Civil and Environmental Engineering

Overview

Environmental Processes is concerned with the protection and management of the quality of the environment for the benefit of society. The Civil and Environmental Engineering program from Cornell University, emphasize biological, chemical, and physical phenomena and engineering principles; laboratory and computational skills; and their application to the analysis of relevant problems.

Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology involves the study of fluid mechanics of the environment and the associated application to hydraulics, hydrology, coastal oceanography, and meteorology as related to the wet earth and atmosphere.

Learning Outcomes

• Make an original and substantial contribution to the discipline

• Think originally and independently to develop concepts and methodologies

• Identify new research opportunities within one’s field 

• Demonstrate advanced research skills

• Synthesize existing knowledge, identifying and accessing appropriate resources and other sources of relevant information and critically analyzing and evaluating one’s own findings and those of others

• Master application of existing research methodologies, techniques, and technical skills

• Communicate in a style appropriate to the discipline 

• Demonstrate commitment to advancing the values of scholarship

• Keep abreast of current advances within one’s field and related areas

• Show commitment to personal professional development through engagement in professional societies, publication, and other knowledge transfer modes

• Show a commitment to creating an environment that supports learning—through teaching, collaborative inquiry, mentoring, or demonstration

• Demonstrate professional skills

• Advance ethical standards in the discipline

• Listen, give, and receive feedback effectively