Lyles School of Civil Engineering (Graduate)

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Website URL:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/CE/Academics/Graduate

Department/School Head:

Dr. Rao S. Govindaraju, School Head

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

The Purdue Burke Civil Engineering Graduate Program has nearly 400 students working toward either a Master’s or Ph.D. degree. The Master’s degree program is designed to be flexible so that students can work with faculty members to develop a plan of study tailored to their professional goals. It also allows them to acquire the specialized skills that are increasingly necessary for professional practice (ASCE Policy Statement 465). The Ph.D. degree provides an opportunity for more in-depth study necessary for students who want to pursue research and academic careers.

Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy

Master of Science in Civil Engineering

Master’s degrees are offered with both a thesis option and a non-thesis option. Twenty-one course credit hours plus an acceptable thesis (of at least nine research hours) are required for a thesis option master’s degree. Thirty course credit hours are required for a non-thesis option degree. An online MSCE program is also available.

Doctor of Philosophy Program.

A minimum of 90 credit hours are required for the Ph.D.; 48 hours of coursework and 42 hours of research. Up to 30 credits from one master’s degree may be transferred to the Ph.D. plan of study. An acceptable dissertation is required of all candidates.

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

Architectural Engineering, Construction Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Geomatics Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydraulics, and Hydrologic Engineering, Materials Engineering, Structural Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering, Ecological Science and Engineering, Transportation and Infrastructure Systems, Professional Masters (Civil Engineering - Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Management)

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Dulcy Abraham
Ernest Blatchley
Antonio Bobet
Mark Bowman
Darcy Bullock
Hubo Cai
Robert Connor
Melba Crawford
Phillip Dunston
Shirley Dyke
Jon Fricker
Robert Frosch
Nadia Gkritza
Rao Govindaraju
Ayman Habib
John Haddock
Makarand Hastak
Inez Hua
Ayhan Irfanoglu
Robert Jacko
Chad Jafvert
Panagiota Karava
Samuel Labi
Luna Lu
Dennis Lyn
Venkatesh Merwade
Loring Nies
Jan Olek
Monica Prezzi
Ming Qu
Julio Ramirez
P. Suresh Rao
Rodrigo Salgado
Jie Shan
Joseph Sinfield
Kumares Sinha
Andrew Tarko
Thanos Tzempelikos
Satish Ukkusuri
Andrew Whelton
Amit Varma
Pablo Zavattieri

Associate Professor

W. Travis Horton
Mohammad Jahanshahi
Arun Prakash
Maria Caterina Santagata
Akanshu Sharma
Cary Troy
Zhi (George) Zhou

Assistant Professor

Antoine Aubeneau
Brandon Boor
Yiheng Feng
Sogand Hasanzadeh
Jinha Jung
Nusrat Jung
Jungil Seo
Amisha Shah
Mirian Velay-Lizancos
Christopher Williams
David Yu

Emeritus Faculty

James Bethel
John Bell
Philippe Bourdeau
Luh-Maan Chang
Wai-Fah Chen
Menashi Cohen
Sidney Diamond
Vincent Drnevich
John Gaunt
Daniel Halpin
Milton Harr
John Havers
Garrett Jeong
Steven Johnson
Robert Lee
V. James Meyers
Edward Mikhail
Gilbert Satterly
Charles Scholer
C. Douglas Sutton
Edward Ting
Boudewijn van Gelder
Thomas White
Douglas Winslow

Programs

• Civil Engineering, PHD
• Geomatics Engineering, Concentration, (Graduate)
• Hydraulics and Hydrologic Engineering, Concentration, (Graduate)
• Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Concentration, (Graduate)

• Civil Engineering, MSCE
• Geomatics Engineering, Concentration, (Graduate)
• Structural Engineering

Courses

• CE 51200 - The Comprehensive Urban Planning Process
• CE 51300 - Lighting In Buildings
• CE 51401 - Building Controls
• CE 51501 - Building Energy Audits
• CE 52000 - Construction Project Control Systems
• CE 52100 - Construction Business Management
• CE 52200 - Computer Applications In Construction
• CE 52300 - Selection And Utilization Of Construction Equipment
• CE 52400 - Legal Aspects In Engineering Practice
• CE 52600 - Construction Of Temporary Facilities
• CE 52700 - Analytical Methods For The Design Of Construction Operations Sem. 1
• CE 53000 - Properties And Production Of Concrete
• CE 53500 - Bituminous Materials And Mixtures
• CE 53800 - Experimental Methods In Construction Materials Research
• CE 54000 - Open Channel Hydraulics
• CE 54200 - Hydrology
• CE 54300 - Coastal Engineering
• CE 54400 - Subsurface Hydrology
• CE 54500 - Sediment Transport Engineering
• CE 54700 - Transport Processes In Surface Waters
• CE 54900 - Computational Watershed Hydrology
• CE 55000 - Physico-Chemical Processes In Environmental Engineering I
• CE 55700 - Air Quality Management
• CE 55900 - Water Quality Modeling
• CE 56000 - Public Mass Transportation
• CE 56100 - Transportation Systems Evaluation
• CE 56200 - Geometric Design Of Highways
• CE 56300 - Airport Design
• CE 56500 - Traffic Engineering: Operations And Controls
• CE 56600 - Transportation Planning
• CE 56700 - Highway Traffic And Safety Analysis
• CE 56800 - Highway Infrastructure Management Systems
• CE 57000 - Advanced Structural Mechanics
• CE 57100 - Earthquake Engineering
• CE 57200 - Prestressed Concrete Design
• CE 57300 - Structural Dynamics
• CE 57500 - Experimental Methods In Structural Engineering
• CE 57600 - Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design
• CE 57900 - Structural Stability
• CE 58000 - Advanced Geotechnical Engineering
• CE 58300 - Slopes And Retaining Structures
• CE 58400 - Foundation Analysis And Design
• CE 58700 - Soil Dynamics
• CE 59100 - Advanced Structural Steel Design
• CE 59200 - Plastic Design Of Steel Structures
• CE 59300 - Environmental Geotechnology
• CE 59400 - Transportation Systems Analysis
• CE 59500 - Finite Elements In Elasticity
• CE 59601 - Entrepreneurship And Business Strategy In Engineering
• CE 59700 - Civil Engineering Projects
• CE 59800 - Graduate Professional Internship
• CE 59801 - Breakthrough Thinking For Complex Challenges
• CE 61200 - Physical Geodesy
• CE 61400 - Statistical And Econometric Methods I
• CE 61500 - Statistical And Econometric Methods II
• CE 63100 - Advanced Concrete And Aggregates
• CE 66100 - Algorithms In Transportation
• CE 67100 - Behavior Of Metal Structures
• CE 67200 - Advanced Topics In Structural Engineering
• CE 67401 - Bridge Engineering
• CE 67500 - Finite Element Analysis
• CE 67600 - Behavior Of Reinforced Concrete Members
• CE 68100 - Engineering Properties Of Soils
• CE 68200 - Ground Water And Seepage
• CE 68400 - Geological Engineering
• CE 68500 - Rock Mechanics
• CE 68600 - Underground Construction
• CE 68901 - Plasticity Theory
• CE 69100 - Civil Engineering Seminar
• CE 69500 - Probabilistic Methods In Geotechnical Engineering
• CE 69700 - Civil Engineering Projects
• CE 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• CE 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

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