.. ) The aim of this study has been to investigate the English language needs of civil engineering students in Bahir Dar, University. Fourth year 40 civil engineering students, 20 civil engineering instructors, and three English course instructors have been taken for the study. •: Both open-ended and close-ended questionnaire, semi-structured interview, and document, . . .... analysis were the instruments employed to collect the data. These data collection instruments were referring to students' English language needs, their lacks. their perceptions of..· the usefulness of the English courses they have taken and their course type preferences to take. Descriptive statistics had been employed in analyzing the raw data. ' Comprehensive sampling was used as the population is small. The results show that . listening, writing, and reading have been chosen to be the most frequently used skills though other skills have been chosen to be used too. Listening_ skills, language functions, and \ reading skills have been chosen to be the most important skills to learn. Vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar have been chosen by students as language areas where students are weak in, and one of the interviewee added speaking skill which students are weak in too. Both students and language teachers understood the need for specific Jinglish course. From the three English courses, Technical Report Writing and Communication - Skills are perceived to be use[ul for students, where as, students perceived Sophomore . . _,:;;--- Abstract English to be less useful. Students have also indicated that they prefer to take specific English course designedfor engineering discipline.