Program Description

The graduate certificate in Civil Infrastructure and Security Engineering is a professional program that is appropriate for civil infrastructure (transportation, water and wastewater, utilities, etc.) owners and operators, designers, planners, maintenance staff, and other technical workers within the public and private sectors, who are responsible for improving facility and equipment performance, reliability, security, efficiency, and management practices.

New approaches to civil infrastructure problems are emerging that use traditional civil engineering domain knowledge, in the context of information technology with a systems approach, to analyze the complexity of and interaction among various infrastructure components and their performance. Currently, the most important challenge of infrastructure engineering is to improve the quality of stewardship, which falls far short of public expectations, and to improve immediately the security of critical civil infrastructure. The Civil Infrastructure and Security Engineering Certificate is intended to respond uniquely to the need for broad training in the holistic/systems approach to the long-term management of infrastructure, with specific attention to risk and vulnerability assessments, and to creative solutions to providing improved system security. The certificate program is flexible and can be tailored to the needs of students within the infrastructure engineering community, but is also intended to be responsive to the needs of infrastructure owners, operators, and other technical staff.