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Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE)

Over the last 20 years, as we have begun to realise just how much impact human activity has on natural systems,civil engineering schools have begun including in their offerings, programs that focus on the interaction between natural and engineered environments.

Dams, for example, unless you are a beaver, are not part of the natural environment, nor are roads, bridges or desalination plants. They are imposed on the natural system to improve human welfare, societies and the economy, but can have huge, unexpected and negative impacts on the natural environment, and, ultimately, on us.

Cutting edge program

Realising this, Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Adelaide has developed as a cutting edge engineering discipline in terms of research into ways of integrating the built and the natural environments.

Our civil and environmental engineering graduates leave the University ready to work in multidisciplinary teams to deal with the world's ‘big' problems. They are characteristically curious, active problem solvers who are, by nature and training, interested in finding ways to manage the sensitive issues that arise when man-made constructions rub up against natural systems.  read more

Picture taken from research into 
how to help fish get past dams to spawn.