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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. Specialty 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

    BaccalaureateMinor

    Courses

      Civil EngineeringLand Surveying