Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics – M.S.

Degree Concentrations

A total of 30 credits (10 courses) are required in the Master of Science program in the Department of
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, including the completion of at least 18 credits (six courses)
within the CEEM Department. In order to complete a concentration, which would appear on a student’s
transcript, M.S. students must take 3 out of the following 8 core courses and complete the requirements
of their chosen concentration(s).

Core Courses:

● ENME E4332 Finite Element Analysis I

● CIEN E4100 Earthquake and Wind Engineering
● CIEN E4111 Uncertainty and Risk in Infrastructure Systems
● CIEN E4131 Principles of Construction Techniques
● CIEN E4133 Capital Facility Planning and Financing
● CIEN E4137 Managing Civil Infrastructure Systems
● CIEN E4241 Geotechnical Engineering Fundamentals
● MECE E4520 Data Science for Mechanical Systems

Note: Completing a formal concentration is optional. Students who do not wish to have a formal
concentration must meet the minimum requirements for the M.S. degree, but they are not required to
fulfill the core course requirement.

Below are the specific guidelines of each concentration:

The Construction Engineering and Management concentration prepares students to effectively deliver
and manage the capital facilities and infrastructure that provide the setting for human activity and
support economic development. Students would be required to take 3 out of the following 4 courses:

● CIEN E4129 Managing Engineering and Construction Processes

● CIEN E4130 Design of Construction Systems
● CIEN E4131 Principles of Construction Techniques
● CIEN E4140 Environmental, Health, and Safety Concepts in Construction Processes

The Construction Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership concentration prepares

students to effectively lead the identification and implementation of strategic directions for
entrepreneurial engineering and construction organizations. Students would be required to take 3 out of
the following 4 courses:

● CIEN E4135 Strategic Management in Engineering and Construction

● CIEN E4136 Entrepreneurship in Engineering and Construction
● CIEN E4142 International Construction Management: Theory and Practice
● CIEN E6132 Leadership in Engineering and Construction

The Real Estate Development, Construction, and Finance concentration prepares students to effectively
engineer, construct and finance real estate developments. Students would be required to take 3 out of
the following 4 courses:

● CIEN E4132 Prevention and Resolution of Construction Disputes

● CIEN E4138 Real Estate Finance for Construction Management
 ● CIEN E4141 Public-Private Partnerships in Global Infrastructure Development
● CIEN E4144 Real Estate Land Development Engineering

The Engineering Mechanics concentration is intended for those students who wish to acquire a strong
theoretical mechanics foundation and also those who wish to consider pursuing a PhD degree later
on. The major study areas are Mechanics of Solids, Mechanics of Fluids, Computational Mechanics,
Stochastic Mechanics, Structural Mechanics, Experimental Mechanics, and Geo-Mechanics. Students
would be required to take 3 out of the following 4 courses:

● ENME E4113 Advanced Mechanics of Solids

● ENME E4202 Advanced Mechanics
● ENME E4215 Theory of Vibrations
● ENME E4363 Multiscale Computational Science and Engineering OR ENME E6333 Finite Element
Analysis II

The Environmental Engineering and Water Resources concentration is focused on training civil
engineers who are interested in engaging in solving the world’s environmental problems and
contributing to the sustainable management of global water resources. Students would be required to
take 3 out of the following 4 courses:

● CIEE E4163 Sustainable Water Treatment and Reuse

● CIEE E4252 Foundations of Environmental Engineering
● CIEE E4257 Groundwater Contaminant Transport and Remediation
● EAEE E4006 Field Methods for Environmental Engineering

The Forensic (Structural) Engineering concentration is designed to acquaint graduate students, as well as
other young practicing professionals, with various aspects of the forensic engineering field, to provide
them with the basics for the investigation of failures and understanding some of the pertinent legal
aspects, and to prepare them for the eventual practice of forensic structural engineering. Students
would be required to take 3 out of the following 4 courses:

● CIEN E4132 Prevention and Resolution of Construction Disputes

● CIEN E4134 Construction Industry Law
● CIEN E4210 Forensic Structural Engineering
● CIEN E4212 Structural Failures: Cases, Causes, Lessons Learned

The Geotechnical Engineering concentration focuses on a branch of civil engineering that deals with the
behavior of soils, and the design and analysis of natural and man-made soil structures. Students would
be required to take 3 out of the following 4 courses:

● CIEN E4241 Geotechnical Engineering Fundamentals

● CIEN E4242 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
● CIEN E4243 Foundation Engineering OR CIEN E4246 Earth Retaining Structures
● CIEN E4247 Design of Large-Scale Deep Foundation Systems
The Structural Engineering concentration is designed to provide a solid educational background on the
theoretical fundamentals of structural engineering, which is strong with respect to the latest and most
advanced methods of analysis and design, well informed on real-life applications and, above all, open to
new technology and practices. Students would be required to take 3 out of the following 4 courses:

● CIEN E4100 Earthquake and Wind Engineering

● CIEN E4226 Advanced Design of Steel Structures
● CIEN E4232 Advanced Design of Concrete Structures
● CIEN E4234 Design of Large-Scale Buildings

