Research Area Requirements

Core Area: Resilience Fundamentals

1. • The student should demonstrate knowledge of foundational concepts in resilience, infrastructure, and related key tools/concepts.

   • The recommended ENCE course that addresses this knowledge is: ENCE 632 - Resilience of Infrastructure Systems

   • If necessary, the student and advisor may identify an alternative course, such as:

     1. PLCY 699Z - Energy Policy

     2. GEOG 630 - Climate, Human Energy, and Policy

     3. GEOG 788B - Coupled Human and Natural Systems

Core Area: Hazard and Threat Assessment

• The student should demonstrate knowledge related to the assessment of natural or human-induced hazards/threats.

• Relevant hazards/threats are based on the student's research and professional interests.

• The student should take at least one course focused on the assessment of hazards or threats to the natural/built environment, selected in consultation with the advisor.

• Applicable courses include:

  1. ENCE 633 - Assessment of Natural Hazards for Engineering Applications

  2. ENCE 432 - Groundwater Hydrology

  3. ENCE 431 - Hydrologic Engineering

  4. ENCE 489B - Land-Atmosphere Interactions in Hydrology

  5. ENCE 630 - Environmental and Water Resource Systems

  6. ENCE 631 - Hydrologic Analysis and Nonpoint Pollution Models

• In addition, hazard/threat-focused courses taken in other departments (e.g. Geology, Atmosphere and Oceanic Science, Fire Protection Engineering) may be appropriate.

Core Area: Risk Assessment and Modeling of Systems

• The student should demonstrate knowledge related to risk assessment, optimization, or the modeling of connected systems. 

• The student should take at least one course focused in this area, in consultation with their advisor.

• Applicable courses include:

  1. ENCE 622 - Project Risk Management

  2. ENCE 620 - Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics

  3. ENRE 670 - Probabilistic Risk Assessment

  4. ENCE 677 - OR Models for Transportation Systems Analysis

  5. ENME 610 - Engineering Optimization

  6. ENRE 657 - Telecommunications Systems Reliability

• Other relevant courses may be offered in Urban Studies and Planning, Systems Engineering, and other engineering departments.

Core Area: Data Analysis and Modeling

• The student should demonstrate knowledge related to data analysis and modeling (e.g. statistics, machine learning).

• The student should take at least one course focused in this area in consultation with their advisor.

• Courses in this area are available across the university. The selected course should align with the student's research and professional interests.

• Applicable courses include:

  1. ENCE 688J - Data Analysis in the Built Environment: An Introduction to R

  2. ENCE 689X - Statistical and Machine Learning Models for Natural Hazards Prediction

  3. ENCE 402 - Simulation and Design of Experiments for Engineers

  4. ENCE 689P - Data Mining and Machine Learning for the Built Environment

  5. ENCE 688M - Theory-Guided Machine Learning

  6. ENCE 633 - Assessment of Natural Hazards for Engineering Applications

  7. ENCE 489E - Data Assimilation and Data Analytics

  8. ENRE 640 - Collection and Analysis of Reliability Data (ENRE640) 

Core Area: Contexts for Resilience and Sustainability

1. ENCE 688T - Disaster Resilience Seminar

M.S students in this program must complete at three out of the five courses listed below:

1. ENCE 652 - Microbiological Principles of Environmental Engineering

2. ENCE 650 - Process Dynamics in Environmental Systems

3. ENCE 651 - Chemistry of Natural Waters

4. ENCE 431 - Hydrologic Engineering

5. ENCE 432 - Groundwater Hydrology

The M.S. students in this program must complete at least three out of the bundle of courses listed below. There is no limit on how many of the three required courses can be taken in each bundle.

• Design

  1. ENCE 641 - Advanced Foundation Engineering

  2. ENCE 741 - Earth Retaining Structures

  3. ENCE 710 - Steel Design

  4. ENCE 713 - Concrete Design

  5. ENCE 688W - Timber Design

  6. ENCE 717- Bridge Design

• Analysis

  1. ENCE 647 - Seepage and Slope Stability

  2. ENCE 640 - Advanced Soil Mechanics

  3. ENCE 610 - Structural Analysis

  4. ENCE 613 - Structural Dynamics

• Simulation

  1. ENCE 611 - Finite Element Methods

  2. ENCE 644 - Nondestructive Testing and Characterization of Materials

The M.S. students in this program must complete the following five core courses:

1. ENCE 627 - Project Risk Management

2. ENCE 661 - Project Cost Accounting & Finance

3. ENCE 662 - Fundamentals of Project Management

4. ENCE 664 - Legal Aspects of Engineering Design & Construction

5. ENCE 665 - Managing Project Teams: Improving Individual and Team Performance

M.S. students in this program must complete the following five core courses:

1. ENCE 670 - Highway Traffic Characteristics and Measurements

2. ENCE 672 - Regional Transportation Planning

3. ENCE 673 - Urban Transportation Planning

4. ENCE 677 - OR Models for Transportation Systems Analysis

5. ENCE 688I - Discrete Choice Analysis