Degree Structure
College
Engineering
Department
Civil And Environmental Engineering
Level
Graduate Masters
Study System
Courses and Theses
Total Credit Hours
33 Cr. Hrs.
Duration
2-4 Years
Intake
Fall and Spring
Language
English
Study Mode
Full Time and Part Time
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Degree Overview
Civil Engineering is a vital profession in the development of cities and societies. Civil Engineers are involved in the planning, analysis, design, and problem solving of a variety of projects that directly serve the needs of societies for buildings, bridges, roads, water supply systems, dams, canals, sanitation systems, environmental protection systems, and risk management systems. Civil engineering includes a variety of sub-disciplines, including environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, municipal or urban engineering, water resources engineering, materials engineering, coastal engineering, surveying, and construction engineering. To meet the demands of the rapid developments in the field, civil engineers must be up to date in their knowledge, motivated self-educators, and involved in lifelong learning.
The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Sharjah offers a Master of Science in Civil Engineering (MSCE) Program that prepares graduates to confidently confront current and future challenges in an exciting profession and equip them with advanced knowledge, practical skills, knowledge discovery, and application skills. The MSCE program is officially accredited by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
The Department has well-qualified faculty and lecturers with many years of academic and practical experience both regionally and internationally. The expertise of the academic staff spans the main disciplines of modern civil & environmental engineering. In addition, the department has laboratory facilities that are furnished with state-of-the-art equipment and analytical instruments in support of advanced experimental work for teaching, research, and community service. The laboratories are also staffed with qualified and well-trained laboratory assistants, technicians, and engineers.
The MSCE Program offers two broad specialization streams (areas) with optional concentration areas within the streams, as follows:
1. Structural Systems Engineering Stream, with the following concentration areas:
a. Structural Engineering.
b. Materials & Construction Engineering.
c. Geotechnical Engineering.
2. Infrastructure Systems Engineering Stream, with the following concentration areas:
a. Environmental Engineering.
b. Water Resources Engineering.
c. Transportation Engineering.
The two specialization streams enhance the interdisciplinary nature of the MSCE Program, which helps students to get advanced knowledge, practical skills, and knowledge discovery and application skills in more than one area of civil engineering specialization. This equips students with the means to confront current and future challenges in an exciting multidisciplinary civil engineering profession, which requires specialized and advanced knowledge, and skills in more than one area in civil engineering. Completing the requirements of a concentration in a particular stream requires completing at least two (2) Courses in the concentration area + completing the Thesis course in the concentration area appropriate to the chosen stream. Students who wish to have a particular concentration area recognized in their transcripts need to make a request in writing to the Department during the final semester of their studies.
What You Will Learn
The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Sharjah offers a Master of Science in Civil Engineering (MSCE) Program that prepares graduates to confidently confront current and future challenges in an exciting profession and equip them with advanced knowledge, practical skills, knowledge discovery, and application skills.
The MSCE Program offers two broad specialization streams (areas) with optional concentration areas within the streams, as follows:
1. Structural Systems Engineering Stream, with the following concentration areas:
a. Structural Engineering.
b. Materials & Construction Engineering.
c. Geotechnical Engineering.
2. Infrastructure Systems Engineering Stream, with the following concentration areas:
a. Environmental Engineering.
b. Water Resources Engineering.
c. Transportation Engineering.
The two specialization streams enhance the interdisciplinary nature of the MSCE Program, which helps students to get advanced knowledge, practical skills, and knowledge discovery and application skills in more than one area of civil engineering specialization.
University Requirements
College Requirements
Degree Requirements
I - General Compulsory Courses
Students must take the following three general courses:
| Course No. | Course Title | Credits | Prerequisite |
| 0401564 | Environmental Impact Assessment and Risk Analysis | 3 | Grad Standing |
| 0401509 | Advanced Numerical Methods | 3 | Grad Standing |
| 0401506 | Applied Engineering Statistics | 3 | Grad Standing |
II - Specialized Compulsory Courses
The MSCE Program is comprised of two major streams (general specialization) namely, structural engineering and infrastructure engineering. Under these general specializations, there are areas of concentration (shown below) where the student has the option to choose one of these concentration areas under his major stream.
- Structural Systems Engineering Stream, with the following concentration areas:
- Structural Engineering.
- Materials & Construction Engineering.
- Geotechnical Engineering.
- Infrastructure Systems Engineering Stream, with the following concentration areas:
- Environmental Engineering.
