土木和环境工程涉及规划，设计，建造和运营各种有形工程，以无害环境的方式开发和利用自然资源，提供支持最高生活质量的基础设施，保护公共健康以及翻修受影响的陆地和海洋环境。土木工程与环境工程系下设五个部门：环境工程，岩土工程，结构工程，运输工程和水工程。
Civil and environmental engineering is concerned with planning, designing, constructing, and operating various physical works, developing and utilizing natural resources in an environmentally sound manner, providing the infrastructure which supports the highest quality of life, and protecting public health and renovating impacted terrestrial and aquatic systems from the mismanagement of toxic and hazardous waste. The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has five divisions: Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Transportation Engineering, and Water Engineering.