Department of

Civil and Environmental Engineering


Welcome to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering!

We are pleased to offer B.S., M.Eng., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees with emphasis in the following technical areas: Civil Systems; Construction; Environmental & Water Resources; Geo-engineering & Pavements; Materials; Structures; and Transportation.

Research Snapshot

Highlights

Gordon Warn

Assistant Professor Swagata Banerjee joins the structural engineering faculty

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News & Events

2009 Ph.D. Dissertation Award

Dr. Katie van Werkhoven, has been selected as the first place recipient of the US Universities Council for Water Resources (UCOWR) 2009 Ph.D. Dissertation Award in the field of Natural Science and Engineering. Katie graduated from Penn State with a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in August 2008 with a dissertation titled "Evaluating model behavior for hydrologic forecasting in gauged and ungauged watersheds".

 

First place at the Graduate Exhibition

Adam Ward, Ph.D. candidate won 1st place in the Engineering category at the Penn State 2009 Graduate Exhibition. His poster was titled "Characterization of Hyporheic Solute Transport During Tracer Tests using Electrical Geophysics".

 

Jack Matson and team of students to present at NASA sponsored 2009 RASC-AL Forum

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5K run/walk honoring alum, Virginia Tech victim set for April 16

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Cieslak named 2009 World-Class Alumni Award winner

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Thorsten Wagener named an Associate Editor of the Hydrological Sciences Journal

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John Regan selected for Fulbright grant

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Patrick Reed selected for Outstanding Achievement Award

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