With a civil engineering degree from Wilkes, you can help design, build and maintain infrastructure that society depends upon daily. Develop foundations and structures, public water and sewage systems, stormwater management, and air, solid, water and hazardous waste treatment processes.

项目快照

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主要 在校园 128

Why Study 土木工程 at Wilkes?

You’ll work in small classes and laboratories with dedicated faculty who are experienced civil, environmental, and mechanical engineers with professional engineering licensure, and/or who earned the highest degree in the field.

Benefit from our hands-on approach to learning engineered systems and design. 使用 software commonly used in industry even as you gain a strong background in all sciences and take part in extensive laboratory and field experiences.

Many capstone projects involve engineers and experts from outside Wilkes on projects that have a direct impact in northeast Pennsylvania. Our Industrial Advisory Council, comprising alumni engineers and other professionals from the region, ensures that the Wilkes curriculum answers relevant and real-world industry needs.

What Will You Learn as a 土木工程 主要?

  • Gain a broad foundation in mathematics, chemistry, physics, general engineering and 地球科学.
  • Learn to solve engineering problems and manage projects.
  • Cultivate collaboration skills in group projects and activities with both engineering and science students and with faculty who have diverse technical background and expertise.
  • 使用 the latest software and technologies for system analysis and engineering design.
  • Develop leadership, speaking, writing, organizational and problem-solving skills.
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项目的亮点

四个浓度

Choose a specialty that will equip you to address sustainable and resilience design to minimize risk to infrastructure due to climate change, natural and man-made disasters, and current and future pandemics and other human health threats.

良好的设施

Work in the Cohen Science Center and Mark Engineering Center, two high-performance computing labs, a 3D visualization and printing facility, and the most powerful research computing resource in the area.

找工作的毕业生

Industry partners say Wilkes graduates arrive “job ready” and technically well prepared 成功. Many of our graduates are given the responsibilities to be a project manager very quickly after being hired.

认证

Wilkes is in the process of applying for accreditation in civil engineering from the Engineering 认证 Commission of 教唆 外部网站. Wilkes has long-running 教唆-accredited programs in environmental, mechanical and 电气工程.

State-of-the-Art Facilities

As a civil engineering student at Wilkes, you’ll work in the state-of-the-art Cohen Science Center and the new Mark Engineering Center. 使用 two high-performance computing laboratories that include the latest geographic information system, engineering graphic design, and Bentley Systems engineering software.

New labs include a 3D visualization and printing facility. WARLOC, a new high-performance computer cluster, is the most powerful research computing resource in the area. 未来 soon are a new soil and rock mechanics lab, and new equipment in the hydraulics lab. 

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浓度

60%

of engineering courses are supplemented with hands-on, laboratory experience

100%

of civil engineering students complete a design-focused senior capstone project

职业生涯 & 结果

The median entry-level salary for civil engineers was $64,000, according to the 2020 土木工程 Salary Report. Median pre-tax annual salary in 2019 was $115,000. Nearly nine out of 10 respondents were either very satisfied or satisfied with their 总体工作. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that civil engineering is projected to grow at a rate of 8% between 2020 and 2030.

A degree in civil engineering prepares graduates for designing, planning, and construction of essential infrastructure. 民事 engineers work in government or community public works settings, as well as in the private sector in consulting or construction firms. 

受欢迎的职业

  • 结构工程师

  • 岩土工程师
  • 环境工程师
  • Project and Site Engineer
  • 设计工程师
  • 水利工程师
  • 土木工程师
  • 承包商

最近的雇主

  • 四方集团有限公司.
  • Borton-Lawson
  • Pennoni工程
  • 考恩的同事
  • HDR工程
  • 十字路口组织
  • 华盛顿县,马里兰州

研究生院

  • 利哈伊大学
  • 宾夕法尼亚州立大学
  • 德克萨斯州的一个&M
  • 维拉诺瓦大学
  • University of Central Florida
  • 特拉华大学

I really had the opportunity at Wilkes to make my time here count. 我能够创造 my own path and make my four years matter.

Nia Williams '17 - 环境工程师ing