Civil and Environmental Engineering, M.S.

Additional Prerequisite Courses

Applicants with a bachelor’s degree in an engineering field other than civil or environmental engineering may be considered with the possibility of additional undergraduate prerequisite courses being required.

Environmental Engineering Track

  • Core Courses: MTH 141, MTH 142, PHY 203 OR PHY 204, CHM 101, and (MTH 243 OR MTH 244 OR MTH 362)
  • CHM 112: General Chemistry Lecture II LEC: (3 crs.) Chemical kinetics, equilibrium, elementary thermodynamics and electrochemistry integrated with descriptive chemistry and practical applications. Pre: CHM 101 with a grade of C- or better. (N)
  • CVE 374: Environmental Engineering LEC: (3 crs.) Water supply and treatment systems, sewerage treatment of municipal and industrial waste waters, stream pollution, groundwater analysis, air pollution and disposal of solid waste materials. (Lec. 3) Pre: MTH 243 or permission of chairperson and at least a 2.00 (C) average in MTH 141, MTH 142, PHY 203, PHY 204, and CHM 101.
  • CVE 471, 475 OR CVE 477
    • CVE 471: Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems LEC: (3 crs.) Development of water quality standards. Design and analysis of physical, chemical, and biological treatment processes and their application to water and wastewater purification systems. (Lec. 2, Lab. 3) Pre: CVE 374 or permission of instructor.
    • CVE 475: Water in the Environment LEC: (3 crs.) Evaluation of water as a resource and its relation to the environment: hydrologic cycle, water budgets, water uses, drought, flood, current water problems. (Lec. 3) Pre: CVE 370 or permission of instructor.
    • CVE 477: Environmental Sustainability and Green Engineering LEC: (3 crs.) Provides an overview of the impacts in aquatic, terrestrial, atmospheric and built environment created by engineering decisions. Understand the physical, chemical, and biological principles that describe interactions between engineering and the environment. (Lec. 3) Pre: senior standing undergraduate from any engineering program or permission of instructor. Not for graduate credit.

Hydraulic Engineering Track

  • Core Courses: MTH 141, MTH 142, PHY 203, PHY 204, CHM 101, and (MTH 243 OR MTH 244 OR MTH 362)
  • MCE 354: Fluid Mechanics LEC: (3 crs.) Physical properties of fluids, development of continuity, energy, and momentum concepts using vector methods; application to problems involving viscous and nonviscous fluids including boundary layer flows, flows in closed conduits and around immersed bodies. (Lec. 3) Pre: MCE 263 and MTH 243 or permission of instructor.
  • CVE 370: Hydraulic Engineering LEC: (3 crs.) Applied hydraulics of flow in closed conduits and open channels: river and groundwater hydraulics. Analysis of hydraulic structures. Reservoir design. Principles of hydrology. (Lec. 3) Pre: MCE 354 and at least a 2.00 (C) average in MTH 141, MTH 142, PHY 203, PHY 204, and CHM 101.
  • CVE 470 OR CVE 475
    • CVE 470: Water And Wastewater Transport Systems LEC: (3 crs.) Computer analysis of water storage and transmission. Design of water distribution and wastewater collection systems. (Lec. 2, Lab. 3) Pre: CVE 370 or 374 or permission of instructor.
    • CVE 475: Water in the Environment LEC: (3 crs.) Evaluation of water as a resource and its relation to the environment: hydrologic cycle, water budgets, water uses, drought, flood, current water problems. (Lec. 3) Pre: CVE 370 or permission of instructor.

