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Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering (2014/02/09)
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• Integrated assessment of environmental and socioeconomic impacts of infrastructural expansion

• Energy-water-environment nexus analysis and modeling

• trategic infrastructure planning under climate change

• Mobile sensing, inverse modeling and data assimilation

• Risk-informed management and post-disaster operations of lifeline networks

• Reliability analysis of sequential failures in structures for risk-informed design and maintenance

3.7.1.2. Required and Recommended Courses

This program area focuses on fundamental sciences and engineering principles associated with planning, de-
signing, and managing sustainable and resilient CEE infrastructure systems and their interactions. Applica-

tion domains are interdisciplinary in nature, which include, but are not limited to: construction management,

geotechnical and structural systems engineering, transportation systems analysis, logistics systems design,

water system design and operation, natural resource and energy management, environmental engineering,

and sustainability-related policies. The student in this program not only acquires a broad range of domain
knowledge from the traditional civil and environmental engineering areas, but also learns holistic systems

analysis tools such as optimization and decision support, probability and statistics, and environmental and

natural resources economics, often by taking advanced courses outside of CEE. Our graduates are especially

well-suited for work in government agencies and laboratories, consulting engineering firms and other indus-

try, sustainability advocacy organizations, as well as academic institutions.

Students interested in this program may also want to consider enrolling in the graduate option in Energy and

Sustainability Engineering (EaSE) and the Global Leaders option to the SRIS program.

Course requirements and recommendations are listed below. Ph.D. students are also required to complete the

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Qualification Procedure in CEE.

Core courses

All students are required to take:

• CEE 598 SUS Sustainable Urban Systems

• CEE 595 SRS Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Systems seminar (all semesters enrolled in the

program)

and one of the following two courses:

• CEE 498-SIS Infrastructure Sustainability and Systems Analysis

• CEE 491 Decision and Risk Analysis

M.S. students are encouraged and Ph.D. students are required to select at least one additional core course re-

lated to systems theory and methods, such as the following:

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