GIVING OPPORTUNITIES
In 1881 Penn State introduced a course of study in civil engineering
and the trustees appointed Professor Louis B. Barnard as the first Head
of the Department of Civil. The first graduate of the program received
his degree in 1884. In 1992 the department name was changed to "Civil
and Environmental Engineering" to reflect the growing importance
of environmental issues and our separate graduate degrees in environmental
engineering. The US News and World Report currently ranks Penn State's
undergraduate civil engineering program at number 15 in the country
and the graduate program at number 18. Today, there are over 7,000 living
Penn State civil engineering alumni in the US and around the world.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is educating world
class engineers through high quality undergraduate and graduate programs
provided by an world class faculty. We need our alumni are to help us
stimulate growth and maintain our current level of excellence.
Giving Opportunities For CEE
CEE Enrichment and Excellence Fund
The objective of the Civil and Environmental Enrichment and Excellence
Fund is to provide support for rewarding excellence and developing initiatives
in research and education. Faculty and students are limited in their
ability to pursue development opportunities and other initiatives due
to increasingly tight departmental budgets and the scarcity of outside
research funding to develop new teaching and research ideas. The enrichment
and excellence fund would be used to support travel to meet with educational
and research collaborators and funding agencies, to fund students to
travel to conferences with faculty, to establish teaching awards, to
develop new educational initiatives, and to initiate interdisciplinary
activities that meet the objectives of the strategic plan.
Teaching Assistantships, Fellowships, and Scholarships
Fellowships available to highly qualified undergraduate or graduate
applicants could have a significant impact on the quality of our academic
programs, particularly in terms of providing more flexibility in attracting
a diverse pool students. The department currently has 14 teaching assistant
positions. Additional teaching assistant positions would improve the
quality of the undergraduate program and also help with graduate recruitment.
Endowed Faculty Positions
The department currently has two endowed positions, an endowed Chair
in Housing, and an endowed Professorship in Environmental Engineering.
Endowed chaired positions could make a major improvement in the department’s
profile by leading the department in our interdisciplinary initiatives,
such as Civil Engineering Systems, Geo-environmental, and Civil Engineering
Materials. The department needs additional tenure-track faculty positions
to provide a high quality education at both the graduate and undergraduate
levels. In addition to tenure-track positions, which have a research
focus, several non-tenure-track positions related to professional practice
and engineering design would make an important contribution to our undergraduate
program in terms of addressing professional issues. The professional
instructors would have an emphasis on design and engineering practice,
both desirable in terms of departmental strategic goals.
For information on making a gift of any type, please contact:
Mark Sharer
Director of Development
College of Engineering
0101 Hammond Building
University Park, PA 16802
E-mail: mts122@psu.edu
Phone Number: 1-814-863-3848