Civil Engineering with Concentration in Water, Environmental, and Coastal Systems, MSCivE (Boston)

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Core Requirements

From the catalog
Complete 8 semester hours from the following:

Choose 8 semester hours from:
- CIVE 5281 — Coastal Dynamics and Design
- CIVE 7250 — Environmental Chemistry
- CIVE 7251 — Environmental Biological Processes
- CIVE 7260 — Hydrologic Modeling
- CIVE 7281 — Coastal and Nearshore Hydrodynamics

Coursework Option

24 semester hours.

From the catalog
Complete 12 semester hours from the restricted electives list below.
Complete 12 semester hours from the other electives list below.

Project Option

From the catalog
Complete 12 semester hours from the restricted electives list below.
Complete 8 semester hours from the other electives list below.

CIVE 7945 — Master’s Project

Thesis Option

From the catalog
Complete 12 semester hours from the restricted electives list below.
Complete 4 semester hours from the other electives list below.
In addition to completing the thesis course, students must successfully complete the thesis submission process, including securing committee and Graduate School of Engineering signatures and submission of an electronic copy of their MS thesis to ProQuest.

CIVE 7945 — Master’s Project
CIVE 7990 — Thesis

Restricted Electives List

From the catalog
Any required core course not used to meet the required core course requirement can be taken as a restricted elective.

One of:
- CIVE 5250 — Organic Pollutants in the Environment
- CIVE 5261 — Dynamic Modeling for Environmental Investment and Policymaking
- CIVE 5271 — Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
- CIVE 5275 — Life Cycle Assessment of Materials, Products, and Infrastructure
- CIVE 5280 — Remote Sensing of the Environment
- CIVE 5363 — Climate Science, Engineering Adaptation, and Policy
- CIVE 5366 — Air Quality Engineering and Science
- CIVE 5536 — Hydrologic and Hydraulic Design
- CIVE 7100 — Time Series and Geospatial Data Sciences
- CIVE 7110 — Critical Infrastructure Resilience
- CIVE 7255 — Environmental Physical/Chemical Processes
- CIVE 7278 — Air Quality Modeling and Forecasting
- CIVE 7279 — Advanced Air Quality
- CIVE 7282 — Coastal and Hydraulic Modeling
- ME 6200 — Mathematical Methods for Mechanical Engineers 1

Other Electives List

From the catalog
Any required core course not used to meet the required core course or restricted elective requirements can be taken as another elective. Any restricted elective not used to meet the restricted elective requirement can be taken as another elective.

One of:
- CIVE 5100 — Equity in Engineering
- CIVE 5150 — Climate and Atmospheric Change
- CIVE 5260 — Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- CIVE 5670 — Global Biogeochemistry
- CIVE 7150 — Data-Driven Decision Support for Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CIVE 7151 — Urban Informatics and Processing
- EECE 7204 — Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes
- ENVR 5260 — Geographical Information Systems
- IE 6200 — Engineering Probability and Statistics
- IE 7280 — Statistical Methods in Engineering
- IE 7290 — Reliability Analysis and Risk Assessment
- MATH 7341 — Probability 2
- MATH 7343 — Applied Statistics
- MATH 7344 — Regression, ANOVA, and Design

Optional Co-op Experience

From the catalog
Complete the following (students must complete ENCP 6100 to qualify for co-op experience):

ENCP 6100 — Introduction to Cooperative Education
One of:
- ENCP 6964 — Co-op Work Experience
- ENCP 6954 — Co-op Work Experience - Half-Time
- ENCP 6955 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad - Half-Time
- ENCP 6965 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad

GPA requirements

Minimum 3.000 GPA required

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