N.C. A&T

Civil Engineering

School/College: College of Engineering
Degree(s) Offered: Master of Science
Graduate Coordinator: Shoou-Yuh Chang Email: chang@ncat.edu Phone: 336-334-7737
Department Chair: Sameer Hamoush Email: sameer@ncat.edu Phone: 336-334-7575

The Master of Science in Civil Engineering program is administered by the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) Department and is designed to accommodate graduates from Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Architectural Engineering. The program also accepts qualified graduates from other closely related academic fields. The objective of the Civil Engineering graduate program is to provide educational opportunities to professionals in the Piedmont Triad for advanced study and research in the following areas: Environmental/Water Resources, Structures/Geotechnical, Transportation/Regional Development, Construction Management, and Energy Resources/ Systems. One or more courses in each of the above areas are scheduled every semester and are offered when student demand meets the University’s minimum enrollment requirement. Students may, therefore, be required to adjust their curriculum plan in response to the availability of courses.

Additional Admission Requirements

An undergraduate degree from an ABET accredited Civil Engineering, Architectural Engineering, or Environmental Engineering program with a minimum of 3.0 (out of 4.0) GPA on the overall undergraduate program of study. If the undergraduate degree is not from an ABET accredited CAEE program, or the undergraduate degree is not engineering but in a closely related curriculum with a substantial engineering science content, the applicant will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Degree Requirements

All students pursuing a Master of Science in Civil Engineering must complete 30 credit hours.

Subject Core Course (3 Credit Hours)

• CIEN 644 Finite Element Analysis

• CIEN 700 Emerging Technologies in Civil Engineering

• CIEN 702 Civil Engineering System Analysis

• CIEN 721 Advanced Soil Testing for Engineering Purposes

Course Subject Area (27 Credit Hours)

• CIEN 600 Expert Systems Applications in Civil Engineering

• CIEN 610 Water and Waste/water Analysis

• CIEN 614 Stream Water Quality Modeling

• CIEN 616 Solid Waste Management

• CIEN 618 Air Pollution Control

• CIEN 620 Foundation Design I

• CIEN 622 Soil Behavior

• CIEN 624 Seepage and Earth Structures

• CIEN 626 Soil and Site Improvement

• CIEN 628 Applied Geotechnical Engineering Analysis and Design

• CIEN 630 Advanced Construction Materials

• CIEN 640 Advanced Structural Analysis

• CIEN 641 Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures

• CIEN 642 Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures

• CIEN 644 Finite Element Analysis I

• CIEN 646 Structural Design in Steel

• CIEN 648 Structural Design in Wood

• CIEN 650 Geometric Design in Highways

• CIEN 652 Urban Transportation Planning

• CIEN 656 Traffic Engineering

• CIEN 658 Pavement Design

• CIEN 660 Water Resources System Analysis

• CIEN 662 Water Resources Engineering

• CIEN 664 Open Channel Flow

• CIEN 668 Subsurface Hydrology

• CIEN 670 Construction Engineering and Management

• CIEN 699 Special Projects

• CIEN 700 Emerging Technologies in Civil Engineering

• CIEN 702 Civil Engineering Systems Analysis

• CIEN 710 Hazardous Waste Management

• CIEN 712 Systems Approach in Waste Management

• CIEN 720 Theoretical Soil Mechanics

• CIEN 721 Advanced Soil Testing for Engineering Purposes

• CIEN 722 Design of Reinforced Earth Structures

• CIEN 724 Constitutive Modeling for Geological Media

• CIEN 726 Foundation Design II

• CIEN 729 Geotechnical Aspects of Earthquake Engineering

• CIEN 730 Reinforced Concrete II

• CIEN 731 Steel Structures II

• CIEN 732 Matrix Analysis of Structures

• CIEN 733 Advanced Reinforced Concrete

• CIEN 734 Advanced Structural Steel

• CIEN 735 Wind & Earthquake Design

• CIEN 736 Facility Planning and Site Analysis

• CIEN 737 Computer-Aided Project Management

• CIEN 738 Energy Management Planning

• CIEN 739 Advanced Energy Conservation Systems

• CIEN 740 Energy Maintenance and Management

• CIEN 741 Professional Practice and Labor Relations

• CIEN 752 Public Transportation Systems

• CIEN 754 Modeling of Transportation Systems

• CIEN 756 Highway Operations and Safety

• CIEN 766 Design of Hydraulic Structures and Machinery

• CIEN 767 Value Analysis in the Design and Construction of Buildings

• CIEN 768 Illuminating and Power Systems for Built Environments

• CIEN 769 Advanced HVAC System Design and Analysis

• CIEN 770 Energy Management Planning

• CIEN 771 Energy Conservation Systems

• CIEN 772 Measurement &Verification of Energy Use in Built Env.

