Concurrent Masters Program in Civil Engineering and Planning

Transportation Systems Focus Area

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:

  • 84 units of study (ten 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 in each program (see below); and
  • enough units of approved electives to meet the minimum total requirement of 84 units

The Comprehensive Exam (All Course) option requires completing:

  • 84 units of study;
  • a capstone planning requirement (either a professional report, a planning practicum; or a comprehensive exam);
  • required core courses in each program (see below); and
  • enough units of approved electives to meet the minimum total requirement of 84 units

Program Core Courses
All students focusing on Transportation Systems are required to take seven CEE core courses (28 units) and seven PPD core courses (28 units), and a capstone requirement, as follows:


CEE Core Courses
(16 units)
  1. CEE 220A Travel Demand Analysis I (4 units)
  2. CEE 221A Transportation Systems Analysis I (4)
  3. CEE 228A Urban Transportation Networks I (4)
  4. CEE 283 Mathematical Methods in Engineering Analysis (4)

CEE Core Electives
Three CEE core elective courses (12 units total), one course each from three of the following options:
  1. CEE 224A Transportation Data Analysis (4 units)
  2. CEE 225A or CEE 225B Transportation Planning Models I,II (4,4)
  3. CEE 226A Traffic Flow Theory I (4)
  4. CEE 229A Traffic Systems Operation and Control I (4)
  5. Econ 282A or Econ 282B Transportation Economics I,II (4,4)

PPD Core Courses
(28 units)
  1. PPD 202 History of Urban Planning (4)
  2. PPD 203 Theoretical Foundations of Planning (4)
  3. PPD 204 Design and Planning Graphics: Fundamentals (4)
  4. PPD 206 Microeconomic Analysis for Urban Planning (4)
  5. One PPD planning law course: 207 or 252 (4)
  6. One PPD urban settlements course: 208, 242, 244, or 246 (4)
  7. One PPD planning methods course: 215, 220, 223, or 228 (4)

Capstone Requirement
(8 units)
  1. PPD 292 Professional Report and PPD 299 Independent Study (4,4), or
  2. PPD 294A-B Urban Planning Practicum I,II (4,4), or
  3. PPD 299 Independent Study (4,4) and Comprehensive Exam; or
  4. Thesis: PPD 297 Research Design and PPD299 Independent Study (4,4) or CEE 296 (8 units)

Electives may include as many as eight units of independent studies or approved undergraduate courses, but no redundancy is allowed in program classes. The MSCE Thesis Option requires a minimum of 28 units of non-research graduate courses (200-289); the MSCE Comprehensive Exam Option requires a minimum of 40 units of non-research graduate courses (200-289). For course descriptions, see the UCI General Catalogue.

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