The Department offers a graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in civil engineering with areas of concentration in construction management, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, and transportation. The student learning outcomes (SLOs) for the PhD program describe a skill set that students are expected to have at the time of graduation. Specifically, our PhD graduates will be able to:<br><br>Demonstrate foundational knowledge in civil engineering and comprehensive technical expertise in a subdiscipline of specialization.<br>Evaluate critically and synthesize literature to inform engineering solutions.<br>Present proficiently research plans and results orally in a formal setting.<br>Perform original engineering research, and,<br>Produce publishable manuscripts.<br>Each subdiscipline establishes a sequence of courses to achieve SLOs 1 and 2. To achieve SLO 3, every student is required to take a seminar course, where they make an oral presentation, and every student must write a dissertation, which they defend orally during the final examination. To achieve SLO 4 and 5, each student must complete successfully a research-oriented dissertation. The graduate student writing guidance is provided to help students to achieve SLO 4 and 5.