Civil engineering science and technical electives

Effective Nov. 5, 2021

Science elective

Select one of the following:

  • BIOL 100A Biology: Principles and Applications (3)
  • BIOL 190A 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

Must have a total of 15 unique units from the following four categories

Structural design

Select one of the following units (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 (0-4 units):

  • CEE 460‡ Construction Engineering (3)
  • CEE 472‡ Construction Estimating (3)
  • CEE 473‡ Construction Scheduling (3)
  • 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 463 Traffic Engineering (3)
  • CEE 465 Intelligent Transportation Systems (3)
  • CEE 469 Geometric Design of Transportation Systems (3)
  • CEE 475 Principles of Earthquake Engineering Analysis (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)
  • CEE 489 Dynamics of Structures (3)
  • EE 220 Circuits I (3)
  • ENGR 475 Leadership for Engineers (3)
  • ME 311 Engineering Thermodynamics I (3)

‡ These courses are required as part of the Construction Management (CM) minor; however, only one of these courses may double-count as a technical elective. Students who are not enrolled in the CM minor can only apply one of these courses to the BS-CE degree program.

† These courses are part of the Unmanned Autonomous Systems (UAS) minor program.