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Civil Engineering

Lyles School of Civil


Engineering
What is Civil Engineering? Is CE right for you? CODO Requirements
• Civil Engineering is a type of engineering discipline • Civil Engineers work with math and science on daily • Minimum of 24 credits, including MA161 or 165, PHYS
that builds, designs, and maintain buildings, big bases and has to be perfectionist because they are 172, and CHM 115.
infostructures, airports, transportation, etc. building infostructures that people use. There for • Rest of the credits must from the CE general
most CE are investigative that work to be education elective.
• At Purdue University you will take many civil perfectionists. Also CE always work in teams and are • Minimum of 2.5 GPA.
engineering design and lab courses such as CE398, always in a group work environment therefore most
CE340, CE 343, and much more. engineers are extroverts. If you like to math and
science and like to incorporate it in to real life
applications and have your own ideas and designs CE
Post Grad
• Since Purdue has such a prestige CE school
Plan of Study is the right fit for you.
employers fight for Purdue grads most of them will
• To earn a CE degree you will have to take total find employment in the industry such as Structural,
of 6 math courses going up to MA266,
Ordinary Differential Equations.
Job growth and Salary Hydraulics, Transportation engineer.
• About 20% of the graduates will pursue high degree
• You also need 4 science courses such as PHYS • There are estimated 320 thousands job in such as CE PhD and other disciplines of engineering
172 and PHYS 241. the US and outlook of 8% growth within the such as professional engineering.
• Foreign language is not a requirement for this next 10 years, the median pay for CE are
major. $86000.

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