Undergraduate Catalog 2008-2009

The civil engineering B.S. degree is accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) and prepares students for graduate study and/or professional practice.

Acceptance Criteria

Please see the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences entry in the Undergraduate Catalog, http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/academicprograms/eas.shtml.

Acceptance Information

Please see the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences entry in the Undergraduate Catalog, http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/academicprograms/eas.shtml.

Degree Requirements

Please see Degrees and Policies.

The BS curriculum includes math, science, and basic engineering courses in the freshman and sophomore years, required civil engineering courses in the junior and senior years, and technical elective courses in the senior year. Laboratories in civil engineering are included in two lab classes in the junior year. Students have considerable flexibility in the selection of technical elective courses, allowing them to specialize in one of the civil engineering sub-disciplines. Also available to interested students are several work-experience courses (internship, engineering co-op).

The typical class size for:

Freshman/introductory courses is: 100+
Sophomore/intermediate courses is: 50-100
Upper level required courses is: 35-60
Upper level electives is: 15-35

In the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, what do teaching assistants (TAs) do?

TAs hold office hours to answer students' questions about homework and exam preparation, grade homework (exams are usually graded by instructors), and manage lab assignments.

For course descriptions, please see Courses.

We have 25 full-time faculty (all with Ph.D. degrees) and approximately 10 adjunct faculty. The faculty is actively engaged in teaching, research, and service and has won many honors and awards (see www.csee.buffalo.edu/about_honors.shtml) including:

• Three SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching
• Four National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator awards
• One Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards/Career Awards
• One SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity
• One SUNY Distinguished Professor

See a list of our Undergraduate Faculty.

Internships/Co-ops

Internships and co-ops are available as technical electives in the junior and senior years through the Engineering Career Institute. Please see http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/academicprograms/eas.shtml for more information.

Our undergraduate students are engaged in many campus-wide activities and organizations. These, as well as other nationwide student organizations specific to engineering, include the following:

• Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA)
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)
• Chi Epsilon (Civil Engineering Honor Society)
• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
• Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW)


• National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
• Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)
• UB Environmental Engineering and Science Club (UBEESC)
• Water Environment Federation (WEF)

See the UB Student Association.