UND Graduate School
Engineering Combined Degree Program
Environmental Engineering Degree Program
Graduate Course Descriptions
Graduate Information and Requirements
Information and Requirements
The Department of Civil Engineering offers graduate programs leading to the Master of Engineering degree and the Master of Science degree. The Master of Engineering degree permits specialization in the following options: Soils-Structures, Environmental-Water Resources, and General Civil Engineering. The Master of Engineering degree program is designed to provide an opportunity for engineers to achieve formal education beyond the Baccalaureate level with a strong and directed emphasis toward the practice of engineering. The focus of the program is on the development of competency in the area of engineering design. The goal of the program is development of the student as a practitioner capable of systematically solving complex problems of society within his or her field.
The department offers a combined Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering/Master of Engineering degree program. The intention of the combined program is to allow qualified students to complete requirements for both a baccalaureate degree and a master’s degree in one year beyond the time required to complete the baccalaureate degree. All requirements for both degrees must be met, but up to six credits of prior-approved coursework may be double-counted toward each of the two degrees. Double-counted credits may not include prescribed courses required for the BSCE degree but may include courses used to meet civil engineering electives taken for the BSCE degree.
The Department of Civil Engineering also participates in an interdisciplinary Ph.D. Engineering Program. For information please contact the Civil Engineering Department.
Admission Requirements for Master of Engineering program:
1. Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from an ABET accredited or equivalent program.
2. Graduate Record Examination General Test for applicants from non-ABET accredited programs.
Admission Requirements for Master of Science program in Civil Engineering:
1. Minimum general admission requirements in the Admission section of the Graduate catalog.
2. A baccalaureate degree in engineering or science from a recognized college or university.
3. Graduate Record Examination scores on the General Test will be required for those holding undergraduate degrees from other than ABET-accredited programs.
Degree Requirements for Master of Engineering program:
1. Total of thirty (30) credit hours.
2. a) Soils-Structures option requires CIEN 501, CIEN 502 and ME 529.
b) Environmental option requires CIEN 531, CIEN 532, and CIEN 533.
c) Water Resources option requires CIEN 523, CIEN 524 and Geol 530 CIEN 525 or GEOL 417.
d) General Civil option requires CIEN 501, CIEN 523 and CIEN 531.
e) Each option requires six (6) credit hours of Engr 595.
3. The remaining fifteen (15) credit hours of electives are chosen from 300, 400 or 500 level engineering, physical sciences, life sciences, computer science, and mathematics.
Degree Requirements for Master of Science Program:
Degree requirements will be those listed for the M.S. degree, both for the thesis option and the non-thesis option. There are no specific departmental degree requirements beyond those listed in the catalog for the M.S. degree.
Graduate Course Descriptions
501. Mechanics of Materials II. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Engr 203. Analysis of stress and strain, theories of failure, inelastic material behavior, energy methods, torsion of noncircular and thin-walled sections, unsymmetrical bending, shear center, curved beams.
502. Structural Stability. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Engr 203. Stability of columns, beam-columns and frames, inelastic buckling, critical loads by the energy method, torsional buckling.
503. Structural Dynamics. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Engr 202 and Engr 203. Single-degree and multi-degree of freedom structures, continuous systems, earthquake response of linear buildings, structural dynamics in building codes, base isolation.
523. Applied Hydraulics. 3 credits repeatable to 9 (when topics vary). Prerequisite: CIEN 423. Study of advanced topics in hydraulics. Computer applications. Content will vary.
524. Open Channel Hydraulics. 3 credits. Prerequisite: CIEN 306. Study of advanced topics in open channel hydraulics. Computer applications.
525. Surface Hydrology. 3 credits. Prerequisite: CIEN 421. Extreme rainfalls and flood frequency analysis, regionalization; runoff generations, routings, and basin modeling; urban stormwater design; GIS and remote sensing applications in hydrology; recent techniques and development in surface hydrology. S
531. Environmental Engineering III. 3 credits. Prerequisite: CIEN 431. Unit Operation and process design for water and wastewater treatment; physical, chemical, and biological systems; plant design project, computer-assigned design analysis.
532. Environmental Engineering IV. 3 credits. Prerequisite: CIEN 431. Advanced theory and special methods in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment including treatment plant control, equipment studies, nutrient removal, tertiary treatment and toxic pollutants control.
533. Industrial Wastes. 3 credits. Prerequisite: CIEN 431. Industrial processes and waste characterization, regulatory law, specialized treatment systems, hazardous wastes, economic analysis; plant tours of potato, sugar, meat, dairy, paper and pulp products and metal plating industries.
535. Hazardous Waste Management. 3 credits. Prerequisites: CIEN 306 and Chem 121. Regulations, generation, storage, transportation, disposal, classification, fate and transport of contaminants, environmental audits, pollution prevention and management facilities, remediation alternatives, physical-chemical treatment, bioremediation, stabilization/solidification, thermal processes.
551. Plate and Slab Structures. 3 credits. Prerequisites: Engr 203 and CIEN 351. Classical plate bending theory, rectangular and circular plates, slab analysis by energy and numerical methods, anisotropic plates, large deflection theory, buckling of thin plates.
552. Thin Shell Structures. 3 credits. Prerequisites: Engr 203 and CIEN 351. Differential geometry of shell theory, membrane and bending theories of shells, shells of revolution, stress analysis of domes, pressure vessels, and storage tanks, numerical methods, buckling of shells.
555. Prestressed Concrete—Analysis and Design. 3 credits. Prerequisite: CIEN 453. Materials and methods of prestressing, loss of prestress, flexural design by service-load and ultimate-strength methods, anchorage zone stresses, shear and torsion design.
556. Numerical and Matrix Methods of Structural Analysis. 3 credits. Prerequisite: CIEN 351. Methods of successive approximations and numerical procedures for solution of complex structural problems, matrix formulation of structural problems, flexibility and stiffness methods of analysis.
590. Special Topics. Credit arranged. Prerequisite: Department approval. Investigation of special topics dictated by student and faculty interests. May be repeated up to a total of 6 credits.
591. Civil Engineering Research. Credit arranged. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.
595. Design Project. 3 to 6 credits. Prerequisite: Restricted to the Master of Engineering student candidate and subject to approval by the student’s advisor. A three to six credit course of engineering design experience involving individual effort and formal written report. S/U grading only.
434. Environmental Engineering Lab. 4 credits.
452. Timber Engineering. 3 credits. |
