TEMPLE
UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
The Masters of Science in Engineering, Civil Engineering
curriculum, is designed to provide full-time and part-time students with the
opportunity to develop a greater technical competency in the general area of
Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Students will be motivated to grow intellectually through the continued
search for and use of knowledge, and will be provided the catalyst to become
active, articulate, socially aware individuals, and key contributors to the
Civil and Environmental Engineering professions.
Under the MSE Civil Engineering Curriculum, there
are three tracks for the students to choose from: General Civil Engineering
Track, Construction Management Track, and Environmental Engineering Track. The General Civil Engineering Track
encompasses geotechnical engineering, structural engineering and transportation
engineering. The Construction Management Track addresses the techniques for
planning, scheduling, controlling, cost estimating/budgeting, and
administration of contracted projects.
The Environmental Engineering Track covers the fundamentals and
applications of water resources engineering, pollution in natural systems
(water and air), and water treatment.
Candidates admitted to the program are expected to
have an engineering baccalaureate degree and to meet the admission requirements
of the Graduate School and the College of Engineering. Students that do not have the required
background for the selected track must take the necessary courses to compensate
for the deficiency. The minimum
requirements for each track are listed below.
Additional courses may be designated by the Graduate Director of the
Department based on the student’s academic background. Applications must include undergraduate
transcripts, scores for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), and three
letters of recommendation. A waiver for
the GRE may be obtained if the applicant demonstrates that he/she has 2 years
of professional engineering experience.
An undergraduate grade point average of 3.0 out of 4.0 is required. The TOEFL score should be 575 or better for
international applicants.
For graduation, a minimum of 30 earned semester
credit hours of graduate work is required, and a minimum of 18 graduate
semester hours must be in the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering. All graduate students in
the MSE program must select a graduate advisor after taking nine graduate
credit hours or by the end of the first semester they joined the program,
whichever comes first. The advisor
should be a full time graduate faculty in the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering. A plan of
study must be developed and approved by the candidate and the candidate’s
advisor, after completion of nine graduate semester hours or after the first
semester, whichever comes first.
Guided by their graduate advisors, students may
select a plan of study which contains:
1) a non-thesis option consisting of twenty seven earned credits of
graduate courses and three earned credit-hour of research project, or 2) a
thesis option consisting of twenty-four earned credit hours of graduate courses
and six earned credit hour of thesis. A
thesis committee must be formed of at least 3 full-time graduate faculty
members from the College of the Engineering.
The committee is chaired by the student’s graduate advisor.
Any course taken by the student outside of the
College of Engineering must be authorized in writing by the student’s Advisor,
the Graduate Director of the Department, and the Graduate Director of the
College of Engineering in order for the course to be counted towards the MSE
degree.
TRACKS
1) General Civil Engineering Track
As a minimum requirement, students accepted to the
program must have a background in differential equations, engineering statics and
mechanics, soil mechanics, fluid mechanics, physics, and chemistry similar to
the one that students with a Bachelor in Civil Engineering have.
All students are required
to take the following core course:
ENGR 501 Engineering
Mathematics I
A student is required to take at least three of the
following core courses if on a thesis option, or at least five courses if on a
non-thesis option:
Core
Courses:
CE
400 Engineering
Project Management
CE
420 Structural
Mechanics
CE
430 Transportation
Engineering
CE
445 Rebuilding
American Infrastructure
CE
500 Construction
Administration
CE
505 Industrial
Safety
CE
560 Introduction
to Environmental Engineering
CE
510 Transportation
Systems Management
CE
776 Advanced
Engineering Project Management
Students may also take other graduate courses as
elective to complete the required number of graduate courses. Any course offered in the College of
Engineering, and in particular in the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, may be considered as an elective with the written approval of the
student’s advisor.
Students in the General Civil Engineering track who
elect the thesis option must take the following 2 courses:
CE 798 Thesis I (3
s.h.)
CE 799 Thesis II (3
s.h.)
Students in the Civil Engineering track who elect
the non-thesis option must take the following course:
CE 795 Research
Project (3 s.h.)
