MEng in Civil Engineering in Virginia Beach United States | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

The department consists of 48 tenured or tenure-track professors along with 21 emeritus faculty, many remaining actively involved. It also includes 26 additional faculty members spanning professors of practice, research faculty, and administrative roles, plus 18 supporting staff members. Among the faculty are three National Academy of Engineering members, one National Academy of Science member, two National Academy of Construction members, and ten holding distinguished named professorships. Fifteen faculty have earned prestigious early-career honors like NSF's Presidential Young Investigator or CAREER awards, while two received the PECASE Award and seven won Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award. The department's faculty are consistently recognized for excellence in teaching, research, and outreach. For civil engineering students, graduate studies offer specialization across 10 focus areas: civil engineering materials, infrastructure engineering, construction management, environmental engineering, geospatial engineering, geotechnical engineering, sustainable land development, water resources, structural engineering, and transportation engineering. Students may also pursue minors in complementary engineering fields or related disciplines like mathematics, engineering mechanics, chemistry, geology, or urban studies.