Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts
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Northeastern University - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Overview
Northeastern's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northeastern's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers MS (part- and full-time) and PhD programs in Civil Engineering. As a leader in the field, the department has over 100 years of history and tradition in teaching and research and is anchored by several multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional centers and initiatives, including the Versatile Onboard Traffic Embedded Roaming Sensors center funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This institute works to develop new sensor technologies and health monitoring strategies that provide up-to-date information about the state of roadways and bridges.
At the graduate level, students are provided with opportunities to work at and advance the state-of-the-art in civil engineering while gaining superior knowledge of the field. Northeastern offers significant research opportunities across all fields of civil and environmental engineering, including fields such as construction management, environmental engineering, geotechnical/geoenvironmental engineering, structural engineering, and transportation engineering.
Northeastern's student chapters are vibrant, its faculty is expanding, and its laboratory facilities are growing. The university's location in Boston provides an intellectual community by the sea and home to the Big Dig, a landmark civil engineering achievement. Northeastern is renowned in experiential education; within this context, the university's globally-minded programs are preeminent in creating engineering solutions to better civil infrastructure and environment.