Learn to design and build the world around you.
We rely on civil engineers to build our bridges, dams, highways, transit networks, airports, tunnels, water systems, industrial and commercial buildings, and to protect our environment. As a civil engineer, you will be faced with creating innovative ways to build and improve infrastructure in the face of climate change and increasing urbanization. Santa Clara prepares you to meet this challenge.
Our curriculum combines a unique balance of the practical aspects of engineering with a strong theoretical foundation. The curriculum covers environmental, structural, construction, geotechnical, transportation, and water resources engineering. You'll find small classes complemented by hands-on projects, time in the lab and field trips.
Faculty members are active scholars as well as practicing engineers. You'll go to them for advice and mentorship; and there will be several opportunities to develp camaraderie during regular department events.
For undergraduates, we offer a B.S. degree, as well as a combined B.S./M.S. five-year program. Graduate students can focus on structural engineering, general civil engineering, or construction management in pursuit of their M.S. degree.
Submissions from 2021
Towards smallholder food and water security: Climate variability in the context of multiple livelihood hazards in Nicaragua, Christopher M. Bacon, William A. Sundstrom, Iris Stewart-Frey, Edwin P. Maurer, and Lisa C. Kelley
Submissions from 2018
Adjusting Flood Peak Frequency Changes to Account for Climate Change Impacts in the Western United States, Edwin P. Maurer, Gretchen Kayser, Laura Doyle, and Andrew W. Wood
Submissions from 2017
Climate variability and vadose zone controls on damping of transient recharge, Claudia R. Corona, Jason J. Gurdak, Jesse E. Dickinson, T.P.A. Ferré, and Edwin P. Maurer
Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Water Supply Reliability for Santa Clara County, California, Kayden Haleakala, Edwin P. Maurer, and Samantha Greene
Projected 21st-century changes in the Central American mid-summer drought using statistically downscaled climate projections, Edwin P. Maurer, Nicholas Roby, Iris T. Stewart-Frey, and Christopher M. Bacon
Submissions from 2016
Climate change and the Delta, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, Michael D. Dettinger, Jamie Anderson, Michael L. Anderson, Larry R. Brown, Daniel R. Cayan, and Edwin P. Maurer
Assessing differences in snowmelt-dependent hydrologic projections using CMIP3 and CMIP5 climate forcing data for the western United States, Darren L. Ficklin, Sally L. Letsinger, Iris T. Stewart-Frey, and Edwin P. Maurer
Technical Note: The impact of spatial scale in bias correction of climate model output for hydrologic impact studies, Edwin P. Maurer, Darren L. Ficklin, and W. Wang
Submissions from 2015
Improved Bias Correction Techniques for Hydrological Simulations of Climate Change, David W. Pierce, Daniel R. Cayan, Edwin P. Maurer, John T. Abatzoglou, and Katherine C. Hegewisch
Submissions from 2014
Climate change and stream temperature projections in the Columbia River basin: habitat implications of spatial variation in hydrologic drivers, Darren L. Ficklin, B. L. Barnhart, J. H. Knouft, Iris T. Stewart-Frey, Edwin P. Maurer, Sally L. Letsinger, and G. W. Whittaker
The Effectiveness Of Sustainable Floating Structures In The Gulf Region (Middle East), Amin Ghafooripour, E. Nezamifar, O. Ogwuda, and M. Sun
An Enhanced Archive Facilitating Climate Impacts and Adaptation Analysis, Edwin P. Maurer, Levi Brekke, Tom Pruitt, Bridget Thrasher, J. Long, Philip B. Duffy, Michael D. Dettinger, Daniel R. Cayan, and James W. Arnold
Bias correction can modify climate model simulated precipitation changes without adverse effect on the ensemble mean, Edwin P. Maurer and David W. Pierce
Submissions from 2013
Snowpack and runoff response to climate change in Owens Valley and Mono Lake watersheds, Mariza Costa-Cabral, Sujoy B. Roy, Edwin P. Maurer, William B. Mills, and Limin Chen
Increases in Flood Magnitudes in California Under Warming Climates, Tapash Das, Edwin P. Maurer, David W. Pierce, Michael D. Dettinger, and Daniel R. Cayan