As a minimum requirement, students accepted to the
program must have a background in calculus, statics, fluid mechanics, physics,
and chemistry similar to the one that students with a Bachelor in Civil
Engineering or a Bachelor in Construction Engineering/Management have.
All students are required
to take one of the two core courses:
STAT 402 Statistical Analysis or equivalent.
ENGR 501 Engineering Mathematics I
And the following three
core courses
CE 400 Engineering Project Management
CE 500 Construction Administration
CE 776 Advanced Engineering Project Management
Non-Thesis students must
select at least two of the following courses:
CE 410 Introduction to Environmental
Engineering
CE 420 Structural Mechanics
CE
430 Transportation
Engineering
CE
445 Rebuilding
American Infrastructure
CE
505 Industrial
Safety
CE
510 Transportation
Systems Management
CE 610 Behavior and Design of Concrete
Structures
CE
611 Behavior
and Design of Masonry Structures
CE
620 Transportation
Engineering Materials
CE
625 Design
of Transportation Facilities
CE
650 Urban
Public Transportation
CE
676 Construction
Equipment Management
CE
677 Construction
Productivity
CE
705 Structural
Stability of Elastic Structures
CE
706 Structural
Dynamics and Earthquake Resistant Design
CE
723 Pavement
Management & Traffic Systems Management
Students may also take other graduate courses as
elective to complete the required number of graduate courses. Any course offered in the College of
Engineering, and in particular in the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, may be considered as an elective with the written approval of the
student’s advisor.
Students in the Construction Management track who
elect the thesis option must take the following 2 courses:
CE 798 Thesis
I (3 s.h.)
CE 799 Thesis
II (3 s.h.)
Students in the Construction Management track who
elect the non-thesis option must take the following course:
CE 795 Research
Project (3 s.h.)
As a minimum requirement, students accepted to the program
must have a background in differential equations, physics, chemistry, and fluid
mechanics that is equivalent to that provided through a Bachelor in Chemical
Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or Mechanical
Engineering.
All students are required
to take one of the following two core courses:
STAT 402 Statistical
Analysis or equivalent.
ENGR 501 Engineering
Mathematics I
And the following three
core courses:
CE 560 Introduction to Environmental
Engineering
CE 530 Physical Principles of Environmental
Systems
CE 455 Chemical Principles of Environmental
Systems
CE 535 Mathematical Principles of Environmental
Systems
Non-thesis students must
select two of the following four courses:
CE 505 Industrial Safety
CE 516 Air Pollution Control
CE 526 Fate of Pollutants in the Subsurface
CE 635 Computer Modelling of Environmental
Transport
CE
641 Water
and Wastewater Systems Design
CE
745 Near-Surface
Environmental Systems
A partial listing of electives as follows:
CE 516 Air Pollution Control
CE 526 Fate of Pollutants in the Subsurface
CE 635 Computer Modelling of Environmental
Transport
CE
641 Water
and Wastewater Systems Design
CE
745 Near-Surface
Environmental Systems
CE 646 Solid
Wastes Engineering
CE 735 Hazardous
Waste Management
CE 509 Environmental
Toxicology
GEOL 410 Advanced Hydrogeology
GEOL 421 Groundwater Modeling
CE 505 Industrial
Safety
ENGR 601 Engineering Mathematics II
Students may also take other graduate courses as
elective to complete the required number of graduate courses. Any course offered in the College of
Engineering, and in particular in the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, may be considered as an elective with the written approval of the
student’s advisor.
Students in the Environmental Engineering track who
elect the thesis option must take the following 2 courses:
CE 798 Thesis I (3
s.h.)
CE 799 Thesis II (3
s.h.)
Students in the Environmental Engineering track who
elect the non-thesis option must take the following course:
CE 795 Research Project (3 s.h.)
Direct Inquiries to:
Dr.
Michel C. Boufadel
Graduate
Director
Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering
College
of Engineering
Temple
University
1947
N. 12th Street
Philadelphia,
PA 19122
(215)
204-7871