Build Resilient Infrastructure
Civil engineers plan, design, construct, operate, and renew the infrastructure that supports modern life. Their work includes buildings, bridges, transportation networks, foundations, water systems, public spaces, and major construction projects.
They also help communities respond to aging infrastructure, population growth, climate risks, and new technologies. By combining technical analysis, design, construction knowledge, and public responsibility, civil engineers create systems that are safe, reliable, resilient, and built to serve people for generations.
What You Will Do at Drexel
Connect engineering fundamentals to laboratory work, design projects, senior capstone, faculty research, and professional co-op experience. Students build design skills progressively, from first-year exploration to integrated professional-scale work.
Philadelphia provides access to bridges, rail and roadway systems, active construction, water and stormwater networks, historic structures, and neighborhood-scale infrastructure challenges. Students can also participate in research involving advanced materials, structural monitoring, geotechnical systems, transportation, water resources, robotics, sensing, and climate resilience.
Where the Degree Can Take You
Engineering consulting; structural and geotechnical design; transportation and mobility; water resources and public works; construction and project management; utilities and infrastructure ownership; government agencies; research and graduate study.
Review the curriculum and program requirements to see the full degree structure and preparation for professional practice.
Drexel Engineering Co-Op
Co-op crystallizes understanding of your chosen field. You come away knowing more about the options for a career path, your preferred work environment, and become more confident about the focus within your chosen discipline. The context you gain provides you with the ability to start your career ready to make a difference. Learn more about co-op.
Hometown: Devon, PA
Major: Civil Engineering
Class Year: 2024
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Career/Job Outlook
Careers in civil engineering provide many diverse opportunities working in private firms or with government agencies, with job titles such as geotechnical engineer, building control surveyor, structural engineer, water hygiene engineer and many others. Civil Engineers' make a median salary of $99,590 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some other outcomes for Drexel Engineers include:
- 99% of Drexel civil engineer majors are employed or in grad school one year after graduation
- $71K+ average salary Drexel civil engineer one-year after graduation
- 85% receive job offers from former co-op employers
Student Experience
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