Using a Gridded Global Dataset to Characterize Regional Hydroclimate in Central Chile, E.M.C. Demaria, Edwin P. Maurer, J. Sheffield, E. Bustos, D. Poblete, S. Vicuña, and F. Meza
Climate change impacts on an alpine watershed in Chile: Do new model projections change the story?, E.M.C. Demaria, Edwin P. Maurer, Bridget Thrasher, S. Vicuña, and F.J. Meza
Climate Change Impacts on Streamflow and Subbasin- Scale Hydrology in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Darren L. Ficklin, Edwin P. Maurer, and Iris T. Stewert
Effects of climate change on stream temperature, dissolved oxygen, and sediment concentration in the Sierra Nevada in California, Darren L. Ficklin, Iris T. Stewart-Frey, and Edwin P. Maurer
Effects of projected climate change on the hydrology in the Mono Lake Basin, California, Darren L. Ficklin, Iris T. Stewart-Frey, and Edwin P. Maurer
Making Climate Data Relevant to Decision Making: The important details of Spatial and Temporal Downscaling, Evan H. Girvetz, Edwin P. Maurer, Philip B. Duffy, Aaron Ruesch, Bridget Thrasher, and Chris Zganjar
A Long-Term Hydrologically Based Dataset of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States: Update and Extensions, Ben Livneh, Eric A. Rosenberg, Chiyu Lin, Bart Nijssen, Vimal Mishra, Kostas M. Andreadis, Edwin P. Maurer, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Errors in climate model daily precipitation and temperature output: time invariance and implications for bias correction, Edwin P. Maurer, Tapash Das, and Daniel R. Cayan
The Key Role of Heavy Precipitation Events in Climate Model Disagreements of Future Annual Precipitation Changes in California, David W. Pierce, Daniel R. Cayan, Tapash Das, Edwin P. Maurer, Norman L. Miller, Yan Bao, M. Kanamitsu, Kei Yoshimura, Mark A. Snyder, Lisa C. Sloan, Guido Franco, and Mary Tyree
Probabilistic estimates of future changes in California temperature and precipitation usingstatistical and dynamical downscaling, David W. Pierce, Tapash Das, Daniel R. Cayan, Edwin P. Maurer, Norman L. Miller, Yan Bao, M. Kanamitsu, Kei Yoshimura, Mark A. Snyder, Lisa C. Sloan, Guido Franco, and Mary Tyree
Tools for Assessing Climate Impacts on Fish and Wildlife, Chad B. Wilsey, Joshua J. Lawler, Edwin P. Maurer, Donald McKenzie, Patricia A. Townsend, Richard Gwozdz, James A. Freund, Keala Hagmann, and Karen M. Hutten
Submissions from 2012
Low-Tech Coconut Shell Activated Charcoal Production, Ami Cobb, Mikel Warms, Edwin P. Maurer, and Steven Chiesa
Slope Stability of the Design Concept of the Sheet Pile and Contiguous Bored Pile Walls, Koohyar Faizi, Ramli Nazir, Khairul Anuar Kassim, T. Loon, Behnam Adhami, Amin Ghafooripour, and Hossein Moayedi
Development and application of a hydroclimatological stream temperature model within the Soil and Water Assessment Tool, Darren L. Ficklin, Yuzhou Luo, Iris T. Stewart-Frey, and Edwin P. Maurer
Projections of 21st Century Sierra Nevada Local Hydrologic Flow Components Using an Ensemble of General Circulation Models, Darren L. Ficklin, Iris T. Stewart-Frey, and Edwin P. Maurer
The Role of Geosynthetics in Slope Stability, Hamed Niroumand, Khairul Anuar Kassim, Amin Ghafooripour, and Ramli Nazir
Performance of Helical Anchors in Sand, Hamed Niroumand, Khairul Anuar Kassim, Amin Ghafooripour, Ramli Nazir, and H. S. Chuan
Investigation of Slope Failures in Soil Mechanics, Hamed Niroumand, Khairul Anuar Kassim, Amin Ghafooripour, Ramli Nazir, and Sayyed Yaghoub Zolfeghari Far
Uplift Capacity of Enlarged Base Piles in Sand, Hamed Niroumand, Khairul Anuar Kassim, Amin Ghafooripour, Ramli Nazir, and T. G. Hu
Numerical Simulation of Buried Pipe under Wheel Loads, Hamed Niroumand, Khairul Anuar Kassim, Ramli Nazir, Koohyar Faizi, R. Hainin, Behnam Adhami, Amin Ghafooripour, and Hossein Moayedi
Projecting Water Withdrawal and Supply for Future Decades in the U.S. under Climate Change Scenarios, Sujoy B. Roy, Limin Chen, Evan H. Girvetz, Edwin P. Maurer, William B. Mills, and Thomas M. Grieb
Technical Note: Bias correcting climate model simulated daily temperature extremes with quantile mapping, Bridget Thrasher, Edwin P. Maurer, Philip B. Duffy, and Colin McKellar
