Civil Engineering school training courses in Charlotte, NC (public, in-house or online)

CPCC is North Carolina’s largest Community College. With 6 campuses distributed across the Charlotte Mecklenburg region, CPCC has options as diverse as the student community we serve.

For those students located outside this area, CPCC has a comprehensive distance education program, offering more than 250 classes online each semester. In addition to online courses, we offer traditional (television based) telecourses.

This certificate prepares individuals to enter the Materials Testing Career in the Construction Industry.

The Civil Engineering Technology curriculum provides the application of relevant theory of engineering needed by technicians to carry out planning and supervisory tasks in the construction of transportation systems, residential and commercial buildings, bridges, dams, and water and wastewater treatment systems. Coursework includes the communication and computational skills required to support the fields such as materials testing, structures, estimating, project management, hydraulics, environmen...

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In the information technology age, more resources are available for building new cities, repairing the infrastructure, cleaning up the environment: these are all tasks for the civil engineer. Major corporations, government agencies, private consulting and construction firms, and universities are just some of the organizations that employ civil engineers.

A region’s physical, economic, and social structure is fundamentally tied to its transportation system. The field of Transportation Engineering focuses on the planning, design, construction, management, and performance of these vital systems. Transportation systems consist of facilities, vehicles, control mechanisms, technology, and policies that combine to permit the efficient transit of people and freight.

The M.S. in Civil Engineering (Transportation Engineering) program offers st...

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