Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering (CEIE)

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■ Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

Phone: 703-993-1675
Web: civil.gmu.edu

School: The Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering

Faculty

Professors: Arciszewski, Bronzini (chair), Houck

Associate professors: deMonsabert, Flannery, Venigalla

Assistant professors: Casey, Urgessa

Research professor: Hero

Adjunct professors: Adler, Ali, Bhargava, Binning, Chase, Chipley, Choudhury, Donahue, Doyle, Gagne, Goode, Hartmann, Harrop-Williams, Matusik, McDaniel, Miller, Rodriguez, Suydam, Ward, Zobel

The Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering (CEIE) Department offers a BS and an MS in civil and infrastructure engineering. These degree programs complement the study of civil and environmental engineering with advances in information technology (IT), and they focus on the physical and organizational infrastructure essential to the functioning of an urban society. The bachelor’s program in civil and infrastructure engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, Maryland 21202-4012; 410-347-7700. Students interested in pursuing doctoral education in civil and infrastructure engineering are encouraged to read the sections on the interdisciplinary PhD in information technology and PhD study in civil and infrastructure engineering.

Civil and infrastructure engineering is the study of land, transportation, water, environmental, structural, energy, and telecommunications systems from a civil engineering perspective and within a complex technological, social, political, economic, and environmental context. The focus is on how these systems are successfully conceived, developed, designed, built, operated, maintained, and renewed in the built environment such as the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

An urban society thrives and prospers when adequate, appropriate, reliable, robust, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure systems are provided. The investment in existing infrastructure and other urban systems in the United States is enormous. The investment required to maintain, operate, renew, and manage the evolution of these infrastructure systems in the future is even greater. The need for highly educated professionals to confront and solve these continuing vital problems is pressing. Examples of infrastructure systems include water supply and distribution; streets, roads, and highways; wastewater management; transit; storm water management; public utilities; energy supply and distribution; telecommunications; buildings, facilities, and structures; and solid waste management.