Master of Engineering in Urban Systems Engineering
Curriculum
The Master of Engineering in Urban Systems Engineering program prepares students to design and maintain tomorrow’s sustainable and resilient cities. The need for sustainable and resilient cities is greater than ever, with over two-thirds of the world’s population projected to live in urban areas by 2050 and global urban cities facing myriad challenges in managing their transportation, energy, water, and waste systems. Engineers and city planners in both the public and private sector must approach cities as an integrated system of subsystems to efficiently manage and optimize resources.
To this end, the Master of Engineering in Urban Systems Engineering program integrates coursework in multiple engineering disciplines to prepare students with a deeper understanding of the intricacies of urban infrastructure systems and their interconnections and dependencies as they function as a system of systems. Students will learn how to design and manage urban infrastructure systems; how infrastructure engineering projects are planned, designed, funded, budgeted, and built; and how ever-increasing amounts of data can be used to design, operate, and understand more sustainable urban infrastructure systems.
The program combines: (1) fundamental courses in data analytics, systems analysis, and geographic information systems to understand how to approach cities as a system of systems, (2) breadth courses in areas of civil infrastructure systems, buildings and energy systems, environmental systems, and transportation systems to gain exposure to individual urban infrastructure subsystems, and (3) depth courses via technical electives in subsystem topic areas of interest.
| Minimum Credits Required | 30 |
| Maximum 400-Level Credit | 9 |
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Core Courses | (6) | |
| CAE 539 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | 3 |
| CAE 575 | Systems Analysis in Civil Engineering | 3 |
| Data Analytics Requirement | (3) | |
| Select one course from the following: | 3 | |
| Statistical Analysis of Engineering Data | 3 | |
| Data Mining | 3 | |
| Machine Learning | 3 | |
| Probability and Statistics | 3 | |
| Regression | 3 | |
| Data Driven Modeling | 3 | |
| Engineering Analysis I | 3 | |
| Applied Computational Statistics for Analytics | 3 | |
| Civil Infrastructure Systems | (3) | |
| Select at least one course from the following: | 3 | |
| Homeland Security Concerns in Engineering Systems | 3 | |
| Building Envelope Rehabilitation | 3 | |
| Structural Forensic Engineering | 3 | |
| Structural Reliability and Probabilistic Bases of Design | 3 | |
| Construction Methods, Cost Estimating, and Project Budgeting | 3 | |
| Legal Issues in Civil Engineering | 3 | |
| Construction Business Operations and Cost Accounting & Control | 3 | |
| Construction Management with Building Information Modeling | 3 | |
| Economic Decision Analysis in Civil Engineering | 3 | |
| Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or "Drones") for Construction Projects | 3 | |
| Real Estate Fundamentals for Engineers and Architects | 3 | |
| Buildings and Energy Systems | (3) | |
| Select at least one course from the following: | 3 | |
| Building Science | 3 | |
| Building Energy Modeling | 3 | |
| HVAC Systems Design | 3 | |
or CAE 464 | HVAC Systems Design | |
| Energy Conservation in Buildings | 3 | |
or CAE 465 | Energy Conservation in Buildings | |
| Control of Building Environmental Systems | 3 | |
| Applied Building Energy Modeling | 3 | |
| Introduction to Sustainable Building Design | 3 | |
| Net Zero Energy Building Design I | 3 | |
| Net Zero Energy Building Design II | 3 | |
| Renewable Energy Technologies | 3 | |
| Energy, Environment, and Economics | 3 | |
| Elements of Sustainable Energy | 3 | |
| Elements of Smart Grid | 3 | |
| Nuclear, Fossil-Fuel, and Sustainable Energy Systems | 3 | |
| Environmental Systems | (3) | |
| Select at least one course from the following: | 3 | |
| Hydraulics, Hydrology, and Their Applications | 3 | |
| Stormwater Management | 3 | |
| Introduction to Water Resources Engineering | 3 | |
| Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Design | 3 | |
| Water and Wastewater Engineering | 3 | |
| Introduction to Air Pollution Control | 3 | |
| Environmental Chemistry | 3 | |
| Chemodynamics | 3 | |
| Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety | 3 | |
or ENVE 403 | Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety | |
| Global Environmental Change and Sustainability Analysis | 3 | |
or ENVE 422 | Global Environmental Change and Sustainability Analysis | |
| Geoenvironmental Engineering | 3 | |
or ENVE 423 | Geoenvironmental Engineering | |
| Modeling of Environmental Systems | 3 | |
| Physicochemical Processes in Environmental Engineering | 3 | |
| Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage | 3 | |
or ENVE 444 | Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage | |
| Indoor Air Pollution | 3 | |
| Hazardous Waste Engineering | 3 | |
| Transportation Systems | (3) | |
| Select at least one course from the following: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Transportation Engineering and Design | 3 | |
| Demand Models for Urban Transportation | 3 | |
| Urban Transportation Planning | 4 | |
| Traffic Operations and Flow Theory | 3 | |
| Public Transportation Systems | 3 | |
| Advanced Traffic Engineering | 3 | |
| Transportation Systems Management | 3 | |
| Transportation Economics, Development and Policy | 3 | |
| Transportation Asset Management | 3 | |
| Intelligent Transportation Systems | 3 | |
| General Electives | (9) | |
| Select elective courses in areas of interest relevant to urban systems engineering | 9 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 30 | |
Up to 12 credit hours of 400-level courses can be applied to the program.
A maximum of 4 credit hours of 597 Special Problems can be applied to the degree program.
