土木和基础设施工程哲学博士的创建是为了让学生为在公共或私营部门，学者或政府的研究与开发中的高级领导职位做好准备。学生可以选择在以下领域学习：建筑工程与管理，环境与水资源工程，岩土工程，结构工程或运输工程。被录取的学生将根据与医生顾问一起制定的学习计划，在其技术兴趣领域内完成必修课程和适用课程。他们将参加资格考试，以评估学生在研究生阶段的知识广度和进行研究的能力。他们将组成一个博士委员会，并准备并捍卫导致博士候选人资格的论文提案。最后，他们将进行原创性的学术研究并进行准备，然后为博士学位论文辩护。兼职和全日
The Doctor of Philosophy in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering was created to prepare students for advanced leadership positions in research and development in the public or private sector, academics, or government. Students may elect to study in the areas of: construction engineering and management, environmental and water resources engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, or transportation engineering. Admitted students will complete both required and applicable course work in their technical interest area based on a plan of study prepared with a doctoral advisor. They will take qualifying exams that assess student's breadth of knowledge at the graduate level and competency to conduct research. They will form a doctoral committee and prepare and defend a dissertation proposal leading to PhD candidacy. Finally, they will conduct original scholarly research and prepare, then defend a doctoral dissertation. Both part-time and full-time study is available.