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Our mission is to provide a broad civil engineering education that is integrated with the liberal arts and emphasizes student-faculty interaction. Civil engineers, like all engineers, are problem-solvers. Lafayette’s civil engineering curriculum prepares students for a variety of situations by emphasizing fundamental principles of engineering, an appreciation of the effect of human factors upon technology, logical thinking, resourcefulness in meeting new conditions, and ethical considerations in the application of science to human problems. Design skills are developed in a series of courses beginning in ES101—Introduction to Engineering in the first semester of the first year followed by CE Design I, CE Design II, and CE Design III in each year of the remaining three years. Design components are found in several of the required courses as well as most departmental technical electives. In addition to a thorough grounding in science and technology, students select about one-fifth of their courses in the liberal arts. Civil engineering majors have the opportunity to complete minors (and some cases majors) in the liberal arts within a four-year period of study. The department offers a broad choice of courses that gives students the opportunity to focus on structural, environmental, geotechnical, transportation, construction, or water resources engineering. The curriculum includes laboratory- based courses in each of these six sub-fields of civil engineering. No matter which area you choose, all civil engineering majors have the chance to work with active, dedicated faculty members who are well-respected in their areas of teaching and research. Juniors and seniors may do independent research and qualified seniors may |
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work on an honors thesis with the guidance of a department professor. Students often publish their research results in scholarly journals or present their findings at professional meetings. Outstanding civil engineering students are honored for their academic achievement by election to Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. All graduates of the program receive the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. The civil engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012; (410) 347-7700. |
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Excellent FacilitiesLafayette’s 90,000-square-foot engineering complex, known as Acopian Engineering Center, includes innovative student learning centers, laboratories designed specifically for collaborative student/ faculty research, and high-tech classrooms equipped with the latest instructional technology. The student learning centers, laboratories, and faculty offices are grouped together to facilitate interaction among students and faculty. Civil and environmental engineering laboratories include equipment for materials testing, fluid mechanics, soil mechanics, surveying, environmental engineering, geographic information system, and a computer laboratory. The department has an advanced hydrology system, earth resistivity testing device, laminar flow table, rainfall hydrograph unit, sedimentation studies unit, groundwater flow unit, and a fluid properties and hydrostatics bench. Other equipment includes a 55,000-pound-capacity digitally controlled servohydraulic dynamic testing machine, stream monitoring gauges, a machine that conducts compression and tension tests of small materials such as guitar strings and plastic pieces, nondestructive test equipment for measuring structural condition, environmental site assessment equipment, a tilting flume, and computerized data acquisition equipment. After GraduationIn the Class of 2006, 76 percent of the civil engineering graduates accepted employment and 24 percent enrolled in graduate programs. In the last three years, students have pursued graduate work in civil, structural, or environmental engineering, and engineering or construction management at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, University of California at Berkeley, Colorado State, MIT, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Clemson, Tufts, University of Massachusetts, Michigan Technological University, University of Washington, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Students were also studying architecture and historic preservation at the University of Pennsylvania, and biomedical engineering at Drexel University. Graduates in the last three years have accepted engineering and management trainee positions at Bohler Engineering, Cintas Corp., Dewberry, Pennoni Associates, Turner Construction, Con Edison, Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, Boswell Engineering, Cherry Weber & Associates, F.X. Browne, Inc., First Capital Engineering, Schoor DePalma Engineers, Environmental Partners Group, and other firms. FacultyDavid Brandes, (Home Page), Associate Professor. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Teaching areas: fluid mechanics, water resources, hydrology, and environmental engineering. Research interests: impacts of urbanization on streamflow, watershed processes, rainfall-runoff modeling, and raptor migration. Sharon A. Jones, (Home Page), Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair of A.B. Engineering.Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, P.E., Oregon, California, and Pennsylvania. Teaching area: engineering and public policy. Research interests: sustainability assessment for industrial facilities, infrastructure projects, and developing countries. Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship and Marquis Award for Distinguished Teaching Arthur D. Kney, (Home Page), Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Lehigh University. Teaching area: water supply and pollution control, and environmental engineering. Research interests: removal of heavy metals through ion exchange. Stephen J. Kurtz, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Rutgers University. Teaching areas: structural design, structural analysis, and engineering mechanics. Research interests: structural repairs and rehabilitation of concrete structures, failure criteria of adhesive-bonded repairs, and fire-safe structural composites. Anne Marie Raich, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Teaching areas: design, structural analysis, soft computing methods, and statics. Research areas: computational tools using genetic algorithms and neural networks to optimize long-span trusses and high-rise buildings, soft computing methods to identify damage in large-scale structural systems, and sensor networks for structures. Mary J. Spry Roth, (Home Page), Simon Cameron Long Professor and Head. Ph.D., University of Maine; P.E., Maine. Teachingareas: soil mechanics, environmental site assessment, and foundation engineering. Research interests: geotechnical engineering, design methods for anchored bulkheads, environmental site assessment and engineering reliability, and hazardous waste site mitigation techniques. Recipient of Fulbright Award, Engineer of the Year for both Lehigh Valley chapter of Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers and Lehigh Valley section of American Society of Civil Engineers, Crawford Award for teaching, Marquis Distinguished Teaching Award. Roger W. Ruggles, Associate Professor and Acting Head. Ph.D., Clarkson University; P.E., Pennsylvania. Teaching areas: fluid mechanics, open channel hydraulics, water resources engineering, and surveying. Research interests: application of geographical information system technology to civil engineering, and cold regions engineering. Recipient of Fulbright Award and Engineer of the Year Award from the Lehigh Valley section of the American Society of Engineers. Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University. Teaching areas: transportation engineering and infrastructure management. Research interests: civil infrastructure systems management and modeling, transportation systems analysis, and transportation safety. Muhannad T. Suleiman, Assistant Professor. Ph.D, . Teaching areas: Soil Mechanics, Foundation Design, Retaining Walls and Earthen Dams. Research interests: Foundation Engineering, Soil-Structure Interaction, Underground Structures, Pervious Pavements, and In-situ Testing. David A. Veshosky, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Ph.D., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: engineering economics and engineering management. Research interests: management of technology, life cycle economics, sustainable buildings, and project management. Recipient of Marquis Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Roger W. Ruggles For general information: |
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Bailey Simone '08 studied wetland hydrology and vegetation in Uganda last summer through EXCEL research with Roger Ruggles, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.
