Civil Engineering and Environmental Science Senior Projects
All CEE students complete a year-long, industry-sponsored senior design projects. Students learn to communicate effectively with industry professionals while coordinating real-world engineering projects.
Real-World, Industry-Sponsored Learning
These projects, facilitated through our Project Center, bring together all aspects of the CEE curriculum and provide students the opportunity to address economic factors and operational concerns in a real-world environment.
As of 2022, 20 CEE design team projects have earned the prestigious NCEES Engineering Education Award, which recognizes engineering programs that encourage collaboration between students and professional engineers. Since the inception of these awards in 2009, CEE has 27% of all NCEES awards.
Below are student projects from the past few years, including links to video summaries where available.
- CEE 23.1 - Rainwater Collection/Irrigation System for an Urban Farm (Black Farmers Collective)
- CEE 23.2 - Camp Korey Fisher Lodge Renovations (Degenkolb Engineers)
- CEE 23.3 - Seismic Evaluation and Upgrade Design of the North Substation Control Building (Seattle City Light)
- CEE 23.4 - Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group- Wiseman Creek Cascade Trail Enhancement (Skagit County Parks and Recreation)
- CEE 23.5 - 52nd Ave W and 164th St Pedestrian Improvement Plan (Snohomish County Public Works)
- CEE 23.6 - Snoqualmie River Gauge Screening Algorithm and Inundation Map Development (Snoqualmie Valle Preservation Alliance)
- CEE 22.1 - Off the Grid Community Development for Transitional Homeless Populations (Pallet SPC)
- CEE 22.2 - Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Lucky Peak Powerhouse (Seattle City Light)
- CEE 22.3 - South Machias Road/Three Lakes Road Intersection Improvements (Snohomish County Public Works Department)
- CEE 22.4 - Larned Apartment Seismic Retrofit (Community Roots Housing, Swenson Say Faget)
- ENSC 22.1 - The Effects of Pond Levelers on Flow and Overtopping Frequency in Beaver Dams (Snoqualmie Valley Watershed Improvement District)
- ENSC 22.2 - Evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Traditional Aerial Imagery for Mapping Large Wood on Forested Shorelines of an Urbanized Pacific Northwest Estuary (USDA Forest Service)
- CEE 21.1 - Kelsey Creek Bridge Approach Repair (City of Bellevue)
- CEE 21.2 - Green Stormwater Infrastructure Development (King County)
- CEE 21.3 - Home for Underprivileged Children in Medellin Columbia (KPFF - Fundacion Joven)
- CEE 21.4 - Assessment of Steel Structures in South Seattle Substation (Seattle City Light)
- CEE 21.5 - Snohomish County Trout Creek Bridge #494 Replacement (Snohomish County)
- ENSC 21.1 - Evaluating the Feasibility of Using Large Wood in Duwamish River Restoration (USFS)
- CEE 20.1 - The BLOCK Project (BLOCK Architects)
- CEE 20.2 - APTsorb Media Design Guidelines (Catchment Solutions)
- CEE 20.3 - Covington Water District’s 600/650 Zones Water System Evaluation (Covington/Kennedy Jenks)
- CEE 20.4 - Seismic Assessment and Retrofit for the Cedar Falls Powerhouse (Seattle City Light)
- CEE 20.5 - Barr Creek Bridge #158 Replacement (Snohomish County Public Works)
- ENSC 20.1 - Monitoring Instream Habitat Change after Large Wood Augmentation, Swauk Creek, Washington (McKinstry)
- ENSC 20.2 - Integrating Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services to Improve Aquatic Habitat (US Forest Service)