Submissions from 2011
Guidelines for constructing climate scenarios, Philip Mote, Levi D. Brekke, Philip B. Duffy, and Edwin P. Maurer
Submissions from 2010
Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change: Small Mammal Migration Pathways in the Great Lakes States, Karen E. Francl, Katharine Hayhoe, Margaret Saunders, and Edwin P. Maurer
Contrasting lumped and distributed hydrology models for estimating climate change impacts on California watersheds, Edwin P. Maurer, Levi D. Brekke, and Tom Pruitt
The utility of daily large-scale climate data in the assessment of climate change impacts on daily streamflow in California, Edwin P. Maurer, H. G. Hidalgo, T. Das, M. D. Dettinger, and D. R. Cayan
Evaluating Sustainability of Projected Water Demands Under Future Climate Change Scenarios, Sujoy R. Roy, Limin Chen, Evan Girvetz, Edwin P. Maurer, William B. Mills, and Thomas M. Grieb
Climate change impacts on water demand and salinity in California's irrigated agriculture, Gerrit Schoups, Edwin P. Maurer, and Jan Hopmans
Basin-scale water system operations with uncertain future climate conditions: Methodology and case studies, Sebastian Vicuna, John A. Dracup, Jay R. Lund, Larry L. Dale, and Edwin P. Maurer
Submissions from 2009
Damage detection in jacket type offshore platforms using modal strain energy, B. Asgarian, M. Amiri, and Amin Ghafooripour
Assessing reservoir operations risk under climate change, Levi D. Brekke, Edwin P. Maurer, Jamie D. Anderson, Michael D. Dettinger, and Edwin S. Townsley
Climate change scenarios and sea level rise estimates for the California 2008 Climate Change Scenarios Assessment, Daniel R. Cayan, Mary Tyree, Michael D. Dettinger, Hugo Hildago, Tapash Das, Edwin P. Maurer, Peter Bromirski, Nicholas Graham, and Reinhard Flick
Applied Climate-Change Analysis: The Climate Wizard Tool, Evan H. Girvetz, Chris Zganjar, George T. Raber, Edwin P. Maurer, Peter Kareiva, and Joshua J. Lawler
Projected climate-induced faunal change in the western hemisphere, Joshua J. Lawler, Sarah L. Shafer, Denis White, Peter Kareiva, Edwin P. Maurer, Andrew R. Blaustein, and Patrick J. Bartlein
Observed 1970-2005 cooling of summer daytime temperatures in coastal California, Bereket Lebassi, Jorge González González, Drazen Fabris, Edwin P. Maurer, Norman L. Miller, Cristina Milesi, Paul Switzer, and Robert Bornstein
Climate model based consensus on the hydrologic impacts of climate change to the Rio Lempa basin of Central America, Edwin P. Maurer
Water for Life: A Journey to Nicaragua Exploring Sustainable Development, Edwin P. Maurer
Using synoptic-scale land surface moisture indices for hydrologic prediction, Andrew Wood and Edwin P. Maurer
Submissions from 2008
Significance of model credibility in estimating climate projection distributions for regional hydroclimatological risk assessments, Levi D. Brekke, Michael D. Dettinger, Edwin P. Maurer, and Michael L. Anderson
Climate change scenarios for the California region, Daniel R. Cayan, Edwin P. Maurer, Michael D. Dettinger, Mary Tyree, and Katharine Hayhoe
Regional climate change projections for the Northeast USA, Katharine Hayhoe, Cameron Wake, Bruce Anderson, Xin-Zhong Liang, Edwin P. Maurer, Jinhong Zhu, James Bradbury, Art DeGaetano, Anne Marie Stoner, and Donald Wuebbles
Impact of Climate Change on Irrigation Water Availability, Crop Water Requirements and Soil Salinity in the SJV, CA, Jan Hopmans and Edwin P. Maurer
Utility of daily vs. monthly large-scale climate data: an intercomparison of two statistical downscaling methods, Edwin P. Maurer and Hugo G. Hidalgo
Submissions from 2007
Dependency of COD on ground motion intensity and stiffness distribution, Mark Aschheim, Edwin P. Maurer, and JoAnn Browning
Uncertainty in hydrologic impacts of climate change in the Sierra Nevada, California under two emissions scenarios, Edwin P. Maurer
Fine-Resolution climate projections enhance regional climate change impact studies, Edwin P. Maurer, Levi Brekke, Tom Pruitt, and Philip P. Duffy
Detection, attribution, and sensitivity of trends toward earlier streamflow in the Sierra Nevada, Edwin P. Maurer, Iris T. Stewart-Frey, Celine Bonfils, Philip B. Duffy, and Daniel R. Cayan
