Civil and Environmental Engineering Kookmin University

Overview

The objectives of civil and environmental engineering at Kookmin University are to provide public welfare and to meet the demand of human and socioeconomic activities by developing nature. 

Civil and environmental engineering deals with the planning, construction, and management of infrastructures, like multi-purpose dam, highway, bridge, tunnel, subway, skyscraper, artificial island, rapid transit railway, harbor, airport, urban design, regional development, etc. and to predict and solve environmental problems.

Educational Opportunity

This Civil and Environmental Engineering program started from 1974 as the Department of Civil Engineering and now there are four tracks, structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, water resources engineering, and environmental engineering in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. 

The educational objectives of this program are to educate, global leaders who can detect and adapt themselves to the global trends, engineers with intelligence and good human nature in charge of the construction of infrastructure, and experts who pursue the harmony between human and nature and suggest desirable direction for national development. This program is almost the top 10 among the universities in Korea. Most alumni are working in a major construction or engineering company, public agency, and research institute.