Civil and Environmental Engineering M.S.

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This research degree is open to students with undergraduate degrees in engineering or the physical or natural sciences. In addition to the satisfactory completion of an approved set of advanced courses, candidates for this degree must complete a six-credit thesis.

This thesis must provide documentation of an independent research-related effort and be approved by the student’s faculty adviser. Listed below are recommended core courses in each of the five civil engineering areas of concentration and in Environmental Engineering. M.S. candidates typically take all the courses listed below in their chosen area of concentration.

Geotechnical Engineering

CIVL 6450 - Structural Dynamics Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6510 - Advanced Soil Mechanics Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6520 - Advanced Foundations and Earth Structures Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6540 - Dynamics of Soil and Soil-Foundation Systems Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6550 - Advanced Geoenvironmental Engineering Credit Hours: 3

Structural Engineering

CIVL 4440 - Advanced Structural Analysis Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6310 - Advanced Concrete Structures Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6320 - Advanced Steel Design Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6450 - Structural Dynamics Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6490 - Earthquake Engineering Credit Hours: 3

Transportation Engineering

CIVL 6220 - Critical Issues in Transportation Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6230 - Transportation Economics Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6240 - Intelligent Transportation Systems Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6250 - Transportation Systems Planning Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6260 - Transportation Network Analysis Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6270 - Traffic Control and Simulation Credit Hours: 3
CIVL 6280 - Dynamic Traffic Models Credit Hours: 3

Environmental Engineering

CIVL 6550 - Advanced Geoenvironmental Engineering Credit Hours: 3
ENVE 4110 - Aqueous Geochemistry Credit Hours: 4
ENVE 6110 - Advanced Groundwater Hydrology Credit Hours: 3
ENVE 6140 - Stream Pollution Control Credit Hours: 3
ENVE 6230 - Mathematical Modeling of Environmental Engineering Systems Credit Hours: 3

Additional Requirements

M.S. students and Ph.D. students in Civil Engineering are required to take CIVL 6900 Civil Engineering Graduate Seminar once. Course work only M.E. students are not required to take CIVL 6900. M.S. candidates in the environmental engineering discipline are also required to take additional courses in geochemistry and/or separations processes selected in consultation with his/her adviser.

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