The sensitivity of California water resources to climate change scenarios, Sebastian Vicuña, Edwin P. Maurer, Brian Joyce, John A. Dracup, and David Purkey
Submissions from 2006
A spatially distributed model for the dynamic prediction of sediment erosion and transport in mountainous forested watersheds, Colleen O. Doten, Laura C. Bowling, Jordan S. Lanini, Edwin P. Maurer, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Climate scenarios for California, Edwin P. Maurer, Michael Dettinger, Daniel Cayan, Mary Tyree, Katherine Hayhoe, Celine Bonfils, Philip B. Duffy, and Benjamin Santer
Amplification of streamflow impacts of El Niño by increased atmospheric greenhouse gases, Edwin P. Maurer, Seran Gibbard, and Philip B. Duffy
Using Radar Data to Partition Precipitation into Rain and Snow in a Hydrologic Model, Edwin P. Maurer and Clifford Mass
Submissions from 2005
Uncertainty in projections of streamflow changes due to climate change in California, Edwin P. Maurer and Philip B. Duffy
Detection time for plausible changes in annual precipitation, evapotranspiration, and streamflow in three Mississippi River sub-basins, Alan D. Ziegler, Edwin P. Maurer, Justin Sheffield, Bart Nijssen, Eric F. Wood, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Submissions from 2004
Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California, Katherine Hayhoe, Daniel Cayan, Christopher B. Field, Peter C. Frumhoff, Edwin P. Maurer, Norman L. Miller, Susanne C. Moser, Stephen H. Schneider, Kimberly Nicholas Cahill, Elsa E. Cleland, Larry Dale, Ray Drapek, R. Hanemann, Laurence S. Kalkstein, James Lenihan, Claire K. Lunch, Ronald P. Nielson, Scott C. Sheridan, and Julia H. Verville
Potential effects of long-lead hydrologic predictability on Missouri River main-stem reservoirs, Edwin P. Maurer and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Variability and potential sources of predictability of North American runoff, Edwin P. Maurer, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, and Nathan J. Mantua
Submissions from 2003
Predictability of seasonal runoff in the Mississippi River basin, Edwin P. Maurer and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Evaluation of the Snow-Covered Area Data Product from MODIS, Edwin P. Maurer, Joshua D. Rhoads, Ralph O. Dubayah, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
GCIP water and energy budget synthesis (WEBS), J. Roads, R. Lawford, E. Bainto, E. Berbery, S. Chen, B. Fekete, K. Gallo, A. Grundstein, W. Higgins, M. Kanamitsu, W. Krajewski, V. Lakshmi, D. Leathers, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, L. Luo, Edwin P. Maurer, T. Meyers, D. Miller, K. Mitchell, T. Mote, R. Pinker, T. Reichler, D. Robinson, A. Robock, J. Smith, G. Srinivasan, K. Verdin, K. Vinnikov, T. Vonder Haar, C. Vörösmarty, S. Williams, and E. Yarosh
Submissions from 2002
A Long-Term Hydrologically-Based Data Set of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States, Edwin P. Maurer, A. W. Wood, J. C. Adam, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, and B. Nijssen
Long range experimental hydrologic forecasting for the eastern U.S., Andrew W. Wood, Edwin P. Maurer, Arun Kumar, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Detection of intensification of the global water cycle: the potential role of FRIEND, Alan D. Zeigler, Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood, Bart Nijssen, Edwin P. Maurer, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Submissions from 2001
Evaluation of the Land Surface Water Budget in NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/DOE Reanalyses using an Off-line Hydrologic Model, Edwin P. Maurer, Greg M. O'Donnell, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Submissions from 2000
Use of Reanalysis Land Surface Water Budget Variables in Hydrologic Studies, Edwin P. Maurer, B. Nijssen, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Submissions from 1996
A Simplified Model for Predicting Transmission Losses in a Stream Channel, Chris X. Rao and Edwin P. Maurer
Submissions from 1990
Assessing the costs of adapting to sea-level rise: a case study of San Francisco Bay, Peter H. Gleick and Edwin P. Maurer
