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Dec 17, 2025
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CVE 4901 - Civil Engineering Capstone I2 lecture hours 4 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
This course is the first of a two-course Civil Engineering capstone design experience. Students form multidisciplinary teams and produce programs and designs that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety and welfare. Students consider global, cultural, social, societal, environmental and economic factors in their design. The team members work together to provide leadership within a collaborative and inclusive environment where they establish the goals of the project, plan tasks, and meet project objectives. This course focuses on alternatives development and analysis, and preliminary engineering design tasks and objectives. The students develop a program related to the client’s needs and requirements. Knowledge and skills learned in prerequisite course work will be integrated into this course. Students must effectively communicate their design intentions to stakeholders throughout the semester and during the culminating design presentations at the end of the semester. The preliminary designs developed in this course will be continued in CVE 4902 - Capstone II. The CAECM Capstone Handbook applies to this course, and the handbook provides full details for the student’s participation in and satisfactory completion of the course.
Prereq: Senior standing, cumulative and major GPA greater than or equal to 2.00, successful completion of each of the three required specialty courses in the student’s specialty area, or department chair consent
Coreq: Enrollment in CON 3001 and remaining Civil Engineering “breadth” electives, if not already complete
Note: None
This course meets the following Raider Core CLO Requirement: Integrate Learning
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Develop an entire project from conceptualization to final design, including design of architectural and engineering systems, construction feasibility, selection of methods of construction, schedule, budget, logistics and economics
- Integrate the student’s knowledge of his or her specialty area into a complex, ill-defined project
- Develop effective report writing and presentation skills, building on the student’s basic communication skills learned from prior course work
- Integrate elements of sustainable design into the project
- Embrace diversity by exploring ways to demonstrate inclusivity toward others and address historical and existing barriers to social equity through the alternatives evaluation process
- Compare and contrast reasonable solutions and decide on the optimal solution
- Generate and facilitate work relationships with faculty and fellow students akin to those found in industry
- Successfully collaborate in a multidisciplinary, team-based environment
Prerequisites by Topic
- Design knowledge in the student’s specialty area
Course Topics
(Subject to change based on the current year’s project):
- Introduction to the course
- Three-dimensional thought and design considerations
- Site considerations and analysis
- Problem identification within the student’s specialization
- Preliminary engineering solutions, analysis of alternatives
- Code issues, zoning issues
- Construction delivery systems
- Project budgeting, estimating, scheduling and project management
- Presentation considerations
- Presentations to building code officials, clients and other professionals
Coordinator
Dr. William S. Gonwa, P.E.
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