Vision for Civil and Environmental Engineering Departments in the 21st Century

Six years ago, the writer wrote a viewpoint on “Sustainable Infrastructure Systems and Environmentally Conscious Design—A View for the Next Decade” Adeli 2002 . In this forum, the writer presents a vision for a modern civil and environmental engineering CEE program in the twenty-first century. Civil engineers build civilizations! But CEE programs have lost momentum in attracting both students and resources in many U.S. universities in recent...