CIVIL ENGINEERING

The Civil Engineering program is designed to provide a balance of traditional civil engineering subjects with courses exploring innovative technologies currently evoloving into specializations with significant professional activities. Technical electives make it possible either to concentrate study in traditional areas or to augment course work with emerging technologies. 

The group of required coursed provides depth of knowledge and an analytical perspective that sets the specialized technical electives in context.  The environmental engineering option provides the background to apply advanced techniques to environmental problems, an important area of professional activity for civil engineers.

The flexibility of the curriculum allows students to design a program of study tailored to individual career goals and to the demands of the ever-changing marketplace. Students entering the program are normally expected to have a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. However, in certain cases students with undergraduate backgrounds in related engineering or science disciplines may qualify for admission and will be considered on an individual basis.

*Choose one of the three Engineering Mathematics courses with the approval of the student's advisor.

Group I
ENGR 631  Advanced Structural Steel Design
ENGR 632  Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design
ENGR 633  Structural Mechanics
ENGR 634  Structural Dynamics

Group II
ENGR 602  Process Dynamics in Environmental Systems
ENGR 604  Environmental Law for Engineers
ENGR 637  Environmental Planning & Assessment

-Students majoring in civil engineering who also wish to complete the environmental engineering option may do so by selecting the Group II courses (ENGR 602, 604, and 637) and at least one of their technical electives from among ENGR 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 610, or 622

-Students majoring in civil engineering who also wish to earn the Land Development Certificate may do so by selecting their technical electives from ENGR 600, 601, and two electives that are also offered in the certificate program.

Any Engineering Mathematics, Group I, or Group II course not previously taken.

**A maximum of two technical electives may be selected from among these courses.

Widener University
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Chester, PA 19013
fax: 610-499-4059

Tamara L. Ferguson,
Secretary
Kirkbride Hall, Room 101
tel: 610-499-4198
tlferguson@widener.edu