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Admissions
The basic admission requirement to the
Graduate Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering is a baccalaureate
degree in Civil/ Environmental Engineering
or in related engineering fields: Aerospace, Chemical and Mechanical.
Students with undergraduate backgrounds in Electrical Engineering, Physics,
Chemistry,
Biology or Mathematics may be admitted into the Program contingent
upon the fulfillment of a specified undergraduate prerequisites to be
determined
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Master of Science in Civil Engineering with Emphasis
in Environmental Engineering
Within five years of admission, the student
must earn a minimum of 30 credit hours with thesis option or 33 credit hours
with a project option (there is no course-only option, all students MUST
do either a thesis
or a project). The student must satisfy the GPA and course requirements
for their field of specialty and attend the Department’s Graduate
Seminar. Each student must complete either a thesis or a scholarly paper.
The thesis option in the student’s field requires a minimum of
8 graduate-level courses and six credit-hours of thesis (ENCE 799). The
thesis must be defended with an oral exam and accepted with the approval
of the student’s M.S. thesis committee. Upon completion of the
thesis research, the thesis must be defended in a public presentation.
The project option in the student’s field requires a minimum of
10 graduate-level courses as described below and three credit hours of
ENCE 798 research project work resulting in a technical paper which must
be approved by the advisor. No more than six credits may be transferred
from another university. Credit transfer and/or exceptions to the 6-credit
transfer limit must be approved by the Graduate Program Director and
the Associate Dean of the Graduate School.
Full-time students are encouraged to take the thesis option. The thesis option
will be used most often by students who are funded through external grants
thus, the thesis committee will be made up of faculty who are involved with
the funded research project with a CEE faculty member serving as Committee
Chair. Part-time students may find it more befitting their personal situation
to pursue the non-thesis option that is particularly designed for working
students.
Five core courses are required for all students in the environmental engineering
area. An example curriculum for the thesis option is presented in Table 1;
a sample curriculum for the non-thesis option can be found in Table 2.
Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering with Emphasis in Environmental
Engineering
The Ph.D. degree is substantially
heavier in research compared with the M.S. degree and is geared
towards successfully mastering
a body of skills and knowledge in preparation for a career as an
independent scholar. This degree is recommended for those who expect
to engage in a professional career in research, teaching, or technical
work of an advanced nature. The Ph.D. candidate must take at least
12 hours of dissertation credits and produce a dissertation that
demonstrates a significant contribution to the state-of-the-art
in the topic selected. The Ph.D. dissertation committee is required
to include a greater number of members than a M.S. committee and
must include at least one external member. There is a residency
requirement for Ph.D. students and a qualifying exam and dissertation
proposal defense are required for candidacy to the Ph.D. program.
The basic requirements for the Ph.D. degree are the completion of a minimum of
30 credit-hours of graduate courses beyond the bachelor’s degree (some of which
can come from MS degree), a minimum of 12 credit-hours of ENCE 899 (doctoral
dissertation research), passing a qualifying exam, the successful preparation
and defense of a dissertation proposal, and the public defense of the doctoral
dissertation. Specific course work is decided by the candidate’s PhD committee
and these courses would be drawn from Departments within the College of Engineering
(e.g., Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering) and the
College of Arts and Science (e.g., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry).
PhD students can also take classes from the MEES program (all CEE faculty are
members of the MEES program).
Table 1. Example Curriculum: M.S. in CE - Environmental Engineering
Track – Thesis Option
Table 2. Example Curriculum: M.S. in CE - Environmental Engineering
Track – Non-Thesis
Option
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