The Lamar University Doctor of Engineering Degree is designed to prepare you, as a practicing civil engineer, to advance research, development and education for addressing national and global challenges towards a highly sustainable industrial-based focus on infrastructure and transit architecture projects. The Doctor of Engineering Degree at Lamar University offers competitive scholarships and assistantships for you as a highly qualified student with research interests compatible with those of the civil and environmental engineering faculty. <br><br>Civil and environmental engineers design a safer, cleaner world for all of us. Your career in civil and environmental engineering will allow you to make sure that we all have safe places to live and work. You'll provide us with clean drinking water and ways to live sustainably. With the world's growing population and our limited natural resources, your work will be extremely important in ensuring sustainable development of our resources.