Structural Engineering Track

  • Core Courses: MTH 141, MTH 142, PHY 203, PHY 204, and (MTH 243 OR MTH 244 OR MTH 362)
  • MCE 262: Statics LEC: (3 crs.) Newton’s laws of force systems in equilibrium and their effects on particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies. Both scalar and vector methods of analysis are developed. (Lec. 3) Pre: MTH 141 and credit or concurrent enrollment in EGR 106, or permission of instructor.
  • CVE 220: Mechanics of Materials LEC: (3 crs.) Mechanical properties of materials; analysis of members under axial, torsional, and transverse loads; stress and strain; beam deflections, and introduction to statically-indeterminate beams and buckling of columns. (Lec. 3) Pre: MCE 262.
  • CVE 354: Structural Engineering LEC: (3 crs.) Loads and load paths; analysis of statically determinate beams, trusses, frames; deflections of beams and trusses; influence lines; and indeterminate beams and trusses. (Lec. 3) Pre: CVE 220 with C or better and at least a 2.00 (C) average in MTH 141, MTH 142, PHY 203, PHY 204, and CHM 101.
  • CVE 460 OR CVE 465
    • CVE 460: Steel Structures LEC: (3 crs.) Theory of steel structures including beams, columns, beam-columns, composite construction and connections. Material properties, environmental loads, state of construction practice, fabrication and economic aspects. (Lec. 3) Pre: CVE 354 or permission of instructor.
    • CVE 465: Analysis and Design of Concrete Structures LEC: (3 crs.) Current criteria and practice for design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. Elastic and ultimate strength analysis of beams, slabs, columns, and frames. Comprehensive design problems. (Lec. 3) Pre: CVE 354 or permission of instructor. Not for graduate credit in civil engineering.

Geotechnical Engineering Track

  • Core Courses: MTH 141, MTH 142, PHY 203, PHY 204, and (MTH 243 OR MTH 244 OR MTH 362)
  • MCE 262: Statics LEC: (3 crs.) Newton’s laws of force systems in equilibrium and their effects on particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies. Both scalar and vector methods of analysis are developed. (Lec. 3) Pre: MTH 141 and credit or concurrent enrollment in EGR 106, or permission of instructor.
  • CVE 220: Mechanics of Materials LEC: (3 crs.) Mechanical properties of materials; analysis of members under axial, torsional, and transverse loads; stress and strain; beam deflections, and introduction to statically-indeterminate beams and buckling of columns. (Lec. 3) Pre: MCE 262.
  • CVE 381: Geotechnical Engineering LEC: (3 crs.) Engineering properties of soils, seepage, consolidation theory, calculation of stresses, failure theories, shear strength of sand, shear strength of clay. (Lec. 3) Pre: CVE 220 and at least a 2.00 (C) average in MTH 141, MTH 142, PHY 203, PHY 204, and CHM 101.
  • CVE 483: Shallow Foundations LEC: (3 crs.) Cross-listed as (CVE), OCE 483. Applications of geotechnical engineering principles to analysis and design of shallow foundations. Foundation types, lateral earth pressures, bearing capacity, settlement, gravity retaining walls, cantilever sheet pile walls. (Lec. 3) Pre: CVE 381.

Transportation Engineering Track

  • Core Courses: MTH 141, MTH 142, PHY 203, PHY 204, and (MTH 243 OR MTH 244 OR MTH 362)
  • CVE 205: Introduction to Civil Engineering Tools LEC: (2 crs.) This course focuses on field measurement using conventional survey techniques and the implementation of computer- aided design for the preparation of mapping and base site plans. (Lec. 1, Lab. 3) Pre: EGR 106 and MTH 142.
  • CVE 346: Transportation Engineering LEC: (3 crs.) Concepts of transportation planning and design as well as traffic analysis techniques are covered with respect to Multi-Mode travel within transportation systems. (Lec. 3) Pre: At least a 2.00 (C) average in MTH 141, MTH 142, PHY 203, PHY 204, and CHM 101.
  • CVE 347: Highway Engineering LEC: (3 crs.) Design of modern highways and streets including planning, location, geometric layout, drainage structures, bituminous materials, pavement structure, construction, operation, maintenance and rehabilitation. (Lec. 3) Pre: CVE 346.