Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
We are the innovators, designers, builders, and operators of the “built environment,” the infrastructure that serves much of our basic needs and contributes to a high standard of living as well as society's economic and social engine for change. We are the stewards of the natural environment and its resources. With an ever-increasing global population that continues to shift to urban areas, the need for civil engineers as leaders and protectors of the built and natural world has never been greater.
As a highly productive and innovative department, we embrace these needs. We are the only department in the State University of New York (SUNY) system that offers undergraduate and graduate education in civil or environmental engineering. We offer separate Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited B.S. degrees in civil or environmental engineering. In addition, we offer graduate programs of study and research leading tomaster of engineering (M.Eng.), master of science (M.S.), and doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees. We have 26 full-time faculty, nearly 400 undergraduates, and 77 full-time and 17 part-time graduate students.
We are world leaders in earthquake engineering; our environmental program is developing exciting new expertise in ecosystem restoration; and we recently increased our Department's breadth by adding transportation systems engineering. For the past five years, our annual departmental research expenditures have been in excess of $10 million.
Specialty areas of undergraduate and graduate study include:
Computational engineering mechanics (graduate only) Construction engineering (undergraduate only) Environmental and hydrosystems engineering Geomechanics and geotechnical engineering Structural and earthquake engineering Transportation systems engineering
Research Centers
We house three organized research centers:
The Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) - a national center for research in and application of advanced and emerging technologies to reduce earthquake damage and losses through improved engineering, pre-earthquake planning, and post-earthquake recovery strategies. The Center for Integrated Waste Management (CIWM), which contains the NYS Center for Hazardous Waste Management (NYSCHWM) - a public-benefit research and development organization dedicated to the discovery of better environmental technologies and waste-management strategies. The Great Lakes Program (GLP) - a center for research, education, and outreach activities related to the Great Lakes ecosystem.
We also house the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory, one of the world's premier laboratories in earthquake engineering research. The laboratory recently underwent a $21  million expansion funded by the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation program of the National Science Foundation and the Construction Fund of the State University of New York. The laboratory is one of the most versatile seismic testing facilities in the United States, featuring online tele-observation and tele-operation capabilities, two movable large-capacity shake tables, strong reaction walls, and large power capacity to conduct high-speed, high-load dynamic testing.
Alumni
We are proud of our alumni, many of whom have been involved with major civil engineering projects. Our Ph.D. graduates have gone on to successful faculty positions at such universities as the University of California-Berkeley, Texas A&M, Cornell, Rice, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Southern Florida, Central Florida, the University of California-Davis, Rutgers, the University of Missouri-Rolla, the University of Maryland, and others. Five of our recent Ph.D. graduates who are in faculty positions have received the prestigious NSF Career Award.
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