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Our Mission, Vision, Goals & Objectives

Mission Statement

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering provides an educational, professional, and intellectual experience that enables a diverse body of students, alumni, faculty, and staff to contribute to society through teaching, research, practice and service.

Vision Statement

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will develop internationally prominent educational and research programs that will benefit all of our constituencies and, in doing so, we will become an international Department of Choice.

Guiding Principles

We will continually work to engage our students, faculty and staff in the integration, creation and dissemination of knowledge through teamwork, personalized instruction, research and outreach. We will value diversity. We will measure our success by the success of our graduates and by the growth in the Department's presitge.

Undergraduate Educational Goals & Objectives:

Civil Engineering is a broad field encompassing many specialties. Michigan Tech civil engineering baccalaureate graduates are educated to begin professional careers that apply a broad base of engineering, science and communication skills to a variety of civil engineering endeavors and to develop advanced competence in a few specialties. As such, we expect that during the first several years following graduation, our graduates will:

1. Function as productive members of the profession and society with an understanding of the social, ethical, environmental, economic and global ramifications of their work as demonstrated by some of the following:

  • Membership in professional organizations
  • Community service
  • Evidence of commitment to life-long learning

2. Successfully apply their knowledge and skills to civil engineering practice or to advanced education as demonstrated by some of the following:

  • Entry level professional employment or full-time graduate school;
  • Conception, planning, design, management, construction or operation of civil engineering projects;
  • Successful advancement in position classification;
  • Progress toward professional licensure;
  • Earning graduate degrees and/or other professional certificates;

Environmental Engineering is a broad field encompassing many specialties. Michigan Tech environmental engineering baccalaureate graduates are educated to begin professional careers that apply a broad base of engineering, science and communication skills to a variety of environmental engineering endeavors and to develop advanced competence in a few specialties. As such, we expect that during the first several years following graduation, our graduates will:

1. Function as productive members of the profession and society with an understanding of the social, ethical, environmental, economic and global ramifications of their work as demonstrated by some of the following:

  • Membership in professional organizations
  • Community service
  • Evidence of commitment to life-long learning

2. Successfully apply their knowledge and skills to environmental engineering practice or to advanced education as demonstrated by some of the following:

  • Entry level professional employment or full-time graduate school;
  • Planning, conception, design, management, construction or operation of environmental engineering projects;
  • Successful advancement in position classification;
  • Progress toward professional licensure;
  • Earning graduate degrees and/or other professional certificates;


Our students have chosen Michigan Tech over other schools - many times because of our reputation for providing a strong hands - on program.

Recruiters choose our graduates for the same reason - they know a civil or environmental engineer from Tech has a strong foundation and the skills to remain a lifelong learner.


The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Michigan Tech includes 25 faculty, 26 professional staff, over 100 full-time graduate students (35% are in doctoral programs), and over 500 undergraduate students. Research funding exceeds $3 million per year. The graduate degrees Masters of Engineering (M.Eng.), Masters of Science (M.S.), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and the undergraduate baccalaureate (B.S.) degree are offered in both Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering.

The Department is housed in the Dow Environmental Science and Engineering Building and Dillman Hall. U.S. News & World Report has ranked Michigan Tech's Environmental Engineering program as one of the nation's top programs. In addition, recent graduation figures show that our Department ranks in the top 3 nationally in the number of undergraduate degrees awarded in Environmental Engineering and in the top 15 in undergraduate degrees awarded in Civil Engineering.

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College of Engineering
Michigan Technological University
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
870 Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, Michigan, 49931 - 1295, USA
Department Phone: 1-906-487-2520
Department Fax: 1-906-487-2943
Department E-mail: cee@mtu.edu

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November 4, 2009

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