The UW-Platteville Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers two bachelor of science degrees: civil engineering and environmental engineering. The civil engineering degree requirements include completion of one emphasis area: construction, environmental, municipal, structural, geotechnical or transportation. The environmental engineering degree requirements provide a background in all of the major areas of environmental engineering.
The UW-Platteville Civil Engineering Program gives students a broad background in all areas of civil engineering, while permitting specialization in the senior year. Practical applications are emphasized with sufficient theory so that the individual can grow with the future as new materials, methods and designs develop. The program has outstanding laboratory and computer facilities where all students gain valuable hands-on practical experience. The use of computers and state-of-the-art practice equipment are integrated throughout the curriculum from freshman through senior year to collect information, analyze data, and develop plans for projects.
Civil engineers plan, design, and supervise construction of facilities that serve people. These facilities include highways that connect our nation's cities, airports that serve travelers, bridges that span our rivers and harbors, dams and levees that control floods and supply water for cities, and wastewater treatment plants that protect the environment. Civil engineers also work with architects to design and supervise construction of buildings.
The civil engineering design process begins with the accumulation and analysis of basic information about a project. This information may include the topography and geology for a highway; flood history of a river that must be bridged or dammed; population growth projections and water usage; laboratory analysis of construction materials; or pollution surveys of air, land and water. Using this information, civil engineers apply their knowledge of science and engineering design to meet a project's requirements, assuring its successful completion.
The vision of the UW-Platteville Civil Engineering Program is to provide the education and training to create citizen engineers who will be leaders in the civil and environmental engineering profession and in their communities.
Citizen engineers are:
In order to achieve the vision of the UW-Platteville Civil Engineering Program, graduates of the program will:
The realization of these objectives is expected to occur within five years of graduation. In order to ensure that graduates are adequately prepared to meet these objectives, the civil and environmental engineering department program outcomes define the competencies that students are expected to demonstrate at graduation.
The following program outcomes are designed to produce graduates who will meet the program objectives:
Course repeat policy: Required general engineering and CIVILENG courses may be repeated only once.
Dismissal from civil engineering: In addition to all university and College of EMS policies, if a grade of "D" or "F" is earned in the second attempt of a CIVILENG course, the student will be dismissed from the College of EMS and the UW-Platteville Civil Engineering Program.
Re-admittance policy: To gain re-admittance to the College of EMS and civil engineering, a dismissed student must appeal in writing to the College of EMS Admissions and Academic Standards Committee and only the College of EMS Admissions and Academic Standards Committee may grant the student re-admission. If the student is readmitted to civil engineering on a probationary status, any decisions, sanctions or remediation plans rendered by the EMS Admissions and Academic Standards Committee may hold the student to a higher standard than the above civil engineering policies. Any decisions, sanctions or remediation plans that hold a probationary student to a standard different from the civil engineering policies may be appealed by the student to the EMS Admissions and Academic Standards Committee. Probationary students in violation of their remediation plan may be subject to additional sanctions including being dropped from any CIVILENG course at any time at the discretion of the EMS Admissions and Academic Standards Committee.
Program requirements: A grade of "C" or higher must be earned in all courses that are prerequisite courses for other CIVILENG courses.
All-3000 level CIVILENG courses must be satisfactorily completed prior to enrolling in CIVILENG 4930 Civil Engineering Design Project.
All students must complete one of the following areas with a minimum of 14 credits:
The UW-Platteville Environmental Engineering Program provides a balance between basic science, engineering science and engineering design. The purpose of the curriculum is to develop in each student a thorough understanding of the underlying environmental principles in the basic sciences along with practical applications in engineering design. Although emphasis is placed upon learning the fundamentals, each student will be encouraged to develop excellent technical and communication skills, become broadly educated and become a productive member of society.
The UW-Platteville Environmental Engineering Program is designed to give students a broad background in all areas of environmental engineering These include water and wastewater treatment, environmental and occupational health, solid waste management, water resources, environmental modeling and environmental chemistry. Practical applications are emphasized with sufficient theory so that the individual can develop innovative solutions as new problems are encountered.
Environmental engineering is the application of scientific and engineering principles to improve and maintain the environment for the protection of human health, nature's beneficial ecosystems and biodiversity, and for environment-related enhancement of the quality of human life. Through education and experience, environmental engineers develop an understanding of the earth's biological, chemical, physical and geological systems. They use this information to develop engineering plans for solutions to environmental problems caused by pollution. They also develop pollution prevention plans to keep environmental problems from developing in the first place.
Environmental engineers analyze contaminated streams, lakes, air, soil and groundwater to determine the extent and severity of contamination. These environmental measurements provide the basis for engineers to design treatment and remediation processes to remove and/or degrade pollutants. Environmental scientists and engineers work together with city or county officials, regulatory officials, consultants and nearby residents to achieve a solution to pollution problems.
The vision of the UW-Platteville Environmental Engineering Program is to provide the education and training to create citizen engineers who will be leaders in the civil and environmental engineering profession and in their communities.
Citizen engineers are:
In order to achieve the vision of the UW-Platteville Environmental Engineering Program, graduates of the program will:
The realization of these objectives is expected to occur within five years of graduation. In order to ensure that graduates are adequately prepared to meet these objectives, the UW-Platteville Environmental Engineering Department program outcomes define the competencies that students are expected to demonstrate at graduation.
The following program outcomes are designed to produce graduates who will meet the program objectives:
Course repeat policy: Required general engineering and CIVILENG courses may be repeated once.
Dismissal from environmental engineering: In addition to all university and College of EMS policies, if a grade of "D" or "F" is earned in the second attempt of a CIVILENG course, the student will be dismissed from the College of EMS and the UW-Platteville Environmental Engineering Program.
Re-admittance policy: To gain re-admittance to the College of EMS and the UW-Platteville Environmental Engineering Program, a dismissed student must appeal in writing to the College of EMS Admissions and Academic Standards Committee and only the College of EMS Admissions and Academic Standards Committee may grant the student re-admission. If the student is readmitted to environmental engineering on a probationary status, any decisions, sanctions or remediation plans rendered by the EMS Admissions and Academic Standards Committee may hold the student to a higher standard than the above environmental engineering policies. Any decisions, sanctions or remediation plans that hold a probationary student to a standard different from the environmental engineering policies may be appealed by the student to the EMS Admissions and Academic Standards Committee. Probationary students in violation of their remediation plan may be subject to additional sanctions including being dropped from any CIVILENG course at any time at the discretion of the EMS Admissions and Academic Standards Committee.
Program requirements: A grade of "C" or higher must be earned in all courses that are prerequisite courses for other CIVILENG courses.
All-3000 level CIVILENG courses must be satisfactorily completed prior to enrolling in CIVILENG 4930 Civil Engineering Design Project.