Program Options
Students enrolled in the concurrent MSCE/MURP degree program choose between a
thesis option and a comprehensive exam option. The thesis option requires completing:
- 72 units of study (eight of which may be taken in conjunction with the thesis research);
- the completion of an original research project and the writing of a thesis to describe it;
- required core courses (see below); and
- enough units of approved electives to meet the total requirement of 72 units
The comprehensive exam option requires completing:
- 72 units of study;
- a professional report, which represents a substantial piece of planning practice,
as the capstone event;
- required core courses (see below); and
- enough units of approved electives to meet the total requirement of 72 units
Program Core Courses
All students focusing on Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources are required to
take eight CEE core courses (25-28 units) and eight PPD core courses (32 units), as follows:
CEE Core Courses
(10 units) |
- CEE 172 Groundwater Hydrology (4 units)
- CEE 176 Surface Water Hydrology I (3)
- CEE 283 Mathematical Methods in Engineering Analysis (3)
|
Core Electives
Five core elective courses
(15-18 units) |
- CEE 262 Environmental Chemistry II (3)
- CEE 263 Advanced Biological Treatment Processes (3)
- CEE 265 Advanced Physical and Chemical Treatment Systems (3)
- CEE 268 Pollution Prevention (3)
- CEE 273 Computer Tools for Watershed Modeling (3)
- CEE 274A Transport Phenomena in Saturated Porous Media (3)
- CEE 276 Surface Water Hydrology II (3)
- CEE 277 Transport in Rivers and Estuaries (3)
- CEE 278 Flow in Rivers and Estuaries (3)
- CEE 279A Computations in Environmental Hydraulics (3)
- CEE 279B Computations in Surface Water Hydrology (3)
- CEE 284 Engineering Decision and Risk Analysis (3)
- CEE 289 Analysis of Hydrologic Systems (3)
- U237 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (4)
- U238 Advanced Geographic Information Systems (4)
- ESS 212 Earth System Changes (4)
|
PPD Core Courses
(32 units) |
- U202 Planning History (4)
- U203 Theoretical Foundations of Planning (4)
- U206 Microeconomic Analysis (4)
- One PPD planning law course: U207 or U252
- One PPD urban settlements course: U228 or U223 or U246
- U280A and U280B Urban Planning Studio (4,4)
- U292 Professional Report (4)
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Electives may include as many as eight units of independent studies or approved
undergraduate courses, but no redundancy is allowed with core classes. Course
descriptions are on the Civil Engineering and
Planning, Policy, and Design web sites.
