Civil engineering science and technical electives
Effective Nov. 5, 2021
Science electives
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 designs
Select one of the following units (3 units)
- CEE 480
- CEE 481
Design electives
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 electives
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 474 Transportation Planning (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.