Department of Civil Engineering

Why Choose Civil Engineering at Valparaiso University?

  • An exclusively undergraduate engineering program featuring small size classes taught by full-time faculty whose primary interest is your engineering education.

  • Enriches and emphasizes the growth of human experience in a residential setting.

  • Cultivates and emphasizes intellectual curiosity.

  • Provides flexibility in pursuing minors in Business Administration as well as the Arts and Sciences.

  • Empowers students to achieve high moral, ethical, and social values that are central to the mission of Valparaiso University.

  • Offers opportunities to spend one semester studying abroad (China, England, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Mexico, Namibia, and Spain).

  • Develops graduates who will be effective members of engineering teams, managers of engineering projects, and serve as leaders in the civil engineering discipline and within the broader community of church and society.

  • Is a comprehensive civil engineering program covering broad areas of study including: Environmental, Fluid Mechanics, Geotechnical, Hydrology, Material Testing, Surveying, Structural Analysis and Design, Transportation, and Comprehensive Design Experience.

  • Utilizes extensive computational and five laboratory facilities to enhance classroom instruction. Laboratories provide numerous opportunities for "hands-on" experience with engineering testing equipment.

  • Projects and small laboratory group setting fosters teamwork and development of interpersonal abilities.

  • Develops excellent communication skills.

  • Emphasizes comprehensive team design experiences.

  • Provides opportunities for participation in undergraduate research.

  • Program fully accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).

  • Sponsors an ABET accredited Cooperative Education program with employment opportunities throughout the United States.

  • Offers numerous opportunities for summer internships.

 

 

 

College of Engineering

in the News

Green design explored in talk

April 25, 2008

Two experts in the design of environmentally-friendly buildings and business activities will discuss the benefits of “green” engineering during an April 30 talk at Valparaiso University.  Valparaiso alumnus John Abrecht, senior architect and director of sustainable design at Knight Engineering & Architecture, and Tim Carey, a chemical engineer at Quaker Oats, will present “Sustainable Design Engineering.”

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Engineering students to demonstrate projects

April 23, 2008

From a device that could help calm autistic children to a recliner retrofitted with a beverage delivery system, Valparaiso University engineering students will show off their design and building skills during the College of Engineering 's 10th annual Design Expo on May 3.

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Student wins national defense fellowship

April 17, 2008

Valparaiso University engineering student Josh Wood of Reynolds, Ill., has won a highly competitive graduate fellowship from the Department of Defense to pursue research that could have important implications for national defense.


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Professor honored for work in engineering education

April 11, 2008

A Valparaiso University engineering professor who has won national recognition for his scholarship on ethics and emerging technology was honored by the American Society of Engineering Education's Illinois/Indiana Section earlier this month.

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