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OUR VISION is to provide research that transforms the art and practice of Civil and Environmental Engineering and to provide flexibility in innovation and expertise that meets the growing challenges of human society through sustainable solutions.

OUR MISSION is to educate future creators and innovators who will employ their grounding in engineering to become leaders in many spheres of society and to discover and develop new knowledge and sustainable technologies that improves the practice of civil and environmental engineering in service to society.

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Graduate Programs

Ph.D./M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering

M.Eng. in Civil and Environmental Engineering

M.Eng. in Engineering Management

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Undergraduate Studies

Civil Engineering Major

Environmental Engineering Major

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Christina Chu-Garcia

Christina Chu-Garcia is listed as one of the 2018 rising stars in Civil Structural Engineering. She is also a CEE alumna, earning her Master’s of Engineering in Structural Engineering and her Bachelor... Read more

Welcome Qi Li

Qi Li has joined the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell as an assistant professor. Li is interested in fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and hydrologic processes in the built... Read more

Welcome April Gu

Professor April Gu has joined the faculty of Cornell’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). Gu’s major research interest is understanding and applying biological agents and their... Read more

Aurora Namnum: Making Spaces Better For Everyone

"Aurora took a course in transportation engineering and one in engineering economics from me during her career so far in CEE, so I heard from her a few times about her work on greenhouse gas emissions... Read more

Research Areas

Geotechnical Engineering

Structural Engineering

Transportation Systems Engineering

Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology

Environmental Processes

Remote Sensing

Research Areas

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Climate study warns of vanishing safety window—here’s why

March 19, 2019

National Geographic By Stephen Leahy Published March 12, 2019 Millions of possible scenarios were analyzed, and only a few are acceptable, the scientists said. A NEW SCIENTIFIC analysis of millions of... Read more about Climate study warns of vanishing safety window—here’s why

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New Class is a Win-Win for M.Eng. Students and Local Startups

Robert Newman , a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Management in Cornell’s College of Engineering, had some specific objectives when he launched the new class ENGMT 5940: Economics and Finance for... Read more about New Class is a Win-Win for M.Eng. Students and Local Startups

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