- Water Resources Engineering.
- Transportation Engineering.
The students must select three (3) courses from the following two lists of specialized courses listed under the Structural Systems Engineering and Infrastructure Systems Engineering general specializations.
Structural Systems Engineering Stream
| Course No. | Structural Engineering Concentration | Credits |
| 0401511 | Advanced Structural Mechanics | 3 |
| 0401512 | Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering | 3 |
| 0401513 | Advanced Behavior & Design of Concrete Structures | 3 |
| 0401514 | Advanced Structural Steel Design | 3 |
| Course No. | Materials & Construction Engineering Concentration | Credits |
| 0401531 | Advanced Concrete Technology | 3 |
| 0401532 | Advanced Materials in Construction | 3 |
| 0401533 | Cost Analysis for Construction Projects | 3 |
| 0401534 | Management of Construction Projects | 3 |
| 0401535 | Infrastructure Planning and Management | 3 |
| Course No. | Geotechnical Engineering Concentration | Credits |
| 0401552 | Advanced Geotechnical Engineering | 3 |
| 0401553 | Soil Improvement | 3 |
| 0401554 | Soil Dynamics | 3 |
Infrastructure Systems Engineering Stream
| Course No. | Environmental Engineering Concentration | Credits |
| 0401551 | Environmental Geotechnology | 3 |
| 0401561 | Water Quality Engineering | 3 |
| 0401562 | Wastewater Treatment and Reuse | 3 |
| 0401563 | Unit Operations in Environmental Engineering | 3 |
| Course No. | Water Resources Engineering Concentration | Credits |
| 0401541 | Fluvial Hydraulics | 3 |
| 0401542 | Mathematical Hydrology | 3 |
| 0401543 | Water Resources Planning & Management | 3 |
| 0401544 | Hydraulic Structures | 3 |
| Course No. | Transportation Engineering Concentration | Credits |
| 0401521 | Traffic Flow Theory | 3 |
| 0401522 | Applied Traffic Operations | 3 |
| 0401523 | Urban Transportation Planning | 3 |
| 0401524 | Intelligent Transportation Systems | 3 |
The list of specialized courses is categorized based on the concentration areas. The student can select any course related to his/her stream. However, for the student to be qualified for the concentration area in a particular stream, he/she should complete a minimum of two out of the three required specialized courses in his/her area of concentration in addition to the thesis.
III - Elective Courses
Student must take and complete two (2) elective courses. Courses in this category are selected by the student in coordination with the supervisor from any one (or combination) of the following:
- Graduate course(s) offered by the department.
- Up to two graduate-level courses from outside the department subject to department approval (i.e., department approval based on the recommendation of advisor and graduate studies committee).
- Courses selected from the following list:
| Course No. | Course Title | Credits | Prerequisite |
| 0401505 | Advanced Applied Engineering Mathematics | 3 | 1440261 |
| 0401507 | Buildings, Energy & Health | 3 | Graduate Standing |
| 0401508 | Finite Element Methods | 3 | 0401310 |
| 0401519 | Advanced Topics in Structural Engineering | 3 | Depends on Topic |
| 0401529 | Advanced Topics in Transportation Engineering | 3 | - |
| 0401539 | Advanced Topics in Construction and Materials | 3 | - |
| 0401549 | Advanced Topics in Environmental & Water Resources Engineering | 3 | - |
| 0401559 | Advanced Topics in Geotechnical Engineering | 3 | - |
| 0401589 | Independent Studies in Civil Engineering | 3 | - |
IV - Graduate Seminar
All students enrolled in the MSCE Program must successfully complete a zero Credits graduate seminar course, as follows:
| Course No. | Course Title | Credits | Prerequisite |
| 0401590 | Graduate Seminar | 0 | Grad Standing |
V - Master Thesis
All students must complete nine (9) Credits Research-Based Thesis, as follows:
| Course No. | Course Title | Credits | Prerequisite |
| 0401599 | Master Thesis | 9 | Completion of at least 12 credits |
Course Description
The course descriptions in this section will be grouped in relation to the discipline and area of specialization. The detailed description is also presented in the UOS graduate Catalog.
