Office

Office: Engineering and Technology A212
Phone: (323) 343-4450
Email: ce.ecst@calstatela.edu
Department Website: Department of Civil Engineering

Department Chair

Chair: Wing Shun (Welson) Kwan
Email: wkwan4@calstatela.edu
Phone: (323) 343-4464

The Faculty

Professors: Hassan Hashemian, Arezoo Khodayari, Gustavo B. Menezes, Tona Rodriguez-Nikl, Rupa P. Purasinghe, Mark R. Tufenkjian, Sonya Lopez
Associate Professor:  Wing Shun (Welson) Kwan (Interim Chair), Mehran Mazari, Michael Ibrahim, Maryam Nazari
Assistant Professors:  Corin L. Bowen, Joseph Lucey
Emeriti: Anjan K. Bhaumik, Raymond I. Jeng, Young C. Kim, Narendra B. Taly, Wen L. Wang

Overview

Civil Engineering is the broadest of the engineering disciplines, extending across many technical specialties, specialties that are not independent but interact with each other. Civil engineers plan, design, and supervise the construction of facilities that vary widely in nature, size and scope: space satellites and launching facilities, offshore structures, bridges, buildings, tunnels, highways, transit systems, dams, airports, irrigation projects, treatment and distribution facilities for water and collection and treatment facilities for wastewater.

Accreditation

The department offers B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering. The BS degree in Civil Engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, https://www.abet.org, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Civil and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.

Programs

• Civil Engineering, B.S.

• Minor in Construction and Engineering Management
• Minor in Urban Sustainability

• Civil Engineering, Blended B.S./M.S.

• Civil Engineering, M.S.

Courses

• CE 5500 - Civil Engineering Graduate Seminar
• CE 5540 - Advanced Topics in Civil Engineering
• CE 5550 - Reinforced Concrete Design with FRP Reinforcement
• CE 5560 - Construction Legal Aspects and Risk Management
• CE 5570 - BIM and Advanced Technologies in Construction
• CE 5600 - Structural Mechanics III
• CE 5610 - Advanced Steel Design
• CE 5620 - Prestressed Concrete Design
• CE 5640 - Finite Element Method in Structural Analysis
• CE 5650 - Dynamics of Structures
• CE 5660 - Geotechnical Engineering II
• CE 5670 - Geotechnical Engineering Design II
• CE 5690 - Earth Structures
• CE 5700 - Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
• CE 5710 - Highway Design
• CE 5720 - Plates and Shells
• CE 5740 - Traffic Flow Analysis
• CE 5750 - Urban Transportation Planning
• CE 5770 - Bridge Engineering
• CE 5790 - Environmental Mass Transfer
• CE 5800 - Advanced Environmental Modeling
• CE 5810 - Modeling Techniques in Hydraulic Engineering
• CE 5820 - Statistical Hydrology
• CE 5830 - Hydrology II
• CE 5850 - Environmental Transport
• CE 5860 - Open Channel Hydraulics
• CE 5870 - Hydraulics II
• CE 5880 - Hydraulic Structures
• CE 5890 - Coastal Engineering
• CE 5960 - Comprehensive Examination
• CE 5970 - Graduate Research
• CE 5980 - Graduate Directed Study
• CE 5990 - Thesis

• CE 1540 - Special Topic in Civil Engineering
• CE 1900 - Introduction to Computer Aided Design for Civil Engineers
• CE 2010 - Statics (also listed as ME 2010)
• CE 2020 - Plane Surveying
• CE 2050 - Strength of Materials I (also listed as ME 2050)
• CE 2120 - Matrix Algebra and Statistics for Engineers
• CE 2200 - Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Science
• CE 2800 - Numerical Methods for Engineers I (also listed as ME 2800)
• CE 2840 - Environmental Engineering I
• CE 2900 - Fundamentals of Civil Engineering Design
• CE 3000 - Economics for Engineers (also listed as EE 3000, ME 3000)
• CE 3030 - Fluid Mechanics I (also listed as ME 3030)
• CE 3060 - Communication for Civil Engineers
• CE 3120 - Strength of Materials Laboratory I (also listed as ME 3120)
• CE 3140 - Hydraulics Laboratory I
• CE 3200 - Dynamics for Civil Engineers
• CE 3220 - Statistics and Data Analysis for Engineers
• CE 3520 - Technological Aspects of Urban Environment
• CE 3580 - Environment, Earth Systems and Technology
• CE 3600 - Structural Mechanics I
• CE 3610 - Introduction to Structural Design
• CE 3650 - Fundamentals of Construction Management
• CE 3660 - Geotechnical Engineering I
• CE 3680 - Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory
• CE 3700 - Transportation Engineering
• CE 3720 - Asphaltic Materials Laboratory
• CE 3740 - Civil Engineering Materials
• CE 3800 - Numerical Methods for Engineers II (also listed as ME 3800)
• CE 3810 - Computer Aided Design Laboratory
• CE 3820 - Computer Aided Structural Analysis, Design and Experimentation Laboratory
• CE 3840 - Environmental Engineering II
• CE 3860 - Water Resources Engineering
• CE 3900 - Civil Engineering Design Through Competition
• CE 3980 - Cooperative Education
• CE 4020 - Strength of Materials II
• CE 4140 - Hydraulics Laboratory II
• CE 4540 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering
• CE 4540L - Special Topics in Civil Engineering
• CE 4560 - Construction Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control
• CE 4570 - Construction Cost Estimation & Financial Management
• CE 4600 - Structural Mechanics II
• CE 4610 - Design of Steel Structures
• CE 4620 - Reinforced Concrete Design I
• CE 4630 - Timber and Masonry Design
• CE 4650 - Seismic Design
• CE 4670 - Geotechnical Engineering Design I
• CE 4710 - Highway Engineering
• CE 4720 - Highway and Airport Pavement Design
• CE 4730 - Pavement Design Laboratory
• CE 4740 - Traffic Engineering
• CE 4750 - Advanced Geomatics
• CE 4790 - Groundwater Contamination and Remediation
• CE 4800 - Environmental Modeling
• CE 4810 - Environmental Sustainability and Renewable Energy
• CE 4830 - Hydrology I
• CE 4840 - Environmental Engineering Design
• CE 4870 - Hydraulics I
• CE 4950 - Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam Review
• CE 4960 - Civil Engineering Design Project I
• CE 4970 - Civil Engineering Design Project
• CE 4990 - Undergraduate Directed Study