Civil engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like transportation systems, bridges, buildings, etc. The department offers a comprehensive and integrated program that allows the student to develop a solid knowledge basis in different civil engineering disciplines such as Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, and Construction Engineering and Management. Structural engineering deals with the analysis and implementation of mechanics to the design of structures that are fundamental to basic living such as buildings, bridges, walls, dams, and tunnels. While subjects related to Geotechnical engineering are associated with the behavior of soils under the influence of loading forces and soil-water interactions. The transportation engineering discipline involves the present and future broad planning of the requirements of transportation systems, as well as the design, construction, and maintenance of these systems such as those of roads, airports, parking lots, and the management of traffic volumes with the necessary design of the traffic signals and public transportation.