Numerous Options to Customize Your Journey

Civil engineers design, build, supervise and maintain construction projects including roads, buildings, airports, tunnels, water systems and more. From designing safe crosswalks to managing water systems, civil engineers have a lasting impact.

The University of Dayton's broad spectrum of courses allows you to maximize and customize your career options and provides flexibility to concentrate in your area of interest. We offer technical elective courses in environmental, geotechnical, structural, transportation and water resource engineering to help make your customized program possible.

You'll complete real-world design projects that link leadership and service to learning and scholarship in our Catholic, Marianist tradition. We focus on advancing state-of-the-art design and building safe, reliable and affordable infrastructure.




Every Student Is Unique. So Is UD.

Meaningful Real-World Experience

Take your engineering knowledge from the classroom and apply it in the real world. At UD, you'll have multiple opportunities for experiential learning, including co-ops and internships.

Through our ETHOS Center, you'll have a chance to gain perspectives on how engineering and technology are influenced by the world through service-learning experiences.

Preparation for the Next Step

All University of Dayton students and alumni have access to Career Services, which provides a variety of services including career advising, events, workshops and more.

For undergraduate students wanting to pursue graduate degrees, we offer a Bachelor's Plus Master's Program.

An Involved Community

The community at the University of Dayton is one of the many elements that make this campus feel like home.

As a Flyer, you'll be able to get involved through engineering clubs and organizations, like the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Transportation Engineers and professional fraternities and honor societies, like the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi.

Research for a Better World

At UD, our Catholic, Marianist values guide us to conduct research to create a better world for everyone.

Not only will you have a chance to work in our many labs find solutions to make a real-world impact, you'll be able to participate in and learn from others in our engineering centers.



News from Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Road construction site
Engineering
09.04.2025

UD researcher wins $1.41M grant to create audiovisual system for safer work zones link-arrow link-arrow

A University of Dayton researcher, with $1.41 million from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, is striving to make work zones safer with additional "eyes" and "ears" to improve situational awareness and early warning of hazards.  
Engineering
06.24.2025

7 Questions with Dr. Bear Jiang link-arrow link-arrow

We sat down with Dr. Bear Jiang, post-doc to tenure track fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, to learn more about his career and research.
Engineering
07.01.2024

New Chair Selected for Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics link-arrow link-arrow

Dr. Deogratias Eustace, professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, will assume the role of department chair on July 1.

Our Facilities

Unique Engineering Lab Spaces

Our students don't just learn about engineering for the common good — they get to experience it firsthand. We offer 36 unique lab spaces that focus on solutions impacting society.



Contact Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
300 College Park
Dayton, Ohio 45469 - 0243
937-229-3847 email