Northwestern Civil and Environmental Engineering: Systems Thinking to Address Systems Challenges
Civil and environmental engineers made our cities livable. Their present challenge is to make our cities and environments robust to all the challenges of modern society. Northwestern’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is addressing systemic challenges that affect every aspect of modern life with a systems thinking approach that promotes collaboration among our faculty and students, as well as across disciplines. Learn more about our work and research in material systems, ecosystems, urban systems, and human systems