This program is rich with interesting students and engaged professors. You’ll begin taking civil engineering courses during your first year, and you’ll have the flexibility to tailor the curriculum to your interests. You’ll have the opportunity participate in a wide array of student organizations and activities. The civil engineering program allows for study abroad, complementary minors and dual majors, a track for graduating in fewer than four years, an accelerated master’s degree program and close ties to industry that result in internship and employment opportunities.

More than half of the major's total credits and nearly all of the senior-level courses are elected by the student. Of these, there are Discovery Program electives required by the University and other electives required by the department in order to satisfy departmental objectives and accreditation requirements. The Discovery Program is described in University Academic Requirements. Courses required by the BSCIVE program fulfill Discovery requirements in Inquiry and Environment, Technology, and Society, Writing Skills, Quantitative Reasoning, Physical Sciences and Discovery Lab and Capstone. To graduate with a bachelor of science in civil engineering, a student must achieve the following: 129 or more credits, credit for the civil engineering program's major and elective courses, satisfaction of the University's Discovery Program requirements, satisfaction of the University's writing-intensive course requirements, a cumulative grade-point average of 2.0 or better for all courses, and a cumulative grade-point average of 2.0 or better in all CEE courses.