Civil Engineering Masters Degree Requirements
Required Essential Skills (6 Hours)
All MS in Civil Engineering students are required to take the following courses.
- ENGR 6002 - Research Methods
- CE 6003 - Probabilistic Analysis and Reliability in Civil Engineering
Thesis Option
Students in the thesis option are required to: - complete minimum six hours of thesis credit - take minimum six courses (18-hours) from the core electives listed below
- CE 6401 - Master's Thesis
Non-Thesis Option
Students in the Non-Thesis Option are required to take a minimum of eight courses (24-hours) from the core electives listed below.
Core Electives
Students are to take a minimum of six courses if they are in the Thesis Option. Students are to take a minimum of eight courses if they are in the Non-Thesis Option.
- CE 6101: Finite Element Analysis
- CE 6102: Structural Dynamics
- CE 6103: Prestressed Concrete Design
- CE 6105: Ground Improvement
- CE 6202: Advanced Highway Design and Traffic Safety
- CE 6204: Bituminous and Concrete Materials
- CE 6104: Deep Foundations: Driven Piles and Drilled Shafts
- CE 6133: Design of Timber and Masonry Structures
- CE 6201: Transportation Planning
- CE 6302: Advanced Air Pollution Management and Control
- CE 6303: Water Resources Management
- CE 6304: Advanced Hydraulics
- CE 6333: Advanced Hazardous Waste Engineering
- CE 6343: Solid Waste Management and Engineering
- CE 6433: Hydraulic Principles and Applications in Civil Engineering
- CE 6533: Computational Geotechnical Engineering
- CE 6633: Highway Pavement Engineering
- CE 6900: Special Topics in CE