Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction

Well-equipped facilities developed by the department faculty include a computer-assisted design laboratory, a structural engineering laboratory, a concrete materials laboratory, a soil and rock mechanics laboratory, the Transportation Research Center (TRC), a water resources laboratory, an environmental engineering and water quality laboratory, and a construction engineering management laboratory. These facilities provide state-of-the-art research tools. Among these are a MTS dynamic testing machine, a large-scale structural load frame, a 50-foot tilting flume, concrete testing facilities, PCs, workstations, and current software programs are available within these facilities, with additional facilities being available in the college. TRC serves as a focal point at UNLV to facilitate multi-disciplinary initiatives by bringing together assets and resources from across UNLV, and developing partnerships with public and private sector entities and not-for-profit organizations at the national, state, and local levels. Environmental engineering laboratories have a range of experimental and analytical equipment for projects involving biodegradation, chemical analysis, microbial analysis and bench-scale and pilot-scale water/wastewater treatment studies. The CEPM laboratory has capacity to conduct research related to data visualization and sensors. The DSCL lab is equipped with state-of-art Bluetooth sensors and high-performance computing hardware/software. Additional assets include access to high-speed multiprocessor computers housed in the National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment including, the Cherry Creek II supercomputer with 26,000 computer nodes. Facilities are located in the Thomas T. Beam Engineering Complex and Science and Engineering Building. 

Students with backgrounds in civil engineering, and for the Construction and Infrastructure management MS degree, backgrounds in closely related disciplines are invited to apply. Students desiring to specialize in environmental engineering who have baccalaureate degrees in the natural sciences may require at least an additional semester of full time study to complete engineering prerequisite undergraduate course work. Depending on background, this may include fluid mechanics, calculus through differential equations, engineering physics, chemistry and engineering economics. Successful environmental engineering applicants are expected to complete a specified set of graduate courses in engineering hydrology, hydraulics, statistics, water and wastewater treatment, and wastewater treatment plant design during their graduate study.

All applicants must identify a specialization from one of the following areas: construction, geotechnical, structural, transportation or water resources/environmental. Applications for admission to the program are evaluated by faculty members representing each of the respective areas of specialization.

Applications from international students must reach the Graduate College by the dates specified on the Application Deadlines page in order to be considered for financial aid. Offers of financial aid are made in writing by the department, which assumes no responsibility to provide financial support unless an offer is made in writing. Also, when the department has made an offer to provide financial support, it has no obligation to honor the offer unless the student attends UNLV and enrolls in the civil and environmental engineering and construction graduate program during the initial semester for which financial aid was offered.

All requested documents must be uploaded to the f the Graduate College application web page during the application process. None of the documents should be sent to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction.

Pramen Shrestha, Ph.D., Chair
Mohamed Kaseko, Ph.D., Graduate Coordinator  

Program Information 

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction Faculty  

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction Courses  

Department Website

Plans 

Master of Science in Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering  

Master of Science - Construction and Infrastructure Management   

Doctor of Philosophy - Civil and Environmental Engineering  

Dual Degree: Master of Business Administration & Master of Science in Engineering - Civil & Environmental Engineering