Master of Science
The Master of Science in civil engineering is a broad-based curriculum designed to prepare students for advanced positions in civil engineering industry, consulting and public agencies, as well as for further graduate studies. Students can choose one of the following:
- Thesis option: 24 hours of coursework and 6 hours of thesis
- Project option: 28 hours of coursework and 2 hours of project
- Online degree: 30 hours of coursework and a final exam
Areas of specialization
Students can puruse one of the following areas of specialization.
Course requirements for specialization in environmental engineering. Re-approved by faculty on May 9, 2022.
Core courses (minimum of 9 credit hours required):
Core courses (minimum of 9 credit hours required):
- CE 762 – Water Treatment Processes
- CE 766 – Wastewater Engineering: Biological Processes
- CE 861 – Environmental Engineering Chemistry
- CE 816 – Fate and Transport Processes*
- CE 654 – Design of Groundwater Flow Systems
- CE 751 – Hydraulics of Open Channels
- CE 816C - Environmental Biotechnology I*
- CE 816V - Sustainable Resource Recovery Technologies*
- CE 854 – Analysis of Groundwater Flow
- CE 866 – Advanced Wastewater Treatment
- CE 967 – Physicochemical Processes
Environmental engineering electives:
- CE 625 – Principles of Geoenvironmental Engineering
- CE 752 - Advanced Hydrology
- CE 790 - Problems in Civil Engineering
- CE 816 - Selected Topics in Civil Engineering
- CE 916 - Advanced Topics in Civil Engineering
- BAE 651 – Air Pollution Engineering
- BAE 665 – Ecological Engineering Design
- BAE 669 - Watershed Modeling
- BAE 869 - Advanced Watershed Modeling
- CHE 642 - Fundamentals of Conversion of Biorenewable Resources
- CHE 663 - Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment
- CHE 715 - Biochemical Engineering
- CHE 725 - Biotransport Phenomena
- CHE 862 - Advanced Transport Phenomena I
- CHE 867 - Advanced Transport Phenomena II
- AGRON 605 - Soil and Environmental Chemistry
- AGRON 905 - Advanced Soil Chemistry
- AGRON 816 - Soil Physics
- AGRON 901 - Environmental Instrumentation
- BIOL 612 - Freshwater Ecology
- BIOL 818 - Advanced Aquatic Ecology
- BIOL 826 - Nutrient Dynamics
- GEOG 508 - Geographic Information Systems I
- GEOG 608 - Geographic Information Systems II
- GEOL 650 - Geomicrobiology
- GEOL 711 - Water Resources Geochemistry
- GEOL 790 - Biogeochemical Reaction Modeling*
- GEOL 870 - Groundwater Contaminant Remediation
- GRAD 740 - Water and Society: Interdisciplinary Foundation
- MATH 632 - Elementary Partial Differential Equations
- MATH 655 - Elementary Numerical Analysis I
- MATH 656 - Elementary Numerical Analysis II
- STAT 704 - Analysis of Variance
- STAT 705 - Regression and Correlation Analyses
- STAT 716 - Nonparametric Statistics
- STAT 880 - Time Series Analysis
Course requirements for specialization in geotechnical engineering. Re-approved by faculty on May 9, 2022.
Program of study must include a minimum of 15 credit hours in Civil Engineering. Other suggested electives may be selected with the approval of the student’s advisory committee.
Core courses (minimum of 9 credit hours required):
**Cross listed with ME 802.
Program of study must include a minimum of 15 credit hours in Civil Engineering. Other suggested electives may be selected with the approval of the student’s advisory committee.
Core courses (minimum of 9 credit hours required):
- CE 728 Advanced Geotechnical Design
- CE 822 Shear Strength and Slope Stability of Soils
- CE 824 Strength and Deformation of Geo-Materials
- CE 828 Advanced Seepage and Settlement Analysis in Soils
- CE 774 Pavement Design
- CE 803 Num and Analytic Tech for Engr
- CE 827 Computational applications in geo-systems
- CE 816-C Deep Foundation Design
Suggested electives*:
- AGRON 816 Soil Physics
- AGRON 916 Adv Soil Physics
- CE 654 Design of Groundwater Flow Sys
- CE 680 Economics of Design and Construction
- CE 741 Civil Engineering Materials II
- CE 802 Adv. Mech. Mat. & Applied Elasticity**
- CE 837 Structural Stability
- CE 854 Analysis of Groundwater Flow
- GEOL 630 Stratigraphy – Sedimentation
- GEOL 743 Introduction to Geophysics
- GEOL 745 Exploration Geophysics
- GEOL 880 Clay Mineralogy
- MATH 632 Elementary Partial Diff. Equations
- MATH 635 Dynamics, Chaos, and Fractals
- ME 836 Intro to Fracture Mechanics
- ME 862 Finite Elements
- ME 902 Theory of Plasticity
- STAT 705 Regression and Analysis of Variance
- STAT 713 Applied Linear Statistical Methods
**Cross listed with ME 802.
Course requirements for specialization in structural engineering. Re-approved by faculty on May 9, 2022.
