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Civil & Environmental Engineering at theUniversity of Detroit Mercy
Civil & Environmental
Engineering
Structures
Transportation
Environment
Hydrology
Construction
Soils/Geotech Materials
Site Planning
What do CE’s do?Each area has: Typical Projects Engineering Tasks Specific Skills / Personality
Site Development—Typical Project
Site Development—Engineering
Design so rain water runs away from homes.
Design storm and sanitary sewers to take away rain and waste.
Site Development—Skills
CAD:
Slope calculation
Site Development—Personality
Site developers often work with lots of people. (Home owners, city councils.)
Transportation—Typical Projects
Transportation—Engineering (Roads) Forecasting travel
Planning
Checking Safety
Transportation—Skills
Able to make tables & charts
Write reports
Enjoy simulations
Transportation Personality
Very frequent dealings with public
Construction—Typical Projects
Construction—Engineering
Know what is important in a design.
If something isn’t working, make a decision on what to do.
Construction—Skills
Tracking a schedule
Dealing with questions
Construction—Personality
Decisive Like outdoors Must be an adventurer—stay in one place
for two years, then move. Repeat…
Soils / Geotechnical Engineering—Typical Projects Any construction project
Roads, Buildings, Dams
Geotech—Engineering
Determine if a structure can be held by the soil.
Designing soil retaining systems
Soils / Geotechnical Engineering—Skills Calculating
weight of the soil
Supervise crews
Geotech–Personality
Like a mix of indoor and outdoor work Like manipulating test equipment
Materials-Typical Projects
All construction projects
Materials—Engineering
Understand cement chemistry & structure
Materials—Skills
Proportion materials
Operate test equipment
Environment—Projects
Environment—Engineering
Determine how to clean water or hazardous waste
Environment—Skills
Chemistry
Understand Bio-organisms
Hydraulics & Hydrology
Hydrology—Engineering
Determine if rain will cause flooding in a creek.
Design the water collection system (storm sewer)
Hydrology—Skills
Predict rainfall
Follow route of water flow
Structures
Structures—Engineering
Determine how strong a building needs to be to resist wind, earthquakes, etc.
Structures—Skills
Static and dynamic analysis (Advanced physics)
Understand how and why materials fail, and how to prevent it.
Structures—Personality
Exceptional in math and drafting/visualization
Nose in a book
Or do it all:
Money
Civil & Environmental Engineers earn a little less than other engineers.
Civil & Environmental Engineers are the happiest of all engineers.
Civil & Environmental Engineers are among the happiest of all professions.
Do you want to be happy and wealthy?
My Career in Civil Engineering
My First Engineering Job (coop): City Design
I designed and supervised construction of new utilities.
1st Job after college: Army Corp
I designed $1B Lock and Dam projects, saving Millions of $’s.
Professional work while at UDM
I designed structural systems that improve vehicle safety.
Tall Buildings
I designed a testing method for foundation support piles for tall buildings.
Student Involvement in ResearchWith a team of students, we won $5000 in a design contest.
Transit PlanningComing to Southeast Michigan in 2 years!
Interdisciplinary Work
Working with Architects on City Planning
After a day of engineering
Free time and money to enjoy life.
Skills to help organizations The right skills to help organizations.
Questions?