Civil Engineering Ph.D.

The Civil Engineering PhD degree combines coursework and independent research in a comprehensive program for those wishing to attain mastery of their field. Students have the opportunity to focus on one of the following areas of engineering: environmental (e.g., pollutant fate and transport, process modeling, soil and groundwater remediation, water and wastewater treatment), geomechanics (e.g., fracture and localization, groundwater flow, stability and liquefaction, wave and shock propagation), structural (e.g., computational and structural mechanics, earthquake engineering, infrastructure performance and durability, new systems and materials), transportation (e.g., intelligent transportation systems, pavement design and materials, transportation economics, traffic safety), or water resources, (e.g., earthscape processes, environmental and biological systems, hydrologic and climate dynamics, hydrodynamics and turbulence).