A major new trend in Civil and Environmental Engineering is the rapidly increasing need for civil and environmental engineering professionals with computer skills.  These employment opportunities are the result of the recent significant advances in Information Technology and its impact in all areas of civil and environmental engineering.  The new MS and PhD program in CEE allows the students to develop skills in Information Technology while maintaining a strong disciplinary base in either:

 - Civil Engineering
 - Environmental Engineering and Science



The program includes applications in CEE of the following IT topics:

• Numerical methods
• Computational mechanics
• Hardware architecture, computer system architecture, and network concepts
• Software development in engineering
• Computer-aided decision systems
• GIS-GPS, remote sensing
• Data structures and database design
• Optimization and control
• Computation Intelligence, soft computing
• Data mining and knowledge discovery
• Computer graphics, visualization, virtual reality and image reasoning
• Risk assessment, failure analysis, and reliability.