Master of Public Works
The Master of Public Works degree is the most widely recognized educational credential for professionals engaged in public works and infrastructure engineering and management. This program is offered in cooperation with the university's Master of Public Policy and Administration program.
Curriculum
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | (9) | |
| Select a minimum of three courses from the following: | 9 | |
| Statistical Analysis of Engineering Data | 3 | |
| Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | 3 | |
| Legal Issues in Civil Engineering | 3 | |
| Economic Decision Analysis in Civil Engineering | 3 | |
| Systems Analysis in Civil Engineering | 3 | |
| Statistical Models and Methods | 3 | |
| Introduction to Public Administration | 3 | |
| Public Infrastructure Management and Financing | 3 | |
| Elective Courses | (21) | |
| Select 21 credit hours (see recommended courses below) 1 | 21 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 30 | |
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If more than three courses from the required courses list are taken, those additional courses can be applied as electives
Recommended Elective Coursework by Subject
Construction Management
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| CAE 471 | Construction Planning and Scheduling | 3 |
| CAE 472 | Construction Site Operation | 3 |
| CAE 473 | Construction Contract Administration | 3 |
| CAE 474 | Introduction to Building Information Modeling | 3 |
| CAE 569 | Construction Methods, Cost Estimating, and Project Budgeting | 3 |
| CAE 570 | Legal Issues in Civil Engineering | 3 |
| CAE 571 | Lean Construction and Control | 3 |
Geo-environmental Engineering
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| CAE 482 | Hydraulic Design of Open Channel Systems | 3 |
| CAE 486 | Soil and Site Improvement | 3 |
| CAE 562 | Engineering Behavior of Soil | 4 |
| CAE 564 | Design of Foundations, Embankments and Earth Structures | 4 |
| CAE 565 | Rock Mechanics and Tunneling | 4 |
| CAE 566 | Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics | 4 |
| CAE 589 | Groundwater Hydrology and Sampling | 3 |
| CAE 590 | Geotechnical Landfill Design and Maintenance | 3 |
| ENVE 401 | Introduction to Water Resources Engineering | 3 |
| ENVE 402 | Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Design | 3 |
| ENVE 404 | Water and Wastewater Engineering | 3 |
| ENVE 463 | Introduction to Air Pollution Control | 3 |
| ENVE 522 | Global Environmental Change and Sustainability Analysis | 3 |
| ENVE 523 | Geoenvironmental Engineering | 3 |
| ENVE 528 | Modeling of Environmental Systems | 3 |
| ENVE 580 | Hazardous Waste Engineering | 3 |
Public Administration - Administration Process
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| PA 502 | Organizational Behavior | 3 |
| PA 503 | Administration Law | 3 |
| PA 522 | Human Resource Management | 3 |
| PA 532 | Public Financial Optimization and Management | 3 |
| PA 533 | Advanced Financial Management for Public and Nonprofit Sectors | 3 |
Public Administration - Policy Planning
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| PA 537 | Crisis Management and Homeland Security | 3 |
| PA 538 | Information Systems Security and Cyber Crime | 3 |
| PA 539 | Local Government Management | 3 |
| PA 562 | Urban and Metropolitan Government | 3 |
| PA 578 | Planning, Policy-Making, and the Built Environment | 3 |
| PA 588 | Incident Response, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity | 3 |
Structural Engineering
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| CAE 436 | Design of Masonry and Timber Structures | 3 |
| CAE 504 | Seismic Retrofit and Earthquake Hazard Reduction | 4 |
| CAE 506 | Building Envelope Rehabilitation | 3 |
| CAE 508 | Advanced Bridge Engineering | 3 |
| CAE 518 | Advanced Reinforced Concrete | 3 |
| CAE 519 | Structural Forensic Engineering | 3 |
| CAE 520 | Buckling of Structures | 4 |
| CAE 525 | Advanced Steel Structures | 3 |
| CAE 551 | Prestressed Concrete | 3 |
| CAE 561 | Structural Reliability and Probabilistic Bases of Design | 3 |
Transportation Engineering
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| CAE 416 | Facility Design of Transportation Systems | 3 |
| CAE 417 | Railroad Engineering and Design | 3 |
| CAE 419 | Introduction to Transportation Engineering and Design | 3 |
| CAE 540 | Asphalt and Concrete Mix Design | 3 |
| CAE 541 | Pavement Evaluation and Management | 3 |
| CAE 543 | Demand Models for Urban Transportation | 3 |
| CAE 544 | Urban Transportation Planning | 4 |
| CAE 545 | Traffic Operations and Flow Theory | 3 |
| CAE 546 | Public Transportation Systems | 3 |
| CAE 547 | Advanced Traffic Engineering | 3 |
| CAE 548 | Transportation Systems Management | 3 |
| CAE 549 | Transportation Economics, Development and Policy | 3 |
| CAE 555 | Transportation Systems Evaluation | 3 |
| CAE 568 | Transportation Asset Management | 3 |
| CAE 580 | Intelligent Transportation Systems | 3 |
| CAE 581 | Algorithms in Transportation | 3 |
| MATH 522 | Mathematical Modeling | 3 |
| MATH 542 | Stochastic Processes | 3 |
| MATH 563 | Mathematical Statistics | 3 |
| MATH 564 | Regression | 3 |
| MATH 565 | Monte Carlo Methods | 3 |
| MATH 571 | Data Preparation and Analysis | 3 |
| MATH 574 | Bayesian Computational Statistics | 3 |
