Our undergraduate civil engineering program is designed to provide the students with the broad educational background essential to civil engineering practice with emphasis in the area of environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, water resources engineering, and structural engineering. Students may choose to specialize in the area of environmental engineering.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Southern Illinois University Carbondale prides itself on preparing students for rewarding and productive professional careers in a variety of civil engineering and related fields. With faculty recognized worldwide for their experiences, discoveries, expertise and teaching, our department continues to make contributions to our world through the education and development of professional engineers as well as through research, innovation, discoveries, technologies and methods that improve the practice and profession of Civil and Environmental Engineering.