Mission

To provide engineers with graduate education in the specialized field of coastal engineering, including knowledge, skills and abilities to address coastal engineering challenges arising from coastal natural disasters.

Program Objectives

1. Provide students an understanding of the fundamental coastal engineering knowledge and principles necessary to address engineering challenges in a coastal environment, especially those arising from coastal natural disasters.
2. Provide graduate course work and research programs in coastal engineering.
3. Enable students to achieve enhanced professional development and to appreciate the technical and societal challenges existing in the practice of coastal engineering.

Program Requirements

Thirty(30), or thirty-six (36), semester hours are required for the Master of Science Degree in Engineering depending upon which of the following three options the student selects with approval of his or her department chairperson and/or advisor:

Option 1 Twenty-four (24) semester hours of coursework plus a six-hour thesis
Option 2 Twenty-seven (27) semester hours of coursework plus a three-hour project
Option 3 Thirty-six (36) semester hours of coursework

Option 1 Requires a formal written thesis, formal presentation and oral exam.
Option 2 Requires a written project report, formal presentation and oral exam.
Option 3 Requires an oral exam.

To remain in “good standing,” students must maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 (“B average).

Core Courses

The students are required to select four courses among the list of seven core courses and one of the four must be CIV 520 ADVANCED ENGINEERING ANAYLS I. The other three core courses must be approved by the Department prior to selection. The remaining courses may be chosen from the list of electives or from the other core courses with approval of the student’s advisor.

Elective Courses