Program Objectives The Civil Engineering Department shares a common mission with the engineering departments within the School of Engineering and Applied Science to equip our graduates to enter professional practice.  This mission is summarized in the following 4 broad program objectives:

1. Graduates will be able to competently apply mathematics, science, and engineering analyses to the design and analysis of engineered solutions.

2. Graduates will be able to competently apply basic experimental techniques to engineering design and analysis.

3. Graduates will be able to competently design engineered solutions.

4. Graduates will have a complement of skills necessary for professional practice.

 
These four objectives encompass the skills we believe our graduates need to enter engineering practice.  Further, the suitability of these objectives and the coursework to attain them, are assessed  and evaluated by each department on a three-year cycle.  As such, these skills embody the “specialized skills” as described in the Gonzaga University Mission Statement.