The following are areas of concentration within Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan:

Construction Engineering and Management

Planning, estimating, scheduling, and managing the construction of engineered facilities using modern construction methods, materials, and equipment. Business and legal principles of construction contracting. Planning, analysis, design, and optimization of field construction operations.  Simulation and visualization of construction processes and products.  Computer applications and information technology in design, construction, operations, and maintenance of constructed facilities.

Environmental Engineering

The principles, design, and methods for implementation of sustainable environmental and earth systems; water resource development, management, conservation, and systems design; engineering of water quality and pollution control processes and systems; treatment, distribution and collection networks and infrastructures for optimal municipal and industrial water use, recovery, and recycle; environmental design for efficient energy and resource utilization and minimization of water and air pollution and solid wastes generation; modeling of the fate and transport of contaminants in environmental media and systems and quantitative assessment of associated human and ecological risks.

Geotechnical Engineering

The evaluation of soil properties and environmental conditions in foundations of earth-supported structures; mass stability in excavations and subsurface construction; use of soil characteristics and properties and soil classification in design and construction of highways, railways, airports, and other surface facilities; behavior of soils subjected to dynamic loading.

Hydraulic and Hydrological Engineering

The application of the fundamental principles of hydraulics and hydrology to the optimum development of surface water and ground-water resources; the study of flood prediction and flood control, flow and contaminant transport in surface and ground waters, transients in pipelines and channels, coastal engineering, and design of structures to interface with the water environment.

Materials and Highway Engineering

The analysis, engineering, and testing of civil engineering materials pertaining to infrastructure renewal and high-performance structures, including the study of infrastructure rehabilitation (including bridge and pavement technology), advanced emerging materials (including cement-based composites, polymers, and ceramics), micromechanics of composite materials, durability of materials, and innovative materials and structures.

Structural Engineering

The theory, analysis, design, and construction of structures such as bridges, buildings, towers, and housing, involving the use of steel, reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, fiber reinforced concrete, advanced FRP composites, and wood; studies of inelastic behavior of materials and structures; studies of dynamic forces and their effects on structures.

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Last edited on 04/11/2008