Civil and Environmental Engineering (MS)

Graduate School

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Graduate Field

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Program Description

The Graduate field of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an interdisciplinary program that covers an extensive field bound within the context of public works and service. The research conducted in CEE benefits the public good and is at the cutting edge of technological and scientific developments. Students in the M.S. program may select one area of concentration. Additional information is available on request from the graduate field office.

Concentrations

Complex Systems Engineering

Complex Systems Engineering investigates how systems-level behavior emerges from interactions among components in both engineered and natural systems. This interdisciplinary field combines mathematical modeling, nonlinear dynamics, data science, numerical simulation, optimization, and stochastic processes with domain-specific knowledge grounded in physical, chemical, and biological principles.

Environmental Processes 

Environmental Processes is concerned with the protection and management of the quality of the environment for the benefit of society. The concentration emphasize biological, chemical, and physical phenomena and engineering principles; laboratory and computational skills; and their application to the analysis of relevant problems.

Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology 

Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology involves the study of fluid mechanics of the environment and the associated application to hydraulics, hydrology, coastal oceanography, and meteorology as related to the wet earth and atmosphere.

Environmental and Water Resources Systems Engineering 

Environmental and Water Resources Systems Engineering addresses the development and application of scientific principles, economic theory, and mathematical techniques to the management and planning of public infrastructure and environmental and water resource systems.

Structural Engineering 

Structural Engineering concentrates its considerable expertise in materials, computational and probabilistic mechanics, structural health monitoring, and high-performance computing to model, analyze, simulate, and design complex systems that are characterized by multi-physics processes that transcend several time and length scales.

Transportation Systems Engineering 

Transportation Systems Engineering embraces policy, planning, design, and evaluation of transport systems and the relationships among transport supply and demand, land use, and regional development. The approach is multimodal and systems-oriented; it emphasizes the use of quantitative and analytical techniques of operations research and economics.