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.