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Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering

UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science

BUILD YOUR CAREER AT UCF

Your journey starts here, with one of our undergraduate or graduate programs in civil engineering, environmental engineering or construction engineering. 

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UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS
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GRADUATE PROGRAMS

EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION

Our abbreviated name, CECE, stands for more than civil, environmental and construction engineering. It also stands for continuous evolution and consistent excellence, two goals we strive for every academic year. With our highly funded faculty, our cutting-edge facilities and our innovations in both the laboratory and the classroom, we offer a world-class education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. 

No. 64

for best graduate school for civil  engineering education

No. 68

for best graduate school for environmental engineering education

No. 75

for best graduate school for overall engineering education

Top 100

UCF is ranked for undergraduate engineering and computer science education

Apostolakis Wins Best Paper Award

The research journal Engineering Structures has awarded the 2023 Best Paper Award to Assistant Professor Georgios Apostolakis and his students. The winning article, "SVD-Enabled Data Augmentation for Machine Learning-Based Surrogate Modeling of Nonlinear Structure," was authored by Siddharth S. Parida, an assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Co-authors on the paper include Apostolakis, Megan Butcher and Prashant Shekhar from ERAU and Supratik Bose from the University of Buffalo.

NEWS

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Civil Engineering Student Named DOD SMART Scholar
UCF civil engineering student Carlos Arteaga has been selected for the Department of Defense (DOD) Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program. Unlike…
Faculty
Three New Faculty, Including UCF Coastal Director, Join CECE Department
As the technology industry grows each year, so does the need for experts who create innovations that fuel this sector and educate the workforce that…
Faculty
Civil Engineering Professor Receives International Acclaim
Necati Catbas, a Lockheed Martin St. Laurent Professor at the UCF Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, has been honored with the Aftab Mufti…
Students
Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Focuses Research on Water Sustainability
Water covers about 71% of the Earth’s surface. Of that, just 3% is freshwater, but most of that is held captive in glaciers or deep…
Alumni
Civil Engineering Graduate Begins Career at Ardurra
After earning her undergraduate degree in civil engineering from UCF, Sarah Rendell ’25 is beginning a new chapter in her career. The newly minted alumna…
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