• CIEN 785 Selected Topics

• CIEN 786 Special Projects

• CIEN 792 Civil Engineering Master’s Seminar

• CIEN 793 Master’s Supervised Teaching

• CIEN 794 Master’s Supervised Research

• CIEN 796 Master’s Project

• CIEN 797 Master’s Thesis

Requirements specific to specializations/program options/tracks:

Project Option: 27 Coursework Hours 3

Thesis Option: 24 Coursework Hours 6

A student pursuing a Master of Science in Civil Engineering has the following three options: All coursework option, Project option, or Thesis option.

All students pursuing a Master of Science in Civil Engineering must complete at least one course of the group of Core Courses, six credit hours of advanced math courses (or equivalent math courses), and must enroll in the Master’s Seminar (CIEN 792) every semester in residence.

All options require a minimum of thirty (30) credit hours and the formation of a formal graduate committee. The graduate committee will consist of the advisor and two additional faculty members selected in agreement between the advisor and the student. The plan of study should be prepared by the student and must be approved by the graduate committee. Specifically, only the courses approved by the graduate committee can be used to satisfy the minimum requirements set forth as “approved course work.” At least half of the credit hours counted in the “approved coursework” to satisfy the requirements for a master’s degree must be 700 level courses, that is, courses open only to graduate students. Furthermore, courses numbered 790 and above cannot be used to satisfy the “approved course work” requirements, with the only exceptions as listed below:

All Course Work Option: This option requires thirty (30) credit hours of “approved course work” plus a comprehensive examination that would be administered by the student’s graduate committee during the last semester in residence.

Project Option: The project option requires twenty-seven (27) credit hours of “approved course work. This option is intended for students wishing to investigate a design problem of current interest to industry or to pursue a practical application. These students will have to demonstrate to the committee their capacity to perform and report work adequately.

Thesis Option: This option requires twenty-four (24) credit hours of “approved course work” and six (6) credit hours of Master’s Thesis (CIEN 797). The student’s graduate committee must formally examine the thesis content and quality, and judge the thesis defense. Furthermore, the thesis MUST follow the format required by The Graduate School.

Changing the selected option, for example from thesis to project, requires approval of the Graduate advisor and the Graduate Program Coordinator and may lead to loss of credit for thesis or project credits.

Committees

The graduate committee will consist of the advisor and two additional faculty members selected in agreement between the advisor and the student.

Directory of Faculty

Taher Abu-Lebdeh, Assistant Professor, B.S., M.S., Yarmouk University, Jordan; Ph.D., Louisiana State University; Professional Engineer
Shoou-Yuh Chang, Professor and DOE Samuel Massie Chair, B.S., M.S., National Taiwan University; M.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Professional Engineer
Wonchang Choi, Assistant Professor, B.S., Kyung-hee University; B.S., M.S., Hong-ik university; Ph.D., North Carolina State University.
Ellie Fini, Assistant Professor, B.S., Isfahan University of Technology; B.S., M.S., Sharif University of Technology ; Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
Sameer A. Hamoush, Professor, B.S., University of Damascus; M.S., University of Nebraska; Ph.D., North Carolina State University; Professional Engineer
Manoj K. Jha, Assistant Professor, B.E., Tribhuva University; M.E. Asian Insitute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., Iowa State University
Stephanie Luster-Teasley, Associate Professor of Civil and Chemical Engineering, B.S., North Carolina A&T State University; Ph.D., Michigan State University
Ahmed Megri, Associate Professor, B.S., Constantine University (Algeria), MS Science and PhD, INSA (Lyon Institute of Technology) at Lyon (France), HDR (Habilitation) from Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, Sorbonne Universities (Paris VI), France
Nabil Nassif, Assistant Professor, B.S., University of Damascus; B.S., M.S., University of Damascus; Ph.D., Quebec University, Canada
Miguel Picornell, Professor and Coordinator, Civil Engineering Program, B.S., Madrid Polytechnic University; M.S., Ph.D., Texas A&M University; Professional Engineer

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