Program Description
The Smart Cities minor recognizes the growing ubiquity of sensors, smart devices, real-time data and advancements in artificial intelligence in the fields of civil and environmental engineering to approach the built and natural environments. This minor encourages engineering students to learn about how to best use data to design, analyze, and control smart, interconnected, and dynamic infrastructure systems. To help engineer smart cities of the future, in addition to technical skills in civil engineering students in this minor will also gain knowledge on the environment, climate change, technology, sensors, and data science.
Minor Requirements
A minimum of six (6) courses (18 credits), at least nine (9) credits of which must be unique from Required Major Courses used to satisfy the student's major.
Core Requirements
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| |
| ORIE 2380 | | 3 |
| CEE 4665 | Modeling and Optimization for Smart Infrastructure Systems | 3 |
| CEE 4795 | Sensors for the Built and Natural Environments | 3 |
| CEE 4800 | Engineering Smart Cities | 3 |
| CEE 4930 | Data Analytics | 4 |
| CEE 5735 | Mathematical Modeling of Natural and Engineered Systems | 3 |
| CEE 5745 | Inverse Problems: Theory and Applications | 3 |
Focus Areas
Remaining credits can be bundled into focus areas. Examples of areas and courses are given below; students can petition other areas and relevant courses:
Transportation & Energy Systems
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| CEE 3610 | Introduction to Transportation Engineering | 3 |
| CEE 4210 | Renewable Energy Systems | 3 |
| CEE 4620 | Analysis and Control of Transportation Systems and Networks | 3 |
| CEE 4640 | Sustainable Transportation Systems Design | 3 |
| CEE 4880 | Applied Modeling and Simulation for Renewable Energy Systems | 3 |
| ENMGT 5200 | Economics of the Energy Transition | 3 |
| MAE 4220 | Introduction to Internet of Things - Technology and Engagement | 3 |
Climate-Energy-Water Nexus
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| BEE 4310 | Environmental Statistics and Learning | 4 |
| CEE 4200 | Managing Water Resources in a Changing World | 3 |
| CEE 4565 | Waste Water Processes and Resources Recovery | 3 |
| CEE 5420 | Energy Technologies and Subsurface Resources | 3 |
Finance, Economics, and Infrastructure Policy
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| CEE 3230 | Engineering Economics and Management | 3 |
| ENMGT 5200 | Economics of the Energy Transition | 3 |
| ENMGT 5940 | Economics and Finance for Engineering Management | 4 |
| INFO 5455 | Smart Cities: Requirements, Ambitions, and Limitations | 3 |
| PUBPOL 5755 | Infrastructure Financing | 3 |
| PUBPOL 5757 | Infrastructure Project Management and Finance Practicum | 1.5 |
| PUBPOL 4640 | Regulation and Infrastructure Policy | 3 |
Engineering students affiliated with all majors except Civil Engineering are eligible to participate in this minor. Civil Engineering students can choose to follow the Smart Cities concentration.
Graduation Requirements for Engineering Minor Degree Programs
Requirements
Students may pursue minors in any department in any college that offers them, subject to limitations placed by the department offering the minor or by the students' major. Completed minors will appear on the student's transcript. Not all departments offer minors. Additional information on specific minors can be found above, in the Engineering Undergraduate Handbook, in the undergraduate major office of the department or school offering the minor, and in Engineering Advising.
An engineering minor recognizes formal study of a particular subject area in engineering normally outside the major. Students undertaking a minor are expected to complete the requirements during the time of their continuous undergraduate enrollment at Cornell. Completing the requirements for an engineering minor (along with a major) may require more than the traditional eight semesters at Cornell. However, courses that fulfill minor requirements may also satisfy other degree requirements (e.g., distribution courses, advisor-approved, or major-approved electives), and completion within eight semesters is possible.
An engineering minor requires:
- successful completion of all requirements for an undergraduate degree.
- enrollment in a major that approves participation in the minor.
- satisfactory completion of six courses (at least 18 credits) in a college-approved minor.
Students may apply for certification of a minor at any time after the required course work has been completed in accordance with published standards. An official notation of certification of a minor appears on the Cornell transcript following graduation.
