Distance Education MCE Plans of Study

You may take a selection of courses planned by you and your advisor to meet the flexible Civil Engineering program and Graduate School requirements. There are opportunities to develop either significant depth in a specialty or to seek a breadth of knowledge from logically related areas. The listing of previously offered and planned CE distance courses can be helpful in determining availability. Supporting courses from other departments can also be included. The Civil Engineering primary specialty areas with distance courses available to date are as follows:

	Construction Engineering and Management
	Geotechnical/Geoenvironmental Engineering
	Structures and Mechanics
	Transportation Systems and Materials
	Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

Supporting courses may also be selected from other disciplines such as statistics, operations research, computer science, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, public administration, and business. Some of the supporting area courses are offered through Engineering Online and others through Delta.

The typical Plan of Graduate Work often has about 6 or 7 of the courses from one specialty area and the remainder selected from other related specialty areas and supporting areas. It may also be possible to arrange a special project under CE 675 (up to 3 cr. hrs.) allowing guided independent research and study of a topic. CE 675 requires submission of an acceptable major report on the project.

The following are example Plans of Graduate Work. The courses shown in each example are not required sets of courses but are representative of possible selections.

Construction Engineering & Management
CE 561	Construction Project Management	3
CE 564	Legal Aspects of Contracting	3
CE 567	Construction Risk and Finance	3
CE 751	Theory of Concrete Mixes	3
CE 761	Des. of Temporary Structures in Const.	3
CE 766	Building Construction Systems	3
OR 501	Intro. to Operations Research	3
CE 675	Civil Engineering Project	3
CE 528	Structural Design in Wood	3
IE 510	Applied Engineering Economy	3
		30
Geotechnical Engineering
CE 741	Geomechanics of Stress Deformation	3
CE 742	Deformation and Instability of Soils	3
CE 744	Foundation Engineering	3
CE 747	Geosynthetics in Geotechnical Engineering	3
CE 584	Hydraulics of Groundwater	3
CE 564	Legal Aspects of Contracting	3
CE 755	Highway Pavement Design	3
CE 593	Special Topics in Geotechnical Engineering	3
CE 561	Construction Project Management	3
CE 675	Civil Engineering Project	3
		30
Structural Engineering & Mechanics
CE 522	Theory & Design of Prestressed Concrete	3
CE 523	Theory & Behavior of Steel Structures	3
CE 524	Analysis & Design of Masonry Structures	3
CE 525	Structural Analysis II	3
CE 528	Structural Design in Wood	3
CE 715	Advanced Strength of Materials	3
CE 720	Matrix & Finite Element Struct. Anal. I	3
CE 725	Earthquake Structural Engineering	3
CE 726	Advanced Theory of Concrete Structures	3
CE 751	Theory of Concrete Mixes	3
		30
Transportation Engineering & Materials
CE 501	Transportation Systems Engineering	3
CE 502	Traffic Operations	3
CE 506	Transp. Engr. Data Collection and Analysis	3
CE 509	Highway Safety	3
CE 702	Traffic Flow Theory	3
CE 755	Highway Pavement Design	3
CE 757	Pavement Management Systems	3
CE 561	Construction Project Management	3
CE 564	Legal Aspects of Contracting	3
CE 576	Engineering Princ. of Air Pollution Control	3
		30
Water Resources & Environmental Engineering
CE 571	Physical Principles in Environmental Engr.	3
CE 572	Design of Water and Wastewater Facilities	3
CE 573	Biological Princ. of Environmental Engr.	3
CE 574	Chemical Princ. of Environmental Engr.	3
CE 576	Engineering Princ. of Air Pollution Control	3
CE 577	Engineering Princ. of Solid Waste Manag.	3
CE 579	Principles of Air Quality Engineering	3
CE 584	Hydraulics of Groundwater	3
CE 588	Water Resources Engineering	3
CE 772	Environmental Exposure and Risk Analysis	3
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