The Smart and Sustainable Cities concentration is intended for students who are interested in the
development and monitoring of sustainable urban infrastructure and buildings. Students would be
required to take 3 out of the following 4 courses:

● ENME E6215 Principles and Applications of Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring
● CIEN E4011 Big Data Analytics in Transportation
● CIEE E4116 Energy Harvesting
● EAEE E4350 Planning and Management of Urban Hydrologic Systems

The Advanced Infrastructure Materials concentration focuses on the properties, design, analysis and
testing of material systems used in civil engineering. Students would be required to take 3 out of the
following 4 courses:

● CIEN E4300 Infrastructural Materials: Production, Use, Properties & Performance

● ENME E4114 Mechanics of Fracture and Fatigue
● ENME E4115 Micromechanics of Composite Materials
● MSAE E4215 Mechanical Behavior of Structural Materials

The Transportation Engineering concentration is designed to prepare students to design, build, and
govern the next-generation transportation ecosystem that has undergone a radical revolution due to the
emergence of advanced technologies, including shared mobility, vehicle connectivity, and autonomous
driving, as well as the availability of big data. Students would be required to take 3 out of the following 4
courses:

● CIEN E4010 Transportation Engineering

● CIEN E4011 Big Data Analytics in Transportation
● CEOR E4011 Infrastructure Systems Optimization
● IEOR E4418 Transportation Analytics and Logistics

The Infrastructure Engineering concentration is for students interested in managing complex

infrastructure systems. Students would be required to take 3 out of the following 4 courses:

● CIEN E4022 Bridge Design and Management

● MECE E4210 Energy Infrastructure Planning
● ECIA W4100 Management and Development of Water Systems
● CEOR E4011 Infrastructure Systems Optimization
The Computational and Data-Driven Engineering Mechanics concentration is intended for students who
wish to enrich their knowledge and learn the state-of-the-art in computational and data-driven methods
and algorithms used to solve challenging problems in science and engineering. Students would be
required to take 2 of the following 3 courses from the core course list on page 1:

● ENME E4332 Finite Element Analysis I

● CIEN E4111 Uncertainty and Risk in Infrastructure Systems
● MECE E4520 Data Science for Mechanical Systems

Students fulfilling the Computational and Data-Driven Engineering Mechanics concentration must also
complete 6 courses from the following list of selected electives:

● CEOR E4011 Infrastructure Systems Optimization

● CIEN E4011 Big Data Analytics in Transportation
● CIEN E4021 Elastic and Plastic Analysis of Structures
● CIEN E4100 Earthquake and Wind Engineering
● CIEN E4213 Elastic and Inelastic Buckling of Structures
● CIEN E4235 Multi-Hazard Design of Structures
● CIEN E4241 Geotechnical Engineering Fundamentals
● CIEN E4242 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
● CIEE E4250 Hydrosystems Engineering
● CIEN E4253 Finite Elements and Plasticity in Geotechnical Engineering
● CIEN E6426 Advanced Soil Mechanics
● CIEN E6248 Experimental Soil Mechanics
● ENME E4113 Advanced Mechanics of Solids
● ENME E4114 Mechanics of Fracture and Fatigue
● ENME E4115 Micromechanics of Composite Materials
● ENME E4202 Advanced Mechanics
● ENME E4214 Theory of Plates and Shells
● ENME E4215 Theory of Vibrations
● ENME E4363 Multiscale Computational Science and Engineering
● ENME E6216 Structural Health Monitoring
● ENME E6220 Stochastic Engineering Mechanics
● ENME E6320 Computational Poromechanics
● ENME E6333 Finite Element Analysis II
● ENME E6364 Nonlinear Computational Mechanics
● ENME E6370 Turbulence Modeling
● ENME E8310 Advanced Continuum Mechanics
● ENME E8320 Viscoelasticity and Plasticity
● ENME E8323 Nonlinear Vibrations
● APMA E4001 Principles of Applied Mathematics
● APMA E4300 Computational Math: Introduction to Numerical Methods
● APMA E4301 Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
● APMA E4302 Methods in Computational Science
● APMA E6302 Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations
● CSEE W4121 Computer Systems for Data Science
● COMS W4130 Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
● COMS W4771 Machine Learning
● COMS W4772 Advanced Machine Learning
● COMS W4776 Machine Learning for Data Science
● MECE E6102 Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow
 ● ECBM E4040 Neural Networks and Deep Learning
● Independent research with faculty in CEEM (CIEN E9101) or in other SEAS departments

Concentration Notes:

● CIEN E4100, CIEN E4131, and CIEN E4241 are on the core list and are also part of certain
concentrations. Students taking these courses may decide to count the course towards their core
requirements or the concentration requirements if there is an overlap.
● Students may discuss substitutions for courses with their faculty adviser under certain
circumstances, i.e. if a specified course in their concentration is not offered during a given
semester, if the student took a comparable course in a previous degree program, etc.
o The faculty adviser will be responsible for determining if the proposed course is a
suitable substitution in their chosen concentration.
o The Engineering School does not accept transfer credits towards graduate degree
programs.