• Successfully Practice Civil Engineering in Industry and/or Government;
• Are Competent Enough to Pass the FE Exam;
• Are able to Pursue Graduate Degrees; and
• Recognize the Need for Scholarship, Leadership and Service to Society.

• First Graduate: December, 1980
• Number of Graduates: 199
• Number of Students: 71
• Number of Faculty: 5
• Accreditation: October 1999, by ABET
• (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology)

MAJOR AREAS

• Structural Analysis and Design
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Environmental Engineering and Water Resources
• Transportation Engineering

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Structural Analysis and Design
• Environmental Engineering
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Transportation Planning and Design

• Hypersonic/Supersonic Low Density Flow
• Rarefied Gas Dynamics (Burnett Eqs)
• Direct Simulation of Monte Carlo (DSMC)
• Chemical Reaction and Non-equilibrium Flow
• Foundary Layer Flow
• Separation Flow
• Micro-gravity and MEMS

• Heat Conduction and Convection
• Phase Change/ Moving Boundary
• Thermal Radiation
• Ablation

• Thermal-Structural Interaction of Composite Structures
• Dynamics and Control of Flexible Space Structures
• Finite Element Methods
• Laminated Composites
• Soil-Structure (Ground-Lining) Interaction

• Groundwater Contamination Simulation
• Spatial Database of Contaminants in Biota, Water and Soil
• Multiphase Transport Phenomena in Soil
• Parameter Estimation by Inverse Solution

• Soil Stabilization
• Subgrade Stress Prediction of Soil
• Survey/Monitor of Subsidence of Coal Mining Area

• Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems
• Highway Pavement Maintenance Management
• Geometric Design of Highways and Railroads
• GIS Applications in Transportation
• Optimization Applications in Transportation
• CAD Applications in Transportation

• Concrete Lab
• Environmental/Soils Lab
• Fluids/Hydraulics Lab
• Micro-Computer/CAD Lab
• Structures Lab
• Surveying Lab
• Transportation Lab

• "Bear Creek Road Study", ORNL, 7/00 – 12/00 ($104,564)
• "Hypersonic Non-equilibrium Flows with Low Reynolds Effect", NASA/MSFC, 1999-2002 ($199,057)
• "An Unconventional Three-dimensional Computation of Transitional Aerodynamics for RLV", NASA/MSFC, 1997-1999 ($338,495)

• "A Three-Dimensional Burnett Solver for Hypersonic Flows in High Altitudes", ARO, 1996-1999 ($346,451)
• "Database Enhancement and Data Record Addition Project", Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, 1996-1997 ($45,999)
• "Modeling Thermal-Structural Interaction of Composite including Temperature Dependent Material Properties", Wright-Patterson AFB, 1993-1997, ($275,000)