Following the recent establishment of the new civil engineering graduate program at Stony Brook University, PWGC President Dr. Paul Grosser has been selected as a member of the university’s newly minted Civil Engineering Advisory Board.
As a board member, Dr. Grosser will play an advisory role in guiding the direction of Stony Brook University’s Department of Civil Engineering. He will work in cooperation with Stony Brook administrators to mold the recently established Civil Engineering Program. The program’s ultimate goal is to compete with the top engineering schools in the country, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cal Tech and the University of Illinois.
“I have always been a strong supporter of encouraging and developing young people to become civil engineers,” says Grosser. “This program is a great opportunity.”
The research aspect of the program has already been set and Stony Brook University will be strengthening the program through the addition of laboratory space and related equipment for the undergraduate engineering agenda. Future plans include the addition of Masters and PhD engineering programs to allow for more in-depth studies and increase the program’s stature.
To date, interest in the program from interested candidates already far exceeds current capacity. Stony Brook’s engineering program will celebrate its first graduating class in May 2016.
More from SBU about the new civil engineering program:
The Department of Civil Engineering at Stony Brook University is pleased to announce the establishment of a new graduate program in Civil Engineering. The newly established graduate program offers Advanced Graduate Certificates, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering. The Department of Civil Engineering is one of nine academic departments within the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University. The Department offers research opportunities in all the major areas of civil engineering and is affiliated with the recently established New York State (NYS) Center for Clean Water Technology. Collaborative opportunities exist with a multitude of research centers on campus, such as the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) and the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center. Collaborative opportunities also exist with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), which is less than 30 miles from campus. Stony Brook University is a co-manager of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), a multidisciplinary research laboratory supporting world class scientific programs utilizing state-of-the-art facilities, such as the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) II, the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, and the NewYorkBlue IBM BG/L+P supercomputer. Stony Brook University is located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island’s scenic North Shore. Our 1,100-acre campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and more than 13,500 faculty and staff. The University is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities.