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A graduate degree sharpens your expertise within your areas of interest. Whether you are a practicing engineer with years in the industry or recent graduate with your bachelor’s degree, the Master of Engineering will allow you to hone your existing knowledge in a more specialized field within civil and environmental engineering.
Each track has unique coursework requirements and elective options, but all tracks provide flexibility for pursuing your greatest interests.
Curriculum Requirements
Core Courses (9 semester hours):
- CIVE 577 – GIS in Civil & Environmental Engineering
- CIVE 578 – Infrastructure Engineering & Management
- CON 560 – Applied Project Management
Designated Electives (minimum 12 semester hours):
- CIVE 440 – Nonpoint Source Pollution
- CIVE 514 – Hydraulic Structures
- CIVE 525 – Water Engineering for International Development
- CIVE 544 – Water Resources Planning & Management
- CIVE 546 – Water Resources Systems Analysis
- CIVE 549 – Drainage & Wetlands Engineering
- CIVE 550 – Foundation Engineering
- CIVE 558 – Containment Systems for Waste Disposal
- CIVE 560 – Advanced Mechanics of Materials
- CIVE 565 – Finite Element Method
- CIVE 571 – Pipe System Engineering and Hydraulics
- CIVE 572 – Analysis of Urban Water Systems
- CIVE 573 – Urban Stormwater Management
- CIVE 574 – Civil Engineering Project Management
- CIVE 575 – Sustainable Water & Waste Management
- CIVE 622 – Risk Analysis of Water/Environmental Systems
- CIVE 658 – Remediation Systems – Surface Contamination
- CON 511 – Project Procurement and Preconstruction
- CON 569 – Regulatory Impact on Construction
- CON 571 – Facility Planning and Management
Open Electives (9 semester hours):
- Any courses approved by the Track Coordinator
Recommended Core Courses (9 semester hours):
- CIVE 540 – Fundamentals of Environmental Biotechnology
- CIVE 541 – Physical Chemical Water Treatment Process
- CIVE 538 – Aqueous Chemistry
Elective Courses by topic:
Water, Wastewater Treatment, and Residuals Management
- CHEM 471 – Physical Chemistry
- CIVE 537 – Residuals Management
- CIVE 539 – Water & Wastewater Analysis
- CIVE 541 – Physical Chemical Water Treatment Process
- CIVE 543 – Industrial Wastes Management
- MIP 300 – General Microbiology
- SOCR 467 – Soil and Environmental Chemistry
Groundwater & Geoenvironmental
- CBE 524 – Environmental Biotechnology
- CIVE 531 – Groundwater Hydrology
- CIVE 558 – Containment Systems for Waste Disposal
- CIVE 633 – Groundwater Contamination
- CIVE 658 – Remediation Systems – Surface Contamination
- CIVE 680 – Quantitative Eco-Hydrology
- CIVE 733 – Flow in Porous Media
Hydraulics & Wind Engineering
- CIVE 413 – Environmental River Mechanics
- CIVE 504 – Wind Engineering
- CIVE 604 – Turbulent Transport & Diffusion
- CIVE 610 – Design of Stream Rehabilitation Features
- CIVE 612 – Open Channel Hydraulics
- CIVE 716 – Erosion & Sedimentation
Atmospheric Science
- ATS 555 – Air Pollution
- ATS 556 – Air Pollution Measurements
- ATS 716 – Air Quality Characterization
Water Resources & Hydrologic Science
- CIVE 440 – Nonpoint Source Pollution
- CIVE 520 – Physical Hydrology
- CIVE 521 – Hydrometry
- CIVE 522 – Engineering Hydrology
- CIVE 524/ER 524 – Modeling Watershed Hydrology
- CIVE 545 – Management & Monitoring Water Quality
- CIVE 546 – Water Resources Systems Analysis
- CIVE 547 – Statistics for Environmental Monitoring
- CIVE 573 – Urban Stormwater Management
- CIVE 622 – Risk Analysis of Water/Environmental Systems
- CIVE 623 – Water Quality Hydrology
- CIVE 624 – Control of Floods and Droughts
- STAT 420 – Probability & Mathematical Statistics I
- STAT 430 – Probability & Mathematical Statistics II
- STAR 511 – Design and Data Analysis for Researchers I
- STAR 512 – Design and Data Analysis for Researchers II
