The department has 48 tenured/tenure-track faculty and 21 emeritus faculty members, many of whom actively engaged with the department. Additionally, the department has 26 other faculty members which includes professors of practice, research faculty and administrative faculty. The department also is supported by 18 staff members. Three faculty are members of the National Academy of Engineering, one is a member of the National Academy of Science, two are members of the National Academy of Construction, and ten hold prestigious named professorships. Fifteen members of the faculty have been awarded Presidential Young Investigator, National Young Investigator, or CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation. Two have been awarded the prestigious PECASE Award and seven have been awarded the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award. Faculty members within the department have received numerous national and regional awards for their teaching, research, scholarship and outreach activities. For the civil engineering degrees, students may emphasize one or more of 10 discipline areas available for graduate study within the Department: civil engineering materials, civil infrastructure engineering, construction engineering and management, environmental engineering, geospatial engineering, geotechnical engineering, sustainable land development engineering, water resources engineering, structural engineering, and transportation engineering. A minor may also be taken in one or more of the alternate branches of engineering or in an allied field, such as mathematics, engineering mechanics, chemistry, geology, or urban and regional studies.