As one of the nation’s top public research universities, Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins, Colorado, is a land-grant institution, with enrollment of more than 33,000 students. CSU offers 76 undergraduate degree programs, 114 graduate degree programs, 21 professional master’s degree programs, and a Professional Veterinary Medicine program. CSU’s world-class research and scholarship attract more than $400 million in research funding annually, putting the university among top federally funded public universities without a medical school.
The Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department at CSU is recognized both nationally and internationally for education, research, and service and outreach. The CEE Department comprises 34 faculty, 7 research scientists, 13 research associates, and 13 administrative staff. The Department offers undergraduate degrees in both civil engineering (CE) and environmental engineering (EnvE), and both the Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in civil engineering. The Department also offers graduate programs at the Master of Engineering (M.E.) level both on campus and via CSU’s distance education program known as CSU Online. The Department currently (2022-23) is educating 541 undergraduate students (321 in CE and 220 in EnvE) and 192 graduate students (84 Ph.D., 68 M.S., 40 M.E.). The faculty, research scientists/associates and students in the CEE Department are extremely active in conducting leading edge research in numerous areas of both civil and environmental engineering, as evident, in part, by the research expenditures which have averaged $14.2M over the last seven fiscal years (FY16-22) . Such research serves not only to solve real-world problems of current state, national, and international significance, but also to push the envelope of the discipline so that future generations can reap the benefits of our efforts towards enhancing society’s ability to sustain and develop the infrastructure necessary for our continued existence and quality of life.