- WR 516 – Cumulative Effects & Watershed Analysis
Ecology
- BZ 471 – Stream Biology & Ecology
- BZ 472 – Stream Biology & Ecology Lab
- BZ 474 – Limnology
Core Courses:
- CIVE 655 – Advanced Soil Mechanics
- CIVE 657 – Oral Communication in Geotechnical Engineering
Designated Electives (minimum 15 semester hours):
- CIVE 455 – Applications in Geotechnical Engineering
- CIVE 458 – Introduction to Geoenvironmental Engineering
- CIVE 531 – Groundwater Hydrology
- CIVE 550 – Foundation Engineering
- CIVE 555 – Tailings Geotechnics
- CIVE 556 – Slope Stability & Seepage
- CIVE 558 – Containment Systems for Waste Disposal
- CIVE 559 – Special Topics in Geotechnical Engineering
- CIVE 560 – Advanced Mechanics of Materials
- CIVE 631 – Solutions to Groundwater Problems
- CIVE 638 – Groundwater Quality and Contaminant Transport
- CIVE 659 – Advanced Special Topics in Geotechnical Engineering
- ENGR 550 – Numerical Methods in Science & Engineering
Open Electives (9 semester hours):
- Any courses approved by the Track Coordinator
Core Courses (chose two for minimum of 6 semester hours):
- CIVE 512 – Irrigation Systems Design
- CIVE 519 – Irrigation Water Management
- CIVE 549 – Drainage & Wetlands Engineering
- CIVE 612 – Open-Channel Flow
Designated Electives (minimum 18 semester hours):
- CIVE 520 – Physical Hydrology
- CIVE 521 – Hydrometry
- CIVE 522 – Engineering Hydrology
- CIVE 525 – Water Engineering for International Development
- CIVE 531 – Groundwater Engineering
- CIVE 532 – Wells & Pumps
- CIVE 544 – Water Resources Planning & Management
- CIVE 546 – Water Resources Systems Analysis
- CIVE 547 – Statistics for Environmental Monitoring
- CIVE 571 – Pipe System Engineering and Hydraulics
- CIVE 576 – Engineering Applications of GIS/GPS
- CIVE 577 – GIS in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CIVE 625 – Quantitative Eco-Hydrology
- CIVE 631 – Solutions to Groundwater Problems
- CIVE 681A1 – Systems for Developing Groundwater Resources
- AGRI 500 – Advanced Issues in Agriculture
- ENGR 520 – Engineering Decision Support/Expert Systems
- NSCI 696 – Group Study: The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science
- SOCR 470 – Soil Physics
- SOCR 471 – Soil Physics Lab
- SOCR 490 – Hydrus-1D Workshop
- SOCR 520 – Plant Canopy Meteorology
Open Electives (maximum 6 semester hours):
- Any courses approved by the Track Coordinator
Core Courses:
- CIVE 560 – Advanced Mechanics of Materials
- CIVE 562 – Fundamentals of Vibration
- CIVE 565 – Finite Element Method
- CIVE 566 – Intermediate Structural Analysis
Design Courses (choose 2):
- CIVE 664 – Mechanics of Fatigue and Fracture
- CIVE 507 – Transportation Engineering
- CIVE 508 – Bridge Engineering
- CIVE 550 – Foundation Engineering
- CIVE 561 – Advanced Steel Behavior and Design
- CIVE 564 – Principles of Load Modeling for Structural Design
- CIVE 567 – Advanced Concrete Design
- CIVE 568 – Design of Masonry and Wood Structures
Open Electives (12 semester hours):
- Any courses approved by the Track Coordinator
Core Courses:
- CIVE 525 – Water Engineering: International Development
- IE/ANTH 679 – Applications of International Development
Supporting Civil and Environmental Engineering Classes:
- International Engineering
- CIVE 421 – Global Water Challenges
- Hydrology
- CIVE 531 – Groundwater Hydrology
- CIVE 542 – Water Quality Modeling
- Measurement/Analysis Methods
- CIVE 521 – Hydrometry
- CIVE 577 – GIS in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CIVE 547 – Statistics for Environmental Monitoring
- Water and Wastewater Treatment
- CIVE 539 – Water and Wastewater Analysis
- CIVE 541 – Physical Chemical Water Treatment Processes
- CIVE 540 – Advanced Biological Wastewater Processing
- CIVE 575* – Sustainable Water and Wastewater Management
- Conveyance Systems
- CIVE 514 – Hydraulic Structures/Systems
