About Us
The undergraduate program at Iowa State University’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (ISU CCEE) was ranked No. 22 in the nation in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges Rankings. ISU CCEE’s graduate civil engineering program was ranked No. 27 in the nation, or No. 18 among public universities, in the 2021 US News & World Report’s rankings. The current fall 2020 undergraduate and graduate enrollments are 863 and 131, respectively. ISU CCEE is the second largest department of its kind (out of 159 departments nationally). ISU CCEE is also the largest department of its kind among Land Grant Peer 11 institutions and Peer Twelve institutions. Iowa State’s construction engineering undergraduate program is the largest of its kind in the nation. As of fall 2020, ISU CCEE had a total number of 31 tenure/tenure track (TTT) faculty members, 12.8 term faculty/lecturers and 7.3 research faculty plus 17.8 support staff for a total of 68.5 full-time equivalency (FTE) faculty and staff.
Mission Statement
Iowa State University’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) promotes intellectual, social and ethical development of civil and construction engineers. We also create and communicate engineering concepts and technology.
Vision
The vision of ISU’s CCEE Department is to be a world-class source of civil, construction and environmental engineers and their concepts and technologies.