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Civil Engineering Science and Technical Electives

Effective Fall 2016

Science Elective

Select one of the following:

  • BIOL 100 Biology: Principles and Applications (3)
  • BIOL 190 Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology (3)
  • GEOL 100 Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Natural Disasters (3)
  • GEOL 101 General Geology (4)
  • GEOG 103 Physical Geography (3)
  • ATMS 117 Meteorology (3)
  • ATMS/GEOG 121 Climate Change and its Environmental Impacts (4)
  • NRES 210 Environmental Pollution (3)

Technical Electives

Students must have a total of 15 unique units from the following four categories:

Structural Design

Select one of the following (3 units)

  • CEE 480
  • CEE 481

Design Elective

 Select one of the following in addition to the Structural Design course (3 units)

  • CEE 431
  • CEE 443
  • CEE 456
  • CEE 457
  • *CEE 463
  • *CEE 469
  • *CEE 480
  • CEE 481

Restricted Elective

Select no more than one course from the following list (0-3 units)

  • CEE 495 Special Topics (3)
  • GE 484 Groundwater Hydrology (3)
  • GE 485 Waste Containment: Theory and Practice (3)
  • GEOG 405 GIS I: Geographic Information Systems and Science (4)
  • EE 362† Signals and Systems (3)
  • ME 410† Introduction to System Control (3)
  • ME 422† Introduction to Robotics (3)
  • ME 444† Intermediate Dynamics (3)

Other Electives

Select the remaining courses from the following list (6- 9 units)

  • CEE 404 Open Channel Flow (3)
  • CEE 411 Environmental Law (3)
  • CEE 414 Water Resources Engineering II (3)
  • CEE 417 Quantitative Water Quality Analysis (3)
  • CEE 418 Principles of Water Quality Modeling (3)
  • CEE 420 Advanced Portland Cement Concrete (3)
  • CEE 428 Urban Engineering (3)
  • CEE 431 Pavement Analysis and Design (3)
  • CEE 443 Foundation Engineering Design (3)
  • CEE 445 Retaining Structures Design (3)
  • CEE 446 Geosynthetics (3)
  • CEE 453 Environmental Microbiology (3)
  • CEE 456 Design of Water Treatment Systems (3)
  • CEE 457 Design of Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Systems (3)
  • CEE 458 Environmental Chemistry Concepts and Design (3)
  • CEE 459 Hazardous & Solid Waste Management & Control (3)
  • CEE 460 Construction Engineering (3)
  • CEE 463 Traffic Engineering (3)
  • CEE 465 Intelligent Transportation Systems (3)
  • CEE 469 Geometric Design of Transportation Systems (3)
  • CEE 479 Earthquake Engineering (3)
  • CEE 480 Structural Concrete Design I (3)
  • CEE 481 Structural Steel Design (3)
  • CEE 482 Design of Timber Structures (3)
  • CEE 483 Prestressed Concrete Design (3)
  • CEE 484 Bridge Engineering I (3)
  • CEE 486 Computational Structural Analysis (3)
  • CEE 487 Structural Concrete Design II (3)
  • CEE 488 Advanced Structural Steel Design (3)
  • EE 220 Circuits I (3)
  • ME 311 Engineering Thermodynamics I (3)

† Course complementary to UAS minor

Students graduating under prior catalog years

For students graduating on catalogs prior to Fall 2016:

  1. Science electives listed above may be substituted for BIOL 190 or GEOL 101, see advisor
  2. Students must take a total of 18 units of Technical Electives. CEE 426 (required for Fall 2016 and beyond) may be substituted for a Technical Elective.
  3. Students must take an Emphasis Capstone in lieu of the above Design Elective. Courses marked with * do not fulfill the Emphasis Capstone requirement.