- CIVE 571 – Pipeline Engineering and Hydraulics
- CIVE 572 – Analysis of Urban Water Systems
- CIVE 573 – Urban Stormwater Management
- Irrigation and Drainage
- CIVE 512* – Irrigation Systems Design
- CIVE 549 – Drainage and Wetland Engineering
- Utility Management
- CIVE 544* – Water Resources Planning and Management
- CIVE 578* – Infrastructure and Utility Management
*Approved as an International Development Studies graduate certificate supporting course
Supporting Non-Engineering Classes:
- Anthropology
- ANTH 505 – Resilience, Well-Being, and Social Justice
- ANTH 520 – Women, Health, and Culture
- ANTH 540 – Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 571 – Anthropology and Global Heath
- Agriculture and Resource Economics
- AREC 460 – Ag and Resource Based Economic Development
- Economics
- ECON 460 – Economic Development
- ECON 760 – Theories of Economic Development
- International Education
- IE/PSY 517 – Perspectives in Global Health
- Language
- L*** – Upper Division Foreign Language
- Political Science
- POLS 433 – International Organization
- POLS 444 – Comparative African Politics
- POLS 445 – Comparative Asian Politics
- POLS 446 – Politics of South America
- POLS 447 – Politics in Mexico, Central America, Caribbean
- POLS 541 – Political Economy of Change and Development
- POLS 670 – Politics of Environment and Sustainability
- POLS 739 – International Environmental Politics
- POLS 749 – Comparative Environmental Politics
- Sociology
- SOC 660 – Theories of Development and Social Change
- SOC 669 – Global Inequality and Change
- Communication Studies
- SPCM 634 – Communication and Cultural Diversity
- Watershed Science
- WR 510 – Watershed Management in Developing Countries
Core Courses (choose two for minimum of 6 semester hours):
- CIVE 502 – Fluid Mechanics
- CIVE 514 – Hydraulic Structures/Systems (given currently on alternate years)
- CIVE 520 – Physical Hydrology
- CIVE 544 – Water Resources Planning and Management
Designated Electives (minimum 18 semester hours):
- CIVE 413 – Environmental River Mechanics
- CIVE 423 – Groundwater Engineering
- CIVE 440 – Non-point Source Pollution
- CIVE 510 – Applied Hydraulic System Design
- CIVE 511 – Coastal Engineering
- CIVE 512 – Irrigation Design and Management
- CIVE 513 – Morphodynamic Modeling
- CIVE 519 – Irrigation Water Management
- CIVE 521 – Hydrometry
- CIVE/WR 524 – Modeling Watershed Hydrology
- CIVE 525 – Water Engineering: International Development
- CIVE 530 – Environmental Engineering at the Water-Energy-Health Nexus
- CIVE 531 – Groundwater Hydrology
- CIVE 538 – Aqueous Chemistry
- CIVE 539 – Water and Wastewater Analysis
- CIVE 541 – Physical Chemical Water treatment Processes
- CIVE 542 – Water Quality Modeling
- CIVE 549 – Drainage and Wetlands Engineering
- CIVE 571 – Pipe System Engineering and Hydraulics
- CIVE 572 – Analysis of Urban Water Systems
- CIVE 573 – Urban Stormwater Management
- CIVE 576 – Engineering Applications of GIS and GPS
- CIVE 604 – Fluid Turbulence and Modeling
- CIVE 607 – Computational Fluid Dynamics
- CIVE 610 – Special Topics in Hydraulics
- CIVE 612 – Open-Channel Flow
- CIVE 613 – Stream Rehabilitation Design
- CIVE 622 – Risk Analysis of Water/Environmental Systems
- CIVE 625 – Quantitative Eco-Hydrology
- CIVE 631 – Solutions to Groundwater Problems
- CIVE 716 – Erosion and Sedimentation
- CIVE 717 – River Mechanics
- GEOL 652 – Fluvial Geomorphology
Open Electives (6 semester hours):
- Any courses approved by the Track Coordinator
Looking for a Fully Online Graduate Program?
We offer a 100% online Master of Engineering in the area of water resources management. The program is 30 credit hours and can be completed without ever coming to campus – a great option for engineers working full-time and wanting to enhance their education!