Civil engineers design, construct, operate and maintain facilities and systems that serve the basic needs of society.
Environmental engineers design solutions to protect the environment and create a more sustainable world.

UMass Lowell Advantages

  • Specialty areas. Focus your studies in Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Geoenvironmental Engineering, Structural Engineering or Transportation Engineering.
  • Career flexibility. Gain technical training and problem-solving skills for an engineering career in local industry, consulting firms and state/federal agencies. Our graduates have also built careers in law, financial analysis, software development and business.
  • Dedicated faculty. Our Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) classes are taught by full-time faculty and class sizes are small.
  • ABET-accredited. Our undergraduate degree program in Civil Engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET.

Meet Our Students and Alumni

Christopher Ingemi works on a model of a bridge
Christopher Ingemi
Civil & Environmental Engineering

A former carpenter sidelined by the recession, Christopher Ingemi went back to school at Middlesex Community College and then transferred to UML. Now, thanks to his job in a lab, he’s completed his master’s in civil engineering and found a great job as a bridge designer.

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Sofia Savoca with her mom outside O'Leary Library on South Campus
Sofia Savoca
Civil Engineering

Sofia Savoca chose UMass Lowell for the opportunity to be in the Honors College and to study civil engineering. She’s found a dozen new opportunities since arriving on campus.

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Fatin Rahman posing with another student in front of Society for Women Engineers booth.
Fatin Rahman
Civil Engineering

Fatin Rahman combines her skills for academics and leadership to inspire women and underrepresented students in engineering.

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 Christine Clancy smiles in an office in Lowell
Christine Clancy
Civil and Environmental Engineering

As Lowell’s city engineer, civil and environmental engineering alum Christine Clancy ’06 is responsible for infrastructure projects on streets, bridges and sidewalks throughout the city – including those on the campus of her alma mater.

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  • Postdoc Xintong Yan works on an AI identification tool for mapping sidewalks

    Civil Engineering Professor Helps State Improve Traffic Safety

    Civil Engineering Professor Yuanchang Xie has a two-year state grant to improve traffic safety and planning by generating better data on intersections and sidewalks. He is also using AI to predict the traffic impacts of new developments.
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  • A boy uses a screwdriver on a battery while another boy in a hoodie and a college student look on in a room.

    MakerSpace Helps Engineering Student Build a Home at UML

    Transfer student Michael Noel has found a home in the Lawrence Lin MakerSpace, where he not only builds his own future as a civil engineer but also inspires his young cousins to imagine theirs.
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  • A man holds a model of an entertainment center while a man and a woman look on next to a podium.

    Fire Safety Innovation Wins Engineering Prototyping Competition

    A device that makes permanently mounted window bars fire-safe by allowing residents to release them instantly in an emergency won the annual Francis College of Engineering Prototyping Competition, hosted by the Rist DifferenceMaker Institute.