Civil Engineer Collegiate Program - You may apply for Officer Candidate School (OCS) up to three years before you receive your bachelor's degree or up to one year before completing your master's degree. If selected, you'll be placed on active reserve duty as a Baccalaureate Degree Completion Program or Civil Engineer Corps collegiate and receive more than $1,600 per month while completing your studies. You can earn up to $60,000 during your sophomore, junior, and senior years while receiving many benefits enjoyed by regular Navy personnel, including 30 days vacation earned each year. Following college graduation, you'll receive military training at Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Fla., and earn your commission as a naval officer.
Civil Engineer Corps Officer School - Located in Port Hueneme, Calif., Civil Engineer Corps Officer School provides you training you'll need as a new Civil Engineer Corps officer in your first assignment. Areas include management, military readiness, military justice, personnel administration and courses deemed necessary to prepare you to work in contract management, public works/facilities management and construction battalions.
Advanced Education and Training. As a Civil Engineer Corps officer, you'll have many opportunities to develop your professional skills through courses offered by the Civil Engineer Corps School and Naval Facilities Contract Training Center. Fully funded postgraduate education at a variety of civilian universities allows you to earn a master's degree in a variety of engineering-related fields or a financial management degree at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. You also could receive advanced military education through service colleges such as the Naval War College, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the National War College.
Locations of initial fleet assignments. Upon graduation from CECOS, new officers are assigned an initial tour of duty with a Construction Battalion, Public Works, or a Construction Contract Administration activity. This duty assignment of two or three years serves to introduce the individual to the CEC community and provides valuable experience in construction management and techniques. After this first tour of duty, or more typically after a second tour in a second specialty, career-oriented officers are eligible for graduate school. Those qualified individuals selected for the OFP attend one of several Navy-approved post-graduate schools offering a Masters degree in Ocean Engineering and earn an 1103P subspecialty code.
Special pay/bonuses. None.
Basic eligibility requirements. A Civil Engineer Corps officer must:
- be a U.S. citizen.
- be at least 19 and under 35 when commissioned.
- possess, or be in pursuit of, an accredited engineering degree, preferably in civil, mechanical or electrical engineering, or an accredited architecture degree.
- be physically qualified by Naval standards.