| 0401505 | Advanced Applied Engineering Mathematics | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | 0112261 Differential Equations for Engineers (or equivalent) | - |
| Complex functions, application of conformal mapping, Fourier series and integrations, special functions, Legendre polynomials, Bessel functions, Laplace Transforms and its application to ODE's in engineering practice, Partial Differential Equations. | ||
| 0401506 | Applied Engineering Statistics | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | 0212281 Introduction to Probability and Statistics (or equivalent) | - |
| Moments and expectations of functions of single and multiple random variables. Taylor series expansion for approximating mean and variance of functions. Common probability distributions. Extreme Value Theory. Verification of distribution models. Linear and non-linear multiple regression analysis. Nomographs. Design of experiments and analysis of variance. Computer Simulation. | ||
| 0401507 | Buildings, Energy and Health | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | Graduate Standing | - |
| Solar Radiation, Shading Control, Daylight and Building Design, Human Comfort, Properties of Moist Air, Heat Transfer in Building Structures and Air Change and Natural Ventilation in Buildings. | ||
| 0401508` | Finite Element Methods | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | 0401310 Structural Analysis (or equivalent) | - |
| Theoretical basis of the finite element method. Finite element discretization, Formulation of Finite Elements for use in the solution of two-and three-dimensional problems. Plate-bending problems and shell problems. Computer implementations and Applications. | ||
| 0401509 | Advanced Numerical Methods | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | 0401405 Numerical Methods (or equivalent) | - |
| Numerical differentiation and integration, Solution of linear and differential equations related to structural engineering, problems in structural dynamics, Initial value problems. Newmark's method. Series methods, finite method and energy methods applied to problems in Civil Engineering. | ||
| 0401511 | Advanced Structural Mechanics | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | 0401310 Structural Analysis (or equivalent) | - |
| Studies of stress and strain, failure theories, and yield criterion, flexure and torsion theories for solid and thin-walled members and energy methods. | ||
| 0401512 | Structural Dynamic and Earthquake Engineering | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | 0401243 Dynamics & 0401310 Structural Analysis (or their equivalents) | - |
| Dynamic behavior of structural systems of one or more degree of freedom; transient, steady state, and modal responses; nonlinear structural response, distributed-parameter systems; analysis and design of earthquake-resistant structures, including simplified seismic code procedures. | ||
| 0401513 | Advanced Behavior & Design of Concrete Structures | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | 0401314 Reinforced Concrete Design 1 | - |
| Study of flexural, shear, torsion, combined forces, creep, shrinkage, deflection, limit analysis and design applied to beams and frames; moment redistribution; yield-line theory of slabs; deflection of two-way edge supported and flat slabs; behavior and design of brackets, corbels, bearing walls, shear walls and beam-column joints. | ||
| 0401514 | Advanced Structural Steel Design | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | 0401418 Steel Design (or equivalent) | - |
| Bolted and welded connections, Building Connections, Rigid Steel frames, elastic and plastic design methods, supports of rigid frames, composite design. | ||
| 0401519 | Advanced Topics in Structural Engineering | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | Graduate Standing and Consent of the instructor | - |
| Subject matter varies from semester to semester, depending on the interest of the students and the importance of the topic to the region as well as depending on the specialties of the instructor. | ||
| 0401521 | Traffic Flow Theory | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | 0401321 Transportation Engineering (or equivalent) | - |
| Introduction to elements of traffic flow theory including principles of traffic stream characteristics, capacity, queuing theory, and shock waves; application of traffic flow theory to freeway and arterial traffic flow problems. | ||
| 0401522 | Applied Traffic Operations | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | 0401321 Transportation Engineering (or equivalent) | - |
| Application of traffic simulation models to the design and operations of traffic facilities, including intersection, arterials, and freeways; assessment of traffic signal timing strategies and freeway management and control strategies. | ||
| 0401523 | Urban Transportation Planning | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | 0401321 Transportation Engineering (or equivalent) | - |
| Concepts and methods of transportation planning, including network modeling, travel demand forecasting, systems evaluation of multi-modal transportation systems and operations of public transportation systems. | ||
| 0401524 | Intelligent Transportation Systems | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | 0401321 Transportation Engineering (or equivalent) | - |
| Concept and implementation of ITS; integrated ITS infrastructure; technical and institutional components of integrated ITS infrastructure; system architecture, instrumentation, communications, and implementation. | ||
| 0401529 | Advanced Topics in Transportation Engineering | (3-0:3) |
| Prerequisite: | Depends on Topic | - |
| Subject matter varies from semester to semester, depending on the interest of the students and the importance of the topic to the region as well as depending on the specialties of the instructor. | ||
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