<p>I am thinking of majoring in CEE next year since it basically deals with structures and environmental stuff. Does anyone know which universities have the best programs and what the course of study actually entails so I would know what I'm actually going into. Thanks.</p>
<p>Top 10 Civil:
1. Illinois
2. Berkeley
3. Texas
4. Georgia Tech
5. MIT
6. Purdue
7. Stanford
8. Michigan
9. Cornell, Texas A&M</p>
<p>Top 10 Environmental:
1. Stanford
2. MIT
3. Michigan
4. Illinois
5. Berkeley
6. Johns Hopkins
7. Georgia Tech, Texas
9. Caltech
10. Northwestern</p>
<p>WHOOO!! Go Illinois!! Highest overall ranking for those 2.</p>
<p>I can tell you what civil and environmental entails, since civil was my undergrad major...</p>
<p>For both, you're going to go through the usual engineering core requirements of physics, chemistry, and math.</p>
<p>In civil, you'll learn some structural principals and some engineering mechanics, then you'll have a few design courses in steel and concrete design. You'll learn about strength of materials and material properties, fluid mechanics, some thermodynamics, geotechnical engineering (soil dynamics), some environmental engineering courses, and perhaps a couple of specialization courses.</p>
<p>In environmental, you'll take a basic environmental engineering course, you'll take some water chemistry and general environmental chemistry courses, some environmental remediation courses, air chemistry, fluid mechanics, and perhaps a couple of specialization courses.</p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>"Environmental engineering" is often a code name for "waste and sewage transport and management"</p>
<p>wow! i thought CEE was really cool. i'm really interested in bridges and other structures.</p>
<p>...in fact, historically, environmental engineers were often called "sanitary engineers". Fortunately, they changed the name. ;)</p>
<p>thanks, aibarr for your previous post. but i thought C & E were always fused together.</p>
<p>Hi! DOes anyone know if there's a program that combines CEE with architecture? (Hi Jrock), more specifically "green design", "green arch", or "sustainble design"?</p>
<p>Check out Penn State's architectural engineering program. It seems reasonably interesting.</p>
<p>Cal, Illinois and Texas are generally considered the best in Civil Engineering. They are followed by MIT, Michigan and Stanford. </p>
<p>Stanford is generally considered the best in Environmental Engineering, closely followed by Cal, Illinois, MIT and Michigan.</p>
<p>Cornell, Georgia Tech and and Northwestern are also awesome. </p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, Penn State, Purdue, Rice and Wisconsin-Madison are worth looking into.</p>
<p>So, to sum things up:</p>
<p>GROUP I
University of California-Berkeley
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Texas-Austin</p>
<p>GROUP II
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>GROUP III
Cornell University
Georgia Tech
Northwestern University</p>
<p>GROUP IV
Carnegie Mellon University
Johns Hopkins
Pennsylvania State University (University Park)
Purdue University-West Lafayette
Rice University
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>Other good programs:
University of California-Davis
University of Florida</p>
<p>Um.... Alexandre, never thought I'd disagree with you on recommending Rice, but here we go. ;)</p>
<p>If you're 100% sure that you want to go into civil engineering, Rice is probably not where you want to go. They're in the midst of a major transition, the department is in flux, and right now, things aren't what they should be. There are only three remaining full-time professors in civil engineering. If you're hoping for hydrological research, Phil Bedient is The Guy to study with, and he's at Rice.</p>
<p>The professors they <em>do</em> have are excellent, and you'll have small classes, which is a definite plus, and the fact that the engineering department is quite strong also holds up the caliber of education you'd get (heck, 75% of this year's civ eng graduates are going to Berkeley next year... I'm at UIUC, we've got another of last year's 12 at UIUC, another at Berkeley, and another at MIT... we didn't do so badly) so , but if you're specifically planning on majoring in civil engineering and want the bredth of course selection... or heck, even <em>any</em> course selection... then Rice probably isn't the place you'd go for civil engineering.</p>
<p>OK, Alex! That's the one and only time! ;)</p>
<p>do civil engineers complete the SEE to become licensed? Do architectural engineers also take the SEE? What about environmental engineers?</p>
<p>sorry, can a construction science grad or arch. eng. grad take the Exam for civil or structural engineering?</p>
<p>sorry, I have finally found the site. Thank you to anyone who tried to answer.</p>