Specialties within the Civil Engineering curriculum include:

• Structural engineering — Planning, design, and operation of buildings, bridges, and special purpose structures such as towers, cranes, stadiums, industrial plants, and construction materials.
• Transportation engineering — Planning, design, and operation of highways, airports, seaports, mass transit systems, traffic control systems, and material transport systems.
• Geotechnical engineering — Design and planning of foundations, dams, tunnels, roadbeds, and other facilities where earth and rock are engineering materials.
• Water resources & environmental engineering — Planning, design, and management of projects for water supply, wastewater treatment, flood control, urban drainage, pollution control, ground and surface water quality management, and solid and hazardous waste disposal.