1. Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy

2. Civil & Environmental Engineering Structures Transportation Environment Hydrology Construction Soils/Geotech Materials Site Planning

3. What do CE’s do? Each area has: Typical Projects Engineering Tasks Specific Skills / Personality

4. Site Development— Typical Project

5. Site Development—Engineering Design so rain water runs away from homes. Design storm and sanitary sewers to take away rain and waste.

6. Site Development—Skills CAD: Slope calculation

7. Site Development—Personality Site developers often work with lots of people. (Home owners, city councils.)

8. Transportation— Typical Projects

9. Transportation—Engineering (Roads) Forecasting travel Planning Checking Safety

10. Transportation—Skills Able to make tables & charts Write reports Enjoy simulations

11. Transportation Personality Very frequent dealings with public

12. Construction—Typical Projects

13. Construction—Engineering Know what is important in a design. If something isn’t working, make a decision on what to do.

14. Construction—Skills Tracking a schedule Dealing with questions

15. Construction—Personality Decisive Like outdoors Must be an adventurer—stay in one place for two years, then move. Repeat…

16. Soils / Geotechnical Engineering— Typical Projects Any construction project Roads, Buildings, Dams

17. Geotech—Engineering Determine if a structure can be held by the soil. Designing soil retaining systems

18. Soils / Geotechnical Engineering— Skills Calculating weight of the soil Supervise crews

19. Geotech–Personality Like a mix of indoor and outdoor work Like manipulating test equipment

20. Materials-Typical Projects All construction projects

21. Materials—Engineering Understand cement chemistry & structure

22. Materials—Skills Proportion materials Operate test equipment

23. Environment—Projects

24. Environment—Engineering Determine how to clean water or hazardous waste

25. Environment—Skills Chemistry Understand Bio-organisms

26. Hydraulics & Hydrology

27. Hydrology—Engineering Determine if rain will cause flooding in a creek. Design the water collection system (storm sewer)

28. Hydrology—Skills Predict rainfall Follow route of water flow

29. Structures

30. Structures—Engineering Determine how strong a building needs to be to resist wind, earthquakes, etc.

31. Structures—Skills Static and dynamic analysis (Advanced physics) Understand how and why materials fail, and how to prevent it.

32. Structures—Personality Exceptional in math and drafting/visualization Nose in a book

33. Or do it all:

34. 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?

35. My Career in Civil Engineering

36. My First Engineering Job (coop): City Design I designed and supervised construction of new utilities.

37. 1 st Job after college: Army Corp I designed $1B Lock and Dam projects, saving Millions of $’s.

38. Professional work while at UDM I designed structural systems that improve vehicle safety.

39. Tall Buildings I designed a testing method for foundation support piles for tall buildings.

40. Student Involvement in Research With a team of students, we won $5000 in a design contest.

41. Transit Planning Coming to Southeast Michigan in 2 years!

42. Interdisciplinary Work Working with Architects on City Planning

43. After a day of engineering Free time and money to enjoy life.

44. Skills to help organizations The right skills to help organizations.

45. Questions?