Program of Study must include a minimum of 15 credit hours in Civil Engineering.
Core courses (minimum of 9 credit hours required):
approval of the major advisor and supervisory committee.
**CE 802 and ME 802 are cross listed.
Program of Study must include a minimum of 15 credit hours in Civil Engineering.
Core courses (minimum of 9 credit hours required):
- CE 732 - Advanced Str Anal I
- CE 742 - Advanced Steel Design
- CE 743 - Advanced R/C Theory
- CE 802 - Advanced Mech of Materials
- CE 741 - Civil Engg Materials II
- CE 745 - Structural Dynamics
- CE 833 - Advanced Str Anal II
- CE 834 - Str Dsgn of Conc with FRP
- CE 837 - Structural Stability
- CE 844 - Prestressed Conc Design
- CE 803 - Numerical and Analytic Techniques for Engineers
- MATH 551 - Applied Matrix Theory
- MATH 632 - Elem Part Diff Equations
Suggested electives*:
- ARE 722 - Bildg Loads & Compt Aided Str Analysis & Dsgn
- ARE 723 - Timber Structures
- ARE 725 - Cold-Formed Steel Design
- ARE 726 - Masonry Structural Design
- ARE 729 - Building Seismic Design
- CE 680 - Economics of Des & Constr
- CE 690 - Precast Concrete Building Design
- CE 728 - Adv Geotechnical Design
- CE 822 - Shear Strength and Slope Stability
- CE 816-B - Abaqus Applications in Geo-systems
- CIS 635 - Intro to Computer Based Knowledge Systems
- CIS 730 - Principles of Artificial Intelligence
- EECE 670 - Engg Appl of Machine Intelligence
- IMSE 822 - Advanced Engg Economy
- MATH - 630 Intro to Complex Analysis
- MATH - 633 Advanced Calculus I
- ME 610 - Intro to Finite Elements
- ME 651 - Intro to Composites
- ME 738 - Experimental Stress Analysis
- ME 760 - Engineering Analysis I
- ME 831 - Boundary Layer Theory
- ME 836 - Introduction to Fracture Mechanics
- ME 862 - Finite Elements
- ME 871 - Mechanics of CompositeMaterials
approval of the major advisor and supervisory committee.
**CE 802 and ME 802 are cross listed.
Course requirements for specialization in transportation engineering. Re-approved by faculty on May 9, 2022.
Required courses:
Students should choose at least one course from each of the following areas, or 9-12 hrs. in one option area. Other option electives may be selected with the approval of the student's advisory committee.
Required courses:
- CE 774 Pavement Design
CE 775 Traffic Engg.
CE 786 Land Devt for CEs and Plnrs
Students should choose at least one course from each of the following areas, or 9-12 hrs. in one option area. Other option electives may be selected with the approval of the student's advisory committee.
Planning option:
- CE 680 Econ of Des and Constr
- CE 771 Travel Demand Modeling
- CE 872 Transportation Safety
- CE 874 Sustainable Transp. Asset Mgmt
- CE 816 Advanced Topics (Var)
- ECON 631 Principles of Transp
- GEOG 608 Geographic Info Systems II
- IMSE 850 Ergonomics (Human Factors) Eng
- PLAN 667 Transportation Planning
- STAT 705 Regression and Analysis of Var
- STAT 710 Sample Survey Methods
- CE 680 Econ of Des and Constr
- CE 771 Travel Demand Modeling
- CE 816 Advanced Topics (Var)
- CE 872 Transportation Safety Traffic
- CE 875 Flow Theory
- CE 874 Sustainable Transp. Asset Mgmt
- ECON 631 Principles of Transportation
- IMSE 560 Intro to Op Res I
- IMSE 850 Ergonomics (Human Factors) Eng.
