Chair's Message
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Society faces many challenges on how to create, modernize and maintain infrastructure to ensure it is functional and resilient, yet flexible to meet changing needs. Meeting these challenges is the very definition of sustainable infrastructure engineering. As a current, prospective or former student, or simply a visitor, while navigating through our website you will see how our faculty and staff are creating an active learning environment integrated with world-class research to address societies greatest challenges related to sustainable infrastructure engineering of the built environment, for example transportation and water systems, through advancements in structural, geotechnical, materials, life cycle assessment, environmental (air, water, soil), and biological processes.
Our philosophy is to engage students and encourage them to discover new approaches of designing and constructing the built environment around us all in a sustainable way. In addition to offering a fully accredited undergraduate program, we offer students opportunities to specialize in construction or environmental engineering. Our graduate programs are world class and continuously looking forward. In 2005, a graduate certificate program in Sustainable Technology was initiated and we are in the process of initiating an interdisciplinary graduate program in Earth Systems Engineering and Management. We are also one of the lead institutions in the NSF- and EPA- funded Center for Sustainable Engineering. Through Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiatives (FURI) and sponsored research our faculty actively involve students across a wide range of research opportunities. Many of these activities occur within the state-of-the-art facilities, among which include the following resources:
- the EPA-funded National Center for Excellence on SMART (Sustainable Materials and Renewable Technology) Innovations;
- the Advanced Asphalt Technology Laboratory (perhaps the finest asphalt pavement laboratory in the country);
- the Center for Environmental Biotechnology in the Biodesign Institute;
- the ASU Water Quality Center; and
- the EM Hoque Geotechnical Laboratory.
The initiatives and resources described above are allowing us to maintain the momentum that has propelled the ASU Civil and Environmental Engineering Department into the upper echelon of programs at US universities. This is an exciting time for Civil and Environmental Engineering and we welcome you to our department and invite you to come talk with us in person.
Sincerely
Professor and Chair