DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS

Graduate Program in Transportation Engineering

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics gives you a broad range of professional choices for your specialization needs – composites, construction management, engineering mechanics, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering or water resources engineering. You will work directly with faculty to develop the expertise you need to succeed.

With the ASCE’s civil engineering body of knowledge for the 21st century guidelines, a graduate study is becoming increasingly necessary in order to strive in any civil engineering professional area of your choice. The department offers a graduate program that lead to a Master of Science in Civil Engineering degree. This program offers advanced courses in transportation engineering such as highway geometric design, traffic engineering, intelligent transportation systems, urban transportation planning, travel demand modeling, urban public transportation, pavement design, GIS application in transportation engineering, statistics, urban hydrology, highway drainage, etc.

You may choose a thesis option or a non-thesis option to earn your master's degree in transportation engineering. The thesis option requires a minimum of 30 credit hours with six of those hours being a research thesis. The non-thesis option requires a minimum of 30 credit hours but a student has a choice to take three credit hours of a master's project , which is a relatively smaller scale research component or a 30-semester credit hour coursework-only option . Every semester the department offers at least one graduate course in each of the focus areas. So you will not have to wait to get the classes you need. Graduate courses are typically held during the evening hours to accommodate professional practicing engineers who may wish to pursue their master’s studies on a part-time basis.

For regular admission to a Master's Degree program in Transportation Engineering at University of Dayton, the student should have earned a bachelor's degree in a relevant field from an accredited program. Students may be admitted to the program on a Provisional basis with unsatisfactory undergraduate GPA on a case-by-case basis; however, they may need to make up coursework at the basic level of undergraduate engineering to be eligible for the M.S. in Transportation Engineering. Interested students should consult Dr. Deogratias Eustace

The Master's degree program requires a minimum of 30 graduate credits:

Course Requirements

• Fifteen to eighteen semester hours in civil engineering courses

• Six to nine semester hours of engineering or basic science electives to be chosen from current course offerings.

Transportation Engineering Courses Currently Published in the Graduate Catalogue:

CEE 515 Pavement Engineering

CEE 550 Highway Geometric Design

CEE 551 Traffic Engineering

CEE 552 Intelligent Transportation Systems

CEE 553 Travel Demand Modeling

CEE 554 Urban Public Transportation

CEE 555 Highway Traffic Safety

CEE 558 Traffic Engineering Research

CEE 595 Special Problems in Civil Engineering

CEE 598 Project

CEE 599 Thesis

Note: Many other transportation engineering courses not included in the catalogue can be offered under the title of CEE 595 Special Problems in Civil Engineering based on the students’ needs.

Master's Examination

For students who take the six semester hours of research on a transportation engineering thesis, a final oral examination is required upon completion of the thesis. Students who plan to pursue Ph. D. studies after earning their master's degree are encouraged to take the thesis option.