportunities to plan your curriculum and even more opportunities to build your future in civil engineering!

You can explore the nine areas of study within civil engineering along with selecting the courses to design your own plan of study. You and your advisor can discuss your career goals to tailor a program to meet your goals.

Instructional laboratories in structural behavior, hydraulics, surveying, and civil engineering materials are offered in the sophomore and junior years. Further study includes 30 credits of technical electives allowing students to tailor their studies to their specialty area of choice. Speciality areas include architectural, construction, environmental, geomatics, geotechnical, hydraulics, materials, structures, transportation, and infrastructure system engineering.

Senior design projects consist of real-world applications in theoretical role play. Recent projects have included designing possible layouts for the US-231 bypass that runs around the perimeter of campus to connect its north and south ends. Another project explored adding box seats to our basketball arena by raising the roof to make room. Another project explored a reuse design for the Tippecanoe County Superfund Site Sanitary Landfill.  Students participate in these projects from site exploration, to budget management, to mock designs.

Faculty

https://engineering.purdue.edu/CE/People/Faculty

Contact Information

Lyles School of Civil Engineering
Delon and Elizabeth Hampton Hall of Civil Engineering
550 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051
CE Main Office: (765) 494-2166
CE Main Office Fax: (765) 494-0395

Graduate Information

For Graduate Information please see Civil Engineering Graduate Program Information .

Programs

• Civil Engineering, BSCE

• Architectural Engineering Minor

Courses

• CE 19100 - Civil Engineering Practice I
• CE 20300 - Principles And Practice Of Geomatics
• CE 22200 - Life Cycle Engineering And Management Of Constructed Facilities
• CE 23100 - Engineering Materials I
• CE 27000 - Introductory Structural Mechanics
• CE 29000 - Civil Engineering Seminar
• CE 29100 - Civil Engineering Practice II
• CE 29199 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op I
• CE 29202 - Contemporary Issues In Civil Engineering
• CE 29299 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op II
• CE 29700 - Basic Mechanics I (Statics)
• CE 29800 - Basic Mechanics II Dynamics
• CE 29900 - Civil Engineering Projects
• CE 30300 - Engineering Surveying
• CE 30600 - Analysis Of Survey Observations
• CE 31100 - Architectural Engineering
• CE 32201 - Project Control And Life Cycle Execution Of Constructed Facilities
• CE 33100 - Engineering Materials II
• CE 33300 - Civil Engineering Materials
• CE 34000 - Hydraulics
• CE 34100 - Hydraulics, Hydrology, And Drainage
• CE 34300 - Elementary Hydraulics Laboratory
• CE 34400 - Drainage Design Laboratory
• CE 35000 - Introduction To Environmental And Ecological Engineering
• CE 35200 - Biological Principles Of Environmental Engineering
• CE 35300 - Physico-Chemical Principles Of Environmental Engineering
• CE 35500 - Engineering Environmental Sustainability
• CE 36100 - Transportation Engineering
• CE 37100 - Structural Analysis I
• CE 38199 - Professional Practice Co-Op I
• CE 38299 - Professional Practice Co-Op II
• CE 38300 - Geotechnical Engineering I
• CE 38399 - Professional Practice Co-Op III
• CE 39100 - Civil Engineering Practice III
• CE 39201 - Technical Communication In Civil Engineering
• CE 39399 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op III
• CE 39499 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op IV
• CE 39599 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op V
• CE 39699 - Professional Practice Internship
• CE 39700 - Undergraduate Professional Internship
• CE 39800 - Introduction To Civil Engineering Systems Design
• CE 40300 - Principles Of Photogrammetry And Remote Sensing
• CE 40800 - Geographic Information Systems In Engineering
• CE 41300 - Building Envelope Design And Thermal Loads
• CE 41400 - Building Mechanical And Electrical System Design
• CE 42400 - Human Resource Management In Construction
• CE 42600 - Construction Cost Control Concepts
• CE 44000 - Urban Hydraulics
• CE 44200 - Introduction To Hydrology
• CE 44300 - Introductory Environmental Fluid Mechanics
• CE 45600 - Wastewater Treatment Processes
• CE 45700 - Air Pollution Control And Design
• CE 46100 - Roadway And Pavement Design
• CE 46300 - Highway Transportation Characteristics
• CE 47000 - Structural Steel Design
• CE 47300 - Reinforced Concrete Design
• CE 47400 - Structural Analysis II
• CE 47900 - Design Of Building Components And Systems
• CE 48300 - Geotechnical Engineering II
• CE 49100 - Civil Engineering Practice IV
• CE 49200 - Civil Engineering Practice V
• CE 49700 - Civil Engineering Projects
• CE 49800 - Civil Engineering Design Project
• CE 49900 - Research In Civil Engineering
• CE 59601 - Entrepreneurship And Business Strategy In Engineering

• LS 30000 - Land Survey Systems
• LS 30100 - Property Surveys And Descriptions
• LS 40000 - Summer Geomatics Engineering Design Project
• LS 40100 - Legal Aspects Of Surveying
• LS 40900 - Subdivision Planning And Design
• LS 49700 - Land Surveying Projects