[Magued Iskander, Professor and Chair, Department
of Civil and Urban Engineering]
You think of us as civil engineers, as ones who work
on structures only, but we work on many other things.
We give you transportation infrastructure
that makes the cities that we work in operate.
We give you cleaner and healthier environments.
We give you smarter and more sustainable cities.
Our graduates help build iconic structures, ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Second Avenue subway.
We are really instrumental in making 
New York City run and the world run.
Our department has been involved in rewriting the building code, the first major revision
in the 20th century in 1960. And even today,
we are involved with helping New York City
reduce greenhouse emissions from heating fuel.
Information technology plays an important 
role in what we do.
For example, we have a
federal center, C2SMART.
We use augmented and virtual reality in our research on construction. We have recently added a faculty member
that deals with construction robotics. We play an important role in advancing construction materials.
Our research on transparent soils
is world-famous for using artificial materials
representing natural soil, for studying soil
structure interaction, and most recently we've
started working with artificial intelligence
in geotechnical engineering.
Being a student at NYU, you benefit from being a student at the first global network university.
We have three portal campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi,
and Shanghai where degrees are offered.
Students are encouraged to spend a semester overseas.
Our students are acing all student competitions in the metropolitan region.
We have been winning the ASCE concrete canoe competitions for a very long time.
Our canoes actually have been
so advanced they caused ASCE to change the
rules, to start using sustainable materials
as part of the design.
Many of our students end up with career opportunities in New York City, and in fact I would say that nearly
every undergraduate student interns in the
civil engineering industry through connections
to another alumni or student.
Increasingly, virtual reality is being used for design,
and some of our faculty are working on utilizing
virtual reality for design and construction.
Our graduate students and faculty are looking
into ways in which artificial intelligence
can be used to solve longstanding engineering
problems. The cities of tomorrow are going
to be very different than the cities that
we live in today. They are going to involve
significantly more technology, on average,
than we've been using for now.
This is an incredibly exciting time to be a civil engineer.
We invite you to join us in New York, the
most vibrant city in the world. Thank you
for your interest in NYU.
