About Us Civil Engineering at PittThe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers six different curricular programs, five of which are heavily involved in research. Choose a program and you can focus on:
William Hunter Dammond
Dammond is remembered as a noted engineer, professor, inventor, and mathematical genius whose achievements included noteworthy contributions to the railroad industry-a major American industry that employed large numbers African Americans. The Testimony of William Hunter DammondR.C. Barksdale-Hall, Pitt Campaign Chronicle, February 5, 2001 |
William Hunter Dammond earned a degree in civil engineering
(with honors) and became the first African American graduate of the University
of Pittsburgh.
Civil Engineering
The Department of Civil Engineering is one of the oldest in the nation.
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