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Civil Engineering

ENGINEER PROGRESS IN OUR WORLD
Your purpose-driven mindset is a perfect fit for Norwich—study how to improve communities and enhance lives through the study of civil engineering. Our faculty will take you on a challenging and rewarding journey to learn how to plan, design, build, and maintain systems we rely on in both the built and in the natural world—from dams, tunnels, skyscrapers, and suspension bridges to airports, the interstate highway system, water delivery and purification systems, and irrigation systems. 

BECOME PART OF OUR HISTORY TO DESIGN THE FUTURE

If you are considering Norwich University’s Civil Engineering program, you will be preparing your future at the first private school in the United States to teach civil engineering—a 200-year legacy of fostering creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and awareness of the environmental impact of this work.

Upon graduation, employers will appreciate your depth of understanding of various engineering challenges: altering natural geography to meet human needs, the importance of public health and safety, or how to strengthen and evolve infrastructure to prepare for future challenges. 

LIFE AS A NORWICH CIVIL ENGINEER STUDENT 

Our faculty trains you to meet challenges with a logical and consistent progression. You learn the principles of the design process in the first courses and continually re-emphasize them in later coursework. During your first two years, you will master the fundamental mathematical and scientific principles essential for engineering analysis and design. The final two years will ground your understanding of five major civil engineering sub-disciplines: water resources, structural, environmental, geotechnical, and construction. 

YOUR EXPERIENTIAL LABORATORY

Optimize your time spent in the laboratory sections to reinforce lecture topics and explore your potential through investigation and analysis.  
Your design experience culminates in your senior year as you explore your potential with a major design project.  

And take the opportunity to build your portfolio through other major-related activities and organizations, including student chapters of:

  • American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi
  • Society of American Military Engineers

LEARN TO BE A LEADER

To set yourself apart, consider joining one of the Leadership Academies, developed using our bedrock Leadership Development System with an experiential learning approach for those interested in joining either the private sector or government workforce to serve our country. These academies focus upon pathway opportunities for tuition assistance, fellowships, and internship programs.

GO EVEN FURTHER

While you are finishing your degree consider enrolling in one of our Accelerated Master's Pathways where you can apply your upper-level undergraduate courses and training into graduate credit and finish within 12-18 months after graduation online.

STARTING YOUR CAREER

Whether you choose to work for a private engineering firm, construction firm, government agency, industry, or the military, there will be many areas of opportunity for you. As U.S. infrastructure becomes more fragile and complex, the need for Norwich graduates like you -- innovative problem solvers with engineering expertise -- continues to grow at a rapid pace.

Accreditations - David Crawford School of Engineering

New England Commission of Higher Education

REGIONAL ACCREDITATION

Norwich University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE), known formerly as the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. (NEASC).

Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology

PROGRAM ACCREDITATION

Civil Engineering is accredited by the EAC Accreditation Commission(s) of ABET,  under the General Criteria and the Civil Engineering Program Criteria.

Construction Management is accredited by the ANSAC Accreditation Commission(s) of ABET, under the General Criteria and the Construction Management Program Criteria.

Electrical and Computer Engineering is accredited by the EAC Accreditation Commission(s) of ABET, under the General Criteria and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Program Criteria.

Interdisciplinary Engineering is accredited by the EAC Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria.

Mechanical Engineering is accredited by the EAC Accreditation Commission(s) of ABET, under the General Criteria and the Mechanical Engineering Program Criteria.

Goals, Outcomes & Details

To view additional program details for programs such as course offerings, requirements, and curriculum maps for the civil engineering course offerings and a curriculum map, visit the Norwich University Course Catalog using these links.

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Our Faculty

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R. Danner Friend

Position(s):

  • Professor
  • Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Tara Kulkarni

Tara Kulkarni

Position(s):

  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Provost for Research
  • Chief Research Officer
John E. Patterson

John E. Patterson

Position(s):

  • Associate Professor
  • Program Coordinator, Construction Management
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Karen Supan

Position(s):

  • Associate Professor
  • Director, David Crawford School of Engineering
Moses Tefe

Moses Tefe

Position(s):

  • Associate Professor
  • Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Chair, Construction Management
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Ali Al Bataineh

Position(s):

  • Assistant Professor
  • Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence
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