CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
Working professionals are often interested in gaining more experience, developing sharper skills and increasing their knowledge in a specific area. Graduate certificates allow you to accomplish this in only four or five courses. Courses successfully taken as part of a certificate program can also be applied toward a degree in that field if you apply and are accepted into the related master’s program.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers an Urban Water Resources Design Certificate and a Dam Engineering Certificate. The College offers 15+ certificates in a variety of other disciplines. Many courses and certificates can be completed through our E-Learning program.
Note that successful completion of the certificate program requires an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Urban Water Resources Design
This program is geared to Civil Engineers and Water Resource Professionals engaged in design of urban hydraulic and hydrologic systems in the built environment. The certificate consists of four graduate level courses. Program length can vary between 4 and 6 semesters depending upon when the student starts the program. All courses are offered in the evening, and through real time e-learning. The courses included as part of the certificate are:
Basic factors for hydraulic design and storage requirements; frequency and duration studies; runoff hydrographs; design storms and flood determinations; hydrologic and hydraulic routing; peak flow formulas; reservoir regulation; effects of land use and treatment; mathematical models including HEC-HMS. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 (or its equivalent).
Free surface flow in canals, chutes, bends, gradual and abrupt transitions, stilling basins and energy dissipators, constrictions, bridge waterways, spillways; channel delivery; water-surface profiles in artificial and natural channels; unsteady flow, wave propagation and surges; design criteria and case histories; mathematical models including HEC-RAS. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 (or its equivalent).
Current engineering approaches to reduce adverse environmental effects of urbanization. Water quality and runoff quantity. Storm water management and best management practices. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 (or its equivalent).
Credit Hours:
3
Last Offered:
Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018
Changes in channels and floodplains through time based on the governing theories of fluvial geomorphology, river hydraulics, and sediment entrainment, transport, and deposition. Analysis of various aspects of channels numberically and using different software platforms.
Prerequisites:
CEE 8503
Credit Hours:
3
Last Offered:
Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019
Theoretical and practical approaches to water resource planning, analysis, design, economics and management: ground water and surface water supply, wetlands protection, water quality, water demand projections and reservoir operation. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 or its undergraduate equivalent.
Continuation of CEE 8501 (Surface Water Hydrology). Use and application of hydrologic quality and quantity watershed models. Topics include GIS, Scale, accuracy and numerical and statistical methods.
Prerequisites:
CEE 8501 (min. grade: C)
Credit Hours:
3
Last Offered:
Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019
Includes fluvial geomorphology, streambank stabilization, dam removal, in-stream habitat enhancement, sediment transport analysis, scour at bridges and culverts, design of scour countermeasures, design of naturally and structurally stable channel systems and design of energy dissipaters.
Individual supervised study. Topic and scope must be submitted in writing to topic advisor for approval prior to registration. Requirements must be completed by the end of its semester of registration.
Credit Hours:
3
Last Offered:
Spring 2025, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Summer 2023
CRSE Attributes:
NONE
Or the remaining required course.
Dam Engineering Certificate
This program provides students with focused knowledge in the design and analysis of dams. Graduate students (MS or PhD) will be able to plan, assess, design and construct dams and related infrastructure. The certificate program will provide students with a multidisciplinary CEE educational experience, with required courses in both water resources and geotechnical engineering.
A unique aspect of this certificate program is that it leverages the expertise of our geotechnical faculty and builds upon our strong reputation in the field of water resources.
Basic factors for hydraulic design and storage requirements; frequency and duration studies; runoff hydrographs; design storms and flood determinations; hydrologic and hydraulic routing; peak flow formulas; reservoir regulation; effects of land use and treatment; mathematical models including HEC-HMS. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 (or its equivalent).
Free surface flow in canals, chutes, bends, gradual and abrupt transitions, stilling basins and energy dissipators, constrictions, bridge waterways, spillways; channel delivery; water-surface profiles in artificial and natural channels; unsteady flow, wave propagation and surges; design criteria and case histories; mathematical models including HEC-RAS. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 (or its equivalent).
Dam history; site investigation and loading; embankment, gravity, and arch dam design; hydraulic control structures and spillway design considerations; construction of dams; failure modes and risk analysis; dam performance monitoring.
Students will be required to meet the course prerequisites and maintain a "B" average. Candidates without an ABET approved Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering may be required to complete prerequisites depending on their academic background. Courses completed for the certificate would apply toward a MSCE or MSWREE should the student wish to continue.
