Online Master of Science in Civil Engineering (MS)
Civil Engineering
Domestic Applicants Requirements
Program Overview
Are you ready to advance your career as a civil engineer? The University of Tennessee, Knoxville offers an online master’s degree program in Civil Engineering in three concentration areas to meet the high demand for highly qualified Civil Engineers. Whether you aspire to work in the public sector, transportation engineering, or geotechnical engineering, we can help you achieve your goals. At Tickle College of Engineering, you can access a flexible selection of courses through our fully online learning experience.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UT offers a master’s degree in Civil Engineering in three concentration areas to meet the high demand for highly qualified Civil Engineers. The program is available 100% online via Distance Education (DE). A wide selection of graduate courses is offered for DE students; courses in this program are delivered asynchronous & synchronous and posted online for students’ access at their convenience.
Licensure
There is a high market need for Civil Engineers with MS degrees to work as design engineers and there is excellent professional development growth for those who earn MS degrees. The MS degree will help you to pass the professional engineer (PE) license exam and will open opportunities for you to work as a geotechnical or transportation Engineer.
Accredited
Our graduate program is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) commission. Advance your career in civil engineering today to become part of the solution for tomorrow!
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Program Concentrations
The following three concentrations are available in the MS Civil Engineering program at UT.
Geotechnical & Materials Engineering
The geotechnical engineer is responsible for the subsurface investigation and the analysis of soil properties which provide the basis of the foundation design. The materials engineer must be familiar with the properties of construction and structural materials so that an economic use of resources can be included in the design process.
Transportation & Infrastructure Engineering
Featured Courses
Students who choose the Public Works Engineering concentration will take courses such as the following:
Transportation planning process and travel patterns, data collection, trip generation, trip distribution, mode split, and traffic assignment. Applications of travel demand modeling. Proposing transportation alternatives and evaluation. Social, economic, and environmental impacts of transportation. Innovative travel demand modeling techniques.
Principles of limiting equilibrium, infinite slopes, design of soil slopes using Swedish circle method, Ordinary method of slices, Bishop methods, Spencer method, Chen and Morgenstern method, and an introduction to other slope stability methods. Influence of drawdown and seepage on slope stability, slope stabilization techniques, slope monitoring methods, and introduction to rock slope stability.
Characteristics of human, vehicle, and roadway in transportation system; microscopic and macroscopic traffic models; elements of transportation/highway safety.
Analysis of free and forced vibrations, and transient response of structures having many degrees of freedom; elastoplastic behavior considered for structural systems; earthquake design and response of structures.
