Engineering and Public Policy, MS (Boston)
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Sustainable Engineering and Systems Modeling Requirements
From the catalog
Complete 12 semester hours from the following:
- Choose 12 semester hours from:
- One of:
- CIVE 5275 — Life Cycle Assessment of Materials, Products, and Infrastructure
- CIVE 5363 — Climate Science, Engineering Adaptation, and Policy
- CIVE 5368 — Air Quality Management
- CIVE 6566 — Sustainable Urban Transportation: Netherlands
- CIVE 6777 — Climate Hazards and Resilient Cities Abroad
- CIVE 6778 — Climate Adaptation and Policy Abroad
- CIVE 7100 — Time Series and Geospatial Data Sciences
- CIVE 7110 — Critical Infrastructure Resilience
- CIVE 7150 — Data-Driven Decision Support for Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CIVE 7151 — Urban Informatics and Processing
- CIVE 7155 — Dynamics and Control of Infrastructure Systems
- EECE 5670 — Sustainable Energy: Materials, Conversion, Storage, and Usage
- IE 5500 — Systems Engineering in Public Programs
- IE 5640 — Data Mining for Engineering Applications
- IE 6200 — Engineering Probability and Statistics
- IE 7280 — Statistical Methods in Engineering
- SBSY 5100 — Sustainable Design and Technologies in Construction
- SBSY 5200 — Sustainable Engineering Systems for Buildings
- SBSY 5400 — Sustainable Building Systems Seminar
Public Policy and Analysis Requirements
From the catalog
Complete 8 semester hours from the following:
- Choose 8 semester hours from:
- INSH 5301 — Introduction to Computational Statistics
- INSH 6300 — Research Methods in the Social Sciences
- INSH 6500 — Statistical Analysis
- INSH 7400 — Quantitative Analysis
- LPSC 7311 — Strategizing Public Policy
- PPUA 5246 — Participatory Modeling for Collaborative Decision Making
- PPUA 5260 — Ecological Economics
- PPUA 5263 — Geographic Information Systems for Urban and Regional Policy
- PPUA 6212 — Research Toolkit for Urban and Regional Policy: Project Management
- PPUA 6502 — Economic Analysis for Policy and Planning
- PPUA 6506 — Techniques of Policy Analysis
- PPUA 6509 — Techniques of Program Evaluation
- PPUA 6532 — Building Resilience into Local Government
- PPUA 7237 — Advanced Spatial Analysis of Urban Systems
Coursework Option
12 semester hours.
From the catalog
Complete 12 semester hours from the Elective Course List below.
Project Option
From the catalog
Complete 8 semester hours from the Elective Course List below.
- CIVE 7945 — Master’s Project
Thesis Option
From the catalog
Complete 4 semester hours from the Elective Course 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.
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:
Elective Course List
- One of:
- CIVE 5150 — Climate and Atmospheric Change
- CIVE 5250 — Organic Pollutants in the Environment
- CIVE 5271 — Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
- CIVE 5280 — Remote Sensing of the Environment
- CIVE 5281 — Coastal Dynamics and Design
- CIVE 5670 — Global Biogeochemistry
- CIVE 7230 — Legal Aspects of Civil Engineering
- CIVE 7392 — Special Topics in Environmental Engineering
- EMGT 6225 — Economic Decision Making
- ENVR 5210 — Environmental Planning
- ENVR 5260 — Geographical Information Systems
- ENVR 6102 — Environmental Science and Policy Seminar 2
- INSH 7400 — Quantitative Analysis
- INTL 5100 — Climate and Development
- LPSC 7311 — Strategizing Public Policy
- LPSC 7312 — Cities, Sustainability, and Climate Change
- PHTH 5214 — Environmental Health
- PHTH 5230 — Global Health
- PPUA 5249 — Sustainable Urban Coastal Policy
- PPUA 5262 — Big Data for Cities
- PPUA 5263 — Geographic Information Systems for Urban and Regional Policy
- PPUA 5264 — Energy Democracy and Climate Justice: Technology, Policy, and Social Change
- PPUA 5268 — International Environmental Policy
- PPUA 5270 — Food Systems and Public Policy
- PPUA 6101 — Environmental Science and Policy Seminar 1
- PPUA 6201 — The 21st-Century City: Urban Opportunities and Challenges in a Global Context
- PPUA 7346 — Resilient Cities
GPA requirements
- 32 total semester hours required (33 with optional co-op) Minimum 3.000 GPA required
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