CEEMPHD - Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

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54 units of coursework (including 18 units of dissertation) plus 9-12 minor units

Minimum GPA - 3.50

Construction Management

• course: Construction Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control (3)

• course: Construction Cost Estimating (3)

• course: Construction Equipment and Methods (3)

Engineering Mechanics

• course / course: Introduction to Finite Element Methods (3)

• course: Elasticity Theory and Application (3)

• course: Fracture Mechanics (3)

• course: Mechanical Behavior of Materials II - Special Topics (3)

• course: Wave Propagation in Solids (3)

Courses outside of the department:

• course: Advanced Engineering Analysis (3)

• course: Advanced Engineering Analysis (3)

• course: Mechanics of Deformable Solids (3)

• course: Mechanics of Deformable Solids (3)

• course: Artificial Intelligence (3)

• course: Neural Networks (3)

• course: Engineering Statistics (3)

• course: Nonlinear Optimization (3)

Geotechnical

• course: Foundation Engineering (3)

• course: Earth Structures in Geotechnical Engineering (3)

• course: Ground Improvement (3)

• course: Special Topics in Geomechanics (3)        

• course: Geoenvironmental Engineering (3)  

• course: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (3) 

• course: Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (3)

 Courses outside of the department:

• course: Geophysical Exploration and Engineering (3)

• course: Rock Excavation

• course: Geomechanics (3)

• course: Underground Construction Geomechanics (3)

• course: The Mechanics of Fracture in Rock and Other Brittle Materials (3)

Hydraulics

• course: Open-Channel Flow (3)

• course: Hydrology (3)

• course: Sedimentation Engineering (3)

• course: Computer Applications in Hydraulics (3)

• course: Special Topics in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering (3)

Courses outside of department

• course: Watershed Engineering (3)

• course: Soil and Water Resources Engineering (3)

• course: Irrigation Systems Design (3)

• course: Wastewater Treatments Operations and Reuse (3)

• course: Design of Onsite Wastewater Treatment and Dispersal Systems (3)

• course: Water Chemistry for Engineers (3)

• course: Fate and Transport Processes in Environmental Engineering (3)

• course: Water Treatment System Design (3)

• course: Microbiology for Engineers (3)

• course: Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management (3)

• course: Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment (3)

• course: Subsurface Fluid Dynamics(3)

• course: Water Resources Systems Planning and Management (3)

• course: Fundamentals: Systems Approach to Hydrologic Modeling (3)

• course: Risk Assessment for Environmental Systems (3)

• course: Statistical Hydrology (3)

• course: Economics of Water & Environmental Markets & Incentive-based Policies (3)

• course: Advanced Topics in Water Resource Economics and Policy (3)

• course: Analysis of Hydrologic Systems (3)

• course: Stochastic Methods in Surface Hydrology (3)

• course: Advanced Geographic Information Systems (3)

• course: Spatial Analysis and Modeling(3)

• course: Law for Engineers/Scientists (3)

• course: Engineering Decision Making Under Uncertainty (3)

• course: Fundamentals of Data Science for Engineers (3)

• course: Survey of Optimization Methods (3)

• course: Project Management (3)

• course: Model-Based Systems Engineering (3)

Structures

• course: Probability in Civil Engineering (3)

• course: Advanced Structural Design in Steel (3)

• course: Design of Wood and Masonry Structures (3)

• course: Prestressed Concrete Structures (3)

• course: Advanced Structural Design in Concrete (3)

• course: Behavior and Design of Structural Systems (3)

• course: Infrastructure Rehabilitation (3)

• course: Reinforced Concrete (3)

• course: Advance Structural Stability (3)

• course: 633 Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (3)

• course: 634 Advanced Structural Dynamics (3)

Courses outside of department:

• course: Advanced Engineering Analysis (3)

• course: Advanced Engineering Analysis (3)

• course: Computational Multibody Dynamics (3)

• course: Introduction to Advanced Control Theory (3)

• course: Advanced Vibration (3)

• course: Finite Element Methods  (3)

• course: Mechanics of Deformable Solids (3)

• course: Mechanics of Deformable Solids (3)

• course: Design Optimization (3)

• course: Intro to Machine Learning (3)

• course: Advanced Linear Systems Theory (3)

• course: Engineering Applications of Machine Learning and Data Analytics (3)

• course: Digital Signal Processing (3)

• course: Probability and Random Processes for Engineering Applications (3)

• course: Engineering Materials: Properties and Selection  (3)

Transportation

• course: Special Topics in Transportation Engineering (3)

• course: Traffic Engineering and Operations (3)

• course: Traffic Flow and Capacity Analysis (3)

• course: Transportation Data Management and Analysis (3)

• course: Highway Geometric Design (3)

• course: Traffic Safety (3)

• course: Travel Demand Modeling (3)

• course: Urban Transportation Planning (3)

Courses outside of department:

• course: Big Data Technologies (3)

• course: Topics in Data and Web Mining (3)

• course: Engineering Statistics (3)

• course: Simulation and Analysis  (3)

• course: Survey Optimization Methods  (3)

• course: Theory of Statistics (3)

• course: Theory of Probability (3)

• course: Advanced Statistical Regression Analysis (3)

• course: Design of Experiments (3)

Multi-disciplinary Courses

• course: Integrated Highway Bridge Design Using LRFD Method (3)

Transfer units

• Up to 30 units from a master’s degree may be transferred from other accredited institutions. To transfer, the coursework must have been taken for graduate credit, and an A or B grade must have been earned. These grades will not be included in the student’s GPA .

Qualifying Examination

• Each prospective candidate for a doctoral degree must pass a qualifying examination in the proposed major field. The qualifying examination is typically scheduled to take place on Tuesday in the first week of each Spring Semester. The qualifying examination must be taken during the first year of residency.

9-12 units minimum

• GPA 3.5

• Minimum of 3.5 GPA during M.S. study for Ph.D. Program

• Minimum TOEFL score of 79 (iBT)(CBT = 213)  or IELTS-composite score of 7 (no subject area below 6).  (For international students only)

The minor subject area may be taken within or outside of the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics. The student may choose one or two minor areas, which are determined in consultation with his/her Academic Advisor. The department in which the minor is sought determines specific requirements. The minimum number of minor coursework is nine (9) units, but most minor programs require twelve (12) units of coursework. A minor in Civil Engineering or Engineering Mechanics requires twelve (12) units.

Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.