Civil engineering is one of the basic branches of engineering, whose scope expands to include many aspects of modern life. It treats the problems of designing and analyzing civil facilities such as housing, schools, and dwellings, and also addresses the problems of the infrastructure of the contemporary city, which include building roads, building bridges, airports, railways, traffic management and networks Water and sewage, and one of the areas that civil engineering addresses is also environmental problems and their preservation, such as sewage treatment methods, studying environmental pollution and ways to mitigate it and building dams, drilling wells, canals, engineering projects and solid waste management, and the civil engineer is the specialist who qualifies To address these problems trying to find appropriate and economic solutions to them.
Allowing the Palestinian student to study civil engineering in his country and his local environment prepares the future engineer to deal directly and correctly with the problems of his country in a manner commensurate with the reality in which he lives and contributes to the conscious transfer of civilization and global technology.
The study of civil engineering depends on academic lectures, laboratory experiments, and training in workshops and laboratories so that the student learns the theoretical foundations and is trained in the practical application so that he acquires the necessary skills that qualify him to work and practice the profession.
The Civil Engineering Department includes qualified professors with high experience in all fields. The department also contains several laboratories, including the soil, concrete, road, and survey laboratory, which support the theoretical study with practical experiments, in addition to its important role in providing the needs of society in this field.
The department conducts research and technical studies in many scientific and experimental fields to serve the community by cooperation with many official institutions, government ministries, and some private institutions.