- IMSE 881 Linear Programming
- PLAN 667 Transportation Planning
- STAT 705 Regression and Analysis of Var
- STAT 710 Sample Survey Methods
- CE 680 Econ of Des and Constr
- CE 771 Travel Demand Modeling
- CE 728 Adv Geotech Design
- CE 751 Hydraulics Open Channels
- CE 822 Shear Str & Slope Stability
- CE 844 Prestressed Concrete Des
- CE 872 Transportation Safety
- CE 874 Sustainable Transp. Asset Mgmt
- CE 816 Advanced Topics (Var)
- IMSE 850 Ergonomics (Human Factors) Eng
- PLAN 667 Transportation Planning
- STAT 705 Regression and Analysis of Var
- STAT 710 Sample Survey Methods
- CE 641 CE Materials I
- CE 680 Econ of Des and Constr
- CE 728 Adv Geotech Design
- CE 741 CE Materials II
- CE 773 Hot Mix Asphalt Design
- CE 777 PCC Pavements
- CE 822 Shear Str & Slope Stability
- CE 802 Adv Mechanics of Materials
- CE 828 Adv Soil Mechanics
- CE 816 Advanced Topics (Var)
- CE 874 Sustainable Transp. Asset Mgmt
- ME 862 Finite Elements
- STAT 705 Regression and Analysis of Var
- STAT 710 Sample Survey Methods
- STAT 720 Design of Experiments
Course requirements for specialization in water resources engineering. Re-approved by faculty on May 9, 2022.
Core courses (minimum of 9 credit hours required):
Core courses (minimum of 9 credit hours required):
- CE 654 - Design of Groundwater Flow Systems
- CE 751 - Hydraulics of Open Channels
- CE 752 - Advanced Hydrology
- CE 803 - Numerical and Analytic Techniques for Engineers
- CE 625 - Principles of Geoenvironmental Engineering
- CE 725 - Seepage in Permeable Materials
- CE 760 - Environmental Engineering Seminar
- CE 762 - Water Treatment Processes
- CE 766 - Wastewater Engineering: Biological Processes
- CE 768 - Geoenvironmental Engineering Design
- CE 861 - Environmental Engineering Chemistry
- CE 863 - Water Supply and Wastewater Collection Systems
- CE 864 - Unit Operations and Processes in Environmental Engineering
- CE 866 - Advanced Wastewater Treatment
- CE 970 - Advanced Topics in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Water resources electives:
- CE 680 - Economics of Design and Construction
- CE 728 - Advanced Geotechnical Design
- CE 786 - Land Development for Civil Engineers and Planners
- CE 790 - Problems in Civil Engineering
- CE 816 - Selected Topics in Civil Engineering
- CE 828 - Advanced Soil Mechanics
- CE 916 - Advanced Topics in Civil Engineering
- AGRON 816 - Soil Physics
- AGRON 820 - Plant Water Relations
- AGRON 893 - Agricultural Simulation Modeling
- AGRON 916 - Advanced Soil Physics
- BAE 665 - Ecological Engineering Design
- BAE 669 - Watershed Modeling
- BAE 865 - Advanced Ecological Engineering Design
- BAE 869 - Advanced Watershed Modeling
- CHE 650 - Hazardous Waste Engineering Seminar
- CHE 663 - Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment
- CHE 862 - Advanced Transport Phenomena I
- CHE 867 - Advanced Transport Phenomena II
- GEOG 508 - Geographic Information Systems I
- GEOG 608 - Geographic Information Systems II
- GEOG 725 - Geography of Water Resources
- GEOG 740 - Fluvial Geomorphology
- GEOL 611 - Hydrogeology
- GEOL 711 - Water Resources Geochemistry
- GEOL 870 - Groundwater Contaminant Remediation
- ME 720 - Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
- ME 831 - Boundary Layer Theory
- STAT 704 - Analysis of Variance
- STAT 705 - Regression and Correlation Analyses
- STAT 716 - Nonparametric Statistics
- STAT 880 - Time Series Analysis
Program requirements
The general requirements for admission to a civil engineering graduate program include a Bachelor of Science or equivalent degree from an accredited civil engineering program and evidence the applicant has the ability to do satisfactory graduate work. Students not possessing a degree in civil engineering may be admitted if their undergraduate work is closely related to their civil engineering specialty area of interest, and they complete a core program of undergraduate civil engineering coursework.
Students admitted for work toward a master's degree can select a program of study requiring the completion of a master's thesis or